Grasshopper Mac Clain Songtext
von Jimmy Dean

Me and that navy ain′t speaking
And sailing I tell you I'm through
On the advice of a doc I got me a shock
I had to have something to do
These nerves I got are from soaking too long
When a ship got hit by a plane
And right here about four years back
I met Grasshopper MacClain

The sun was a burning and the desert red hot
When his mother drove in with a flat
She went inside to cool off with a beer
And I saw her kid in the back
He lay on the seat in the sweltering heat
With hair the color of flame
A red headed mite but smiling and bright
Was little old Grasshopper MacClain


I fixed her tire and was toting him round
When she asked me how much she owed
I just laughed and said oh I′ll settle for him
And to my surprise she drove off down the road
I figured she'd sober and come hurrying back
But for three long years she never came
And all that time I was mother and dad
To little old Grasshopper MacClain

I'd tell him of ships I′d sailed on the seas
When I put him to bed at night
And that freckle faced kid was sharp as a tack
And quick as a mate for a fight
I thought I′d wait till he growed a bit
And let him pick out his own name
One day he came in with a bug in his hand
And he said me Grasshopper MacClain

Oh he'd mimic my walk and he′d mimic my talk
Like my shadow he'd just tag me around
He even had to be checked every time I was checked
By the navy doc over in town
The doc would laugh and thump his little old chest
And say feller you′re right as rain
Then he'd turn to me and tell me that I′d be a new man
Thanks to Grasshopper MacClain


I guess you wonder why I'm telling you this
Well that's why I′m here doing time
For a bang and a sheriff and a red headed dame
That came to take what was mine
Oh but you should have seen the way he fought
You could tell that kid was navy trained
But this lonely cell wouldn′t be so much like hell
If I only had Grasshopper MacClain