My grandmother lives in a trailer in Immokolee My only living grandmother lives down in Immokolee Well she's a non-migrant tomato picker I guess she's got a healthy ticker She still lives in that trailer in Immokolee She must be hitting oh round 80 years now She must be hitting round 'bout 80 years now I haven't seen her since I was 10 Long ago and way back when She must be hitting oh round 80 years now Evelyn Dumas lived just down the road She was my mother's mother and she lived just down the road In a little house with jalousie windows We'd watch All In The Family on a console television Most afternoons when I got out of school For 40 years she smoked 3 packs a day For 40 odd years she smoked 3 packs a day Well I was 17 when they found the cancer They removed a lung and she died soon after What a way to go, man, what a way She was a ranking member of her local AA She was a full-fledged member of her local AA With her little poodle Rusty, her faithful pet She helped dozens of people take them twelve steps She's still held in high regard to this very day I never knew neither of my grandpa's I never ever met neither two of my grandpa's One died early on of alcoholism The other one left soon after shooting his jizm And he ain't been seen since 1945 Well that's the story of all my grandparents A melodic synopsis of all my grandparents As you can tell I'm not to big on family trees It's like there's all of them and then there's me And pretty soon I'll be... A grandparent |