Mel Tillis - Baker Story

Romek lumber and supply buy were the builders by and my daddy said well if you need to go back to school he said you are you going into bakery shop after daddy I don't want to be a baker daddy has a little baby at the time and I won't be a baker he said that he said well that's it he said I won't pay $18 a week and ten dollars of any room and board as a daddy upper tip that a few seconds ago it was freezing he said an 8-3 no more I'm gonna problem Street post office get the mail captured yes sir and it went across the street and it was Air Force recruiter guy down there but have only two blue around hitman boys left and under Sam has not that we won't chew and I thought that was supposed to be won't let them so uh I joined the Air Force now Christmas Day mom and dad they took him to the train station and the best pomades to put me on a train wave goodbye there was a young man from paraglider a a black man our boy is about 18 or 19 my age and uh and I had disorders cuz I I did ROTC Nexen his orders and my orders to get us to San Antonio Texas and he didn't say anything and I didn't say anything for about a hundred miles I got I got to wondering if you think at all and I guess you wonder if I could talk finally he said something and uh what he could say I couldn't say and what I could say he could take each daughter to hey let's go take this oh but we finally made it in San Antonio Texas and out and we had our basics there and and it went oh about three weeks into it they caught us all in and they gave us these aptitude test I found out Nabokov even suited for so I took my test and I waited for my order to come back to kill me you know that that's gonna be a pilot or a clerk typist truth whatever not waited and in all my buddies that's 80 of us in that flat bottom from Wisconsin eco be real and there's about 80 of us and alum had their orders with me and I waited and waited in a way don't mind and find got my orders it said report across a town San Antonio Texas the fourth time Houston at the 4th army base my date is June 11 I think about that but anyway I spent the four years in the Air Force with a big rush or event after in case you cooking panels and donuts

Channel: RoMacLumber

Views: 55,781

Rating: 4.8540144 out of 5

Keywords: Mel Tillis, Country Music, Leesburg, Legend, Grand Ole Opry, Ro-Mac Lumber, Baker (Profession), Country Music (Musical Genre)

Id: K8UBy2A57_M

Length: 3min 58sec (238 seconds)

Published: Fri May 04 2012