Song Description

Mainstream country with a story that will cause you to evaluate what's really important in life... (Work demo)

Lyrics

Jack the Shack Man ©2001 Ronald G Brown

Verse:

A quarter mile down the road from me, in a rickety one-room shack
Lived a poor old man with nothing more than the clothes that hung on his back
He didn't seem to have any family and he really didn't have any friends
But if you'd catch his eye, he'd wave and say hi
He was Jack, the shack man from down around the bend


Chorus: He'd say:
I've got the tall trees standin' over me
A blue-jay feedin' a family
And a million crickets singin' me off to sleep
I've got a little caterpillar on a leafy vine
The moon and stars, well they're all mine
He'd say, "You feel bad for me but don't worry how I feel?
Cause ol? Jack, the shack man has more than most ever will"

Verse:

He did his reading by candle-light and his favorite book was John
And if you'd listen close you could hear each verse as he read 'em out loud and strong
No running water, no TV and he never had a telephone
Just a flickering light made life alright
In that shack that Jack called home


Chorus: He'd say:
I've got the tall trees standin' over me
A blue-jay feedin' a family
And a million crickets singin' me off to sleep
I've got a little caterpillar on a leafy vine
The moon and stars, well they're all mine
He'd say, "You feel bad for me but don't worry how I feel?
Cause ol? Jack, the shack man has more than most ever will

Bridge:

One night the shack burnt to the ground and I knew old Jack was gone
'Said the only thing that didn't burn was that Bible's Book of John
They said he passed on in his sleep though I know a part of him stayed
Cause every once in a while... the crickets quiet down
And a voice in my heart will say?


Chorus: I've got the tall trees standin' over me
A blue-jay feedin' a family
And a million crickets singin' me off to sleep
I've got a little caterpillar on a leafy vine
The moon and stars, well they're all mine
"Oh, you feel bad for me but don't worry how I feel?
Cause ol? Jack, the shack man, has more than most ever will"

Yeah, ol? Jack, the shack man, had more? than I ever will?


Ron Brown 412-596-5831 HookstownBrown@yahoo.com