What Would You Say?
Song by Michael Shynes
Grandpapa had a metal plate from his time served in the war
It used to pick up radio waves that he said were from the future
As little children we would gather round, to us he was a giant
But when it came to taking medicine the man was non compliant
He’d tell me wait, what would you say, if I could build a little vessel that could take us to another time and place
What would you say, if the burning of the engines could be powered by the smile on your face
What would you say, would you follow me follow me follow me follow me round the way
He'd laugh and say, but I’m too tired for that one today
He’d take us fishing at the local dam we would bike down from his house,
Telling stories of a captain he knew from his travels to the past
The cannonballs and muskets and the weapons they used were anything but modern
So grandpa brought grenades and proximity mines, together they ran the ocean
He’d tell us wait, what would you say, if I could build a little vessel that could take us to another time and place
What would you say, if the burning of the engines could be powered by the smile on your face
What would you say, would you follow me follow me follow me follow me round the way
He'd laugh and say, but I’m too tired for that one today
One day we went to visit, Grandpa wasn’t there
But I knew he kept the plans for the rocket ship underneath his lucky chair
Gonna spend every day and night, and make it my life’s work
To build it out to the letter, and fly him back to earth
I'd tell him wait, what would you say, if I could build a little vessel that could take us to another time and place
What would you say, if the burning of the engines could be powered by that smile on your face
What would you say, would you follow me follow me follow me follow me round the way
He winked to say, there’s a different ship I gotta take
It used to pick up radio waves that he said were from the future
As little children we would gather round, to us he was a giant
But when it came to taking medicine the man was non compliant
He’d tell me wait, what would you say, if I could build a little vessel that could take us to another time and place
What would you say, if the burning of the engines could be powered by the smile on your face
What would you say, would you follow me follow me follow me follow me round the way
He'd laugh and say, but I’m too tired for that one today
He’d take us fishing at the local dam we would bike down from his house,
Telling stories of a captain he knew from his travels to the past
The cannonballs and muskets and the weapons they used were anything but modern
So grandpa brought grenades and proximity mines, together they ran the ocean
He’d tell us wait, what would you say, if I could build a little vessel that could take us to another time and place
What would you say, if the burning of the engines could be powered by the smile on your face
What would you say, would you follow me follow me follow me follow me round the way
He'd laugh and say, but I’m too tired for that one today
One day we went to visit, Grandpa wasn’t there
But I knew he kept the plans for the rocket ship underneath his lucky chair
Gonna spend every day and night, and make it my life’s work
To build it out to the letter, and fly him back to earth
I'd tell him wait, what would you say, if I could build a little vessel that could take us to another time and place
What would you say, if the burning of the engines could be powered by that smile on your face
What would you say, would you follow me follow me follow me follow me round the way
He winked to say, there’s a different ship I gotta take