for the man i ve known

Jp Cooper

When I was knee high to a grasshopper
My father said someday you ll be a man

And all the simple things I found to be confusing
I will grow to understand
Like how the songbird sings the morning in so sweetly
Fulfilling part of God s great plan
So I watched my youth unravel
as I held on to my papa s hand

Singing hallelujah for the man I ve known
Singing hallelujah for the man I ve known
And he s teaching me how, how to grow

Now we ve seen beauty turn to ashes
But the hard times gave us hearts of gold
And we have kept a youthful spirit
While so many here amongst us have grown old
Just as the evergreen stands strong
Thorough the winter deeply rooted in the land
I have weathered many seasons
as I held onto my papa s hand

Singing hallelujah for the man I ve known
Singing hallelujah for the man I ve known
And he s teaching me how, how to grow

And he s teaching me how
just as the evergreen stands strong
Thorough the winter deeply rooted in the land
I have weathered many seasons
as I held onto my papa s hand