The Randall Knife by Guy Clark
The Randall Knife by Guy Clark

The Randall Knife

Guy Clark * Track #5 On Better Days

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The Randall Knife by Guy Clark

Performed by
Guy Clark
Produced by
Rodney Crowell
Writed by
Guy Clark
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“The Randall Knife” was written by Guy Clark about his father and what he meant to him. It uses the same melody of another Guy Clark song, “Let Him Roll” from his debut 1975 album Old No. 1.

The Randall Knife Lyrics

[Verse 1]
My father had a Randall knife, my mother gave it to him
When he went off to World War II to save us all from ruin
Now if you've ever held a Randall knife, you know my father well
And if a better blade was ever made, it was prob'ly forged in hell

[Verse 2]
My father was a good man, he was a lawyer by his trade
And only once did I ever see him misuse the blade
Well, it almost cut his thumb off when he took it for a tool
Ah, the knife was made for darker things, you could not bend the rules

[Verse 3]
Well, he let me take it camping once on a Boy Scout jamboree
And I broke a half-an-inch off tryin' to stick it in a tree
Well, I hid it from him for a while, but the knife and he were one
And he put it in his bottom drawer without a hard word won
There it slept and there it stayed for twenty some-odd years
Sort of like Excalibur except waiting for a tear

[Verse 4]
My father died when I was forty and I couldn't find a way to cry
Not because I didn't love him, not because he didn't try
Well, I'd cried for every lesser thing: whiskey, pain, and beauty
But he deserved a better tear and I was not quite ready

[Verse 5]
So we took his ashes out to sea and poured 'em off the stern
And then threw the roses in the wake of everything we'd learned
And when we got back to the house, oh they asked me what I wanted
Not the law books, not the watch, ooh I need the thing he's haunted
Ooh my hand burned for the Randall knife there in the bottom drawer
And I found a tear for my father's life and all that it stood for

The Randall Knife Q&A

Who wrote The Randall Knife's ?

The Randall Knife was written by Guy Clark.

Who produced The Randall Knife's ?

The Randall Knife was produced by Rodney Crowell.

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