I Still Sing The Old Songs - Lyrics - Tanya Tucker

Tanya Denise Tucker is an American female country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top 10 and Top 40 hits. She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973's "What's Your Mama's Name?" and "Blood Red and Goin' Down," 1975's "Lizzie and the Rainman," and 1988's "Strong Enough to Bend".

Grandpa I've been thinking bout you lately Wondering if you'd found your peace of mind I bet you'd be proud to know your grandsons never crossed that Mason Dixon line And I still sing the old songs that you taught me And I still pray to Jesus now and then And just like you I wish that he would save me To see the day the south will rise again Daddy wore his Purple Heart so proudly long before he turned into a man Buried with our flag across his casket I was still too young to understand And I still sing the old songs... Mama spent her last years in the garden while brother took his turn behind a gun Lord I'd give my life to find the freedom lost within the old songs that you sung And I still sing the old songs...