This Ain't Nothin

He was standing in the rubble of an old farmhouse outside Birmingham

When some on the scene reporter stuck a camera in the face of that old man

He said, "Tell the folks, please, mister, what are you gonna do

Now that this twister has taken all that's dear to you"

The old man just smiled and said

boy let me tell you something, this ain't nothing

He said, "I lost my daddy, when I was eight years old

That cave-in at the Kincaid mine left a big old hole

And I lost my baby brother, my best friend and my left hand

In a no win situation in a place called Vietnam

And last year I watched my loving wife, of fifty years waste away and die

We were holding hands when her heart of gold stopped pumping

So this ain't nothin'"

He said I learned at an early age

There's things that matter and there's things that don't

So if you're waiting here for me to cry

I hate to disappoint you boy, but I won't

Then he reached down in the rubble and picked up a photograph

Wiped the dirt off of it with the hand that he still had

He put it to his lips and said man she was something

But this ain't nothin'

He said, "I lost my daddy, when I was eight years old

That cave-in at the Kincaid mine left a big old hole

And I lost my baby brother, my best friend and my left hand

In a no win situation in a place called Vietnam

And last year I watched my loving wife, of fifty years waste away and die

We were holding hands when her heart of gold stopped pumping

So this ain't nothin'"

This ain't nothin' time won't erase

And this ain't nothin' money can't replace

He said, "You sit and watch your loving wife fifty years fighting for her life

Then you hold her hand til her heart of gold stops pumping

Yeah boy that's something

So this ain't nothin'

Yeah, this ain't nothin'"