Оригинален текст
Words & Music By
Nick Granato
He once earned a living fishing these waters,
Out in the gulf, running the bay,
He remembers a time when the catch was abundant,
He says too many people have scared them away,
His face was all wrinkled and browned from the weather,
His hands were all calloused from years on the sea,
By his bench on the pier all the tourists passed by him,
Unaware this old man had made all this to be
Hes just an old cracker, who grew up on the island,
His grandfathers grandpa, drove the first pilings,
With a pioneers spirit, that runs in his blood
An original native Floridas son
He spoke of a time when life was quite different,
Long before money and greed had its way,
A place you could tell God had touched with his fingers,
Where you showed respect for the things Hed made
He said nowadays were surrounded by concrete,
High rises stretching to worship the sun,
He said theyre nothing to me
but just graves on the beaches,
Stones marking the places, where paradise was
Hes just an old cracker, who grew up on the island,
His grandfathers, grandpa, drove the first pilings,
Oh the things that hes witnessed,
all the changing hes done.
An original legend Floridas son,
Now He morns for what its become Floridas son,
And the future sets in what was Floridas son
2001 Song Harbor Music/BMI