I Got The Guns Lyrics - Singles - Roger Creager

Roger Creager 

They are little more than a few old guns handed down the line. 

Once owned by my Nana and Papa, but now they are mine. 

They've been all the way to Utah, then back home to Texas again. 

They've seen Colorado, Wyoming, and the Grand Canyon. 

Hunting trips in the freezing snow and up before the sun. 

They're now apart of me, I got the guns. 

I never really got to know him I was much to young 

He died on the Corpus Christi Bay when I was one. 

A Christian man I barely knew, but he was oh so proud of me. 

He ran the nursery at the church for free 

"Amazing Grace how sweet the sound" he always sung 

Sometimes I can hear him when I fire them guns 

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I've seen tears in grown men's eyes when they speak of their granddad 

Then they laugh at how he spoiled then to the bone 

I don't have those memories that I can hold on to 

So I keep hanging on to his old guns 

Nana lived on a few more years until Christmas '79 

I thank God for those childhood memories of mine 

My sister told me in confidence her innocent secret birthday wish, 

"dear Lord bring Nana back to us" 

But instead she got her earrings old time clip-ons and she had fun 

Me, I was 8 years old and I got the guns 

I was only daughter's son, his pride and all his love 

Maybe someday if I try my best I'll be half the man he was 

He knew love lasted longer. The great depression only made him stronger 

He saved his pennied and prayed to God each night 

He knew how to weather hard times and showed us how to overcome 

I can feel his strength when I hold his guns 

Just and old bolt-action 16 gauge 

And my grandmother's 410 

A 270 that my dad fired once 

He brought a mule deer in