The Battaglia Song

I was not your family
I was a stranger to you once
But you treated me like we had the same blood

I drove up tp a cabin
To Wisconsin in the woods
We shot fireworks and drank til we felt good

And the sky was clear
In that summer air

You showed me so much kindness
I do not understand
Who puts that kinda soul inside a man
And you always say the same thing
We believe in you
It was a little thing for us
That we just wanted to do

The night I met your family
The night I met your friends
There were plates of buttered shrimp and hungry hands
And as the fireworks were dying
The whiskey shots were flying
At 2 am something is cooking in the oven

The sun is rising in the Eastern sky

You showed me so much kindness
I do not understand
Who puts that kinda soul inside a man
And you always say the same thing
We believe in you
It was a little thing for us
That we just wanted to do

Someday I’ll make you proud
As proud as I am now
When I think of that day I smile clear and loud
And I always say the same thing
God sent those folks to me
To clear some brush off of the path to Tennessee
And to help me be the man I want to be

You showed me so much kindness
I do not understand
Who puts that kinda soul inside a man
And you always say the same thing
We believe in you
It was a little thing for us
That we just wanted to do