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Artist: Tody Castillo
Canonical path: /tody-castillo/old-rodriguez
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Old Rodriguez
Read Old Rodriguez lyrics by Tody Castillo on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Old Rodriguez
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Old Rodriguez doesn’t look so hot
He doesn’t come around anymore
And he sleeps all the time
He went back to the war
In the South Pacific Islands
He flew in gliders at night
And watched the natives for their warning sign
That’s my grandad
He lived a century long
And towards the end there
He traveled back in time
He went back to the ranch
And reconnected with his old man
He worked the fields in the day
Then home to dinner with his mother
Then there are the ones that go too soon
We live in the silence of their wake
And I know we’ll be there soon
But in the silence of their wake
Is where we live
I wonder if he ever heard about
Ever heard about cargo cults
If I could I would’ve asked him myself
Did you ever hear of cargo cults
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Tody Castillo performs "Old Rodriguez", and this lyric page sits inside the Tody Castillo catalog on LyroVerse.
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