For the Man I've Known

When I was knee high to a grasshopper

My father said someday you'll be a man

And all the simple things I found to be confusing

I will grow to understand

Like how the songbird sings the morning in so sweetly

Fulfilling part of God's great plan

So I watched my youth unravel as I held on to my papa's hand

Singing hallelujah for the man I've known

Singing hallelujah for the man I've known

And he’s teaching me how, how to grow

Now we’ve seen beauty turn to ashes

But the hard times gave us hearts of gold

And we have kept a youthful spirit

While so many here amongst us have grown old

Just as the evergreen stands strong

Thorough the winter deeply rooted in the land

I have weathered many seasons as I held onto my papa’s hand

Singing hallelujah for the man I've known

Singing hallelujah for the man I've known

And he’s teaching me how, how to grow

And he’s teaching me how, just as the evergreen stands strong

Thorough the winter deeply rooted in the land

I have weathered many seasons as I held onto my papa’s hand