Artist	Song
Grandpa Was a Carpenter	John Prine with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere	Bob Dylan with Happy Traum
Daddy and Home	Jimmie Rodgers
Bacholar Til I Die	Hank Williams, Sr.
You Were Gone	Archie Campbell & Gordie Tap
I'm My Own Grandpaw	Chet Atkins
My Walking Stick	Leon Redbone
Shall We Gather At the River	The Hee Haw Gospel Quartet
Fish and Whistle	John Prine
Talking Fishing Blues	Woody Guthrie
Fishin' Blues	Taj Mahal
Some Days There Just Ain't No Fish	Hoagy Carmichael
The Five-Pound Bass	Robert Earl Keen, Jr.
Mountain Dew	Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan
Angel from Montgomery	John Prine
I'll Fly Away	The Hee Haw Gospel Quartet

Comment:

A simple mix for a simple man, my Grandpa August. He was born in 1908 and died 5 years ago yesterday. I was not necessarily inspired by tornadoZ's fine effort for his grandmother, it pretty much came from the anniversary of his death and some thoughts from a recent visit with my other Grandpa.Grandpa was full of, in the words of Jack Nicholson, country witticisms. When he would show his wedding picture, he would say "that's the day I went to war." It was that sentiment that inspired me to pick the Hank and the last Prine. I must add that the first Prine also reminds me of my Grandma (pictured below) because she was a teacher, the first in her family to go to college, and bilingual German-English. On the other hand, Grandpa was a farmboy who had to leave school in the eighth grade when his dad got sick.Grandpa was not that interested in music, the most I ever saw was him watching Hee Haw, but that was more for the boobs than anything else, but good enough reason to include three songs from there. And I figured the Dylan/Cash duet was a good substitute for the Grandpa Jones original. He also liked the gospel shows on the Larry Rice channel, so two of those Hee Haw tunes killed both birds. Grandpa was a life-long Mason, though, and was the kind of man who was a Republican because Lincoln won the war. I remember that when spoke of my great-grandpa, his words sounded like that Jimmie Rodgers song.But, as you can tell, what Grandpa really liked was fishing. These are a few of my favorite fishing tunes, and that Hoagy Carmichael pretty much sums up Grandpa's outlook on life.The title comes from Grandpa's reaction to losing one of his grandchildren, my older cousin David, who died suddenly at 38.And the only song I haven't mentioned is the one that I quoted at Grandpa's funeral, when I said that we should strap ourselves to the tree with roots...

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