Another Man's Gold

I was watchin’ cartoons on a Saturday morning

And I heard daddy start the truck

I came runnin’ from the house and waved him down

Cause he was makin’ a run to the dump

We watched the Bears and licked ice cream cones

Take a little walk around

I’ll never forget what my daddy said

The day we pulled that bike from the ground

He said one man’s trash is another man’s gold

If it’s thrown away it’s free to take

A little oil she’ll be good to go

So I rode that bicycle home

Thumbs up, daddy honkin’ on the horn

I got my first job workin’ on a dairy farm

Drivin’ tractor and bailin’ hay

I’d have to circle around a bog in the ground

Where sat an old Mustang ‘58

One evenin’ I asked that farmer

Why that car was just wastin’ away

He said you can have it for free it don’t mean nothin’ to me

And I couldn’t help but think

One man’s trash is another man’s gold

What someone will throw away is a crying shame

So I towed that Mustang home

Till she could be restored

I got that engine to roar

And boy did that engine roar

It was an awkward blind date we met at a park

She had her little girl taggin’ along

A beautiful smile hadn’t been out in a while

She was a hard working single mom

In time I learned he’d left her

He said “I’m just way too young

To be having a kid, I’m not ready for this

If you keep it I’m good as gone”

He never looked back as she watched him go

She stood there crying in the rain till one January day

She had a beautiful baby girl

Tonight I tuck her in and read her stories

And hold her mama while the sunset glows

My two arms full of this man’s gold

What some men will throw away is a crying shame

Those girls make our house a home

Yeah my cup overflows

With this man’s gold

This man’s gold