Homemade Ice Cream Verse 1 Back when I was just a young’un Out where Bull Creek wandered by Cool and clear through Beneath those Texas summer skies When the daylight started fading And the evening settled in Momma’d bring the freezer out And we’d all gather once again Verse 2 Shelton, Vern, and the boys Were never very far away Clayton, Jerry Dale, and James Might show up most any day Momma and Vern would fix it Just the way they’d always done Mostly vanilla in the freezer But peaches when the fruit was ripe and done Chorus Homemade ice cream on a summer night Whip-poor-wills calling in the fading light Kids taking turns on the old hand crank Laughing and talking while the stars all sank A little salt water sneaking past the lid Made it taste even better than it already did Lord, I’d give most anything just to be Back making homemade icecream when we lived up the creek Verse 3 It fell to us kids to do the cranking Round and round we’d take our turn Seemed like that old freezer never Quite got finished, far as we learned Then the handle would get stubborn And the grown folks all would smile “Let it set a spell and harden up” So we’d wait a little while Chorus Homemade ice cream on a summer night Whip-poor-wills calling in the fading light Kids taking turns on the old hand crank Laughing and talking while the stars all sank A little salt water sneaking past the lid Made it taste even better than it already did Lord, I’d give most anything just to be Back making homemade icecreaam when we lived up the creek Bridge Cold enough to freeze your thinking Give you that old brain-freeze pain Sharp as lightning for a minute Then you’d dive right back again Funny how the years go flying Though back then they moved so slow Seems like there were thousands of those evenings But I know there couldn’t have been so Final Chorus Homemade ice cream on a summer night Whip-poor-wills singing till the morning light Neighbors, family, friends together Thinking those good times would last forever Now the faces live in memories And some have long since gone away But I can still hear that old freezer turning Every time I think of yesterday Tag Yeah, those nights out on Bull Creek With Clayton, Jerry Dale, and James Were some of the sweetest moments This old heart ever claimed.
