[Intro] Some men teach with hardened words Some men teach with scars Some men show you different things By pushing you way too far And though the years may change us Some things will never fade Lessons learned from crazy uncles And the men those lessons made [Verse 1] Every boy needs an Uncle Jimmy To teach him what he shouldn’t do fighting, drinking, smoking, cussin he Taught me some good things too I've looked up to him all my life And I still hold him with regard Lessons he taught me I now teach Though some don’t seem too smart [Chorus] Raise one up for Uncle Jimmy And the wild way that he’d grin For every crazy thing he did That turned boys into men When fear comes running at you And life don’t treat you right stand your ground, laugh out loud And show it you came to fight [Verse 2] Like that time we went fox huntin’ It was still the middle of the night Off the cuff and by surprise I guess to test my fight or flight we dropped down in this deep hole left behind where an oak tree fell He chuckled when he said shut up I didn’t know he’d unleash hell he turned on the rabbit distress call After a couple minutes lapsed Turned it off and all went silent a hundred fox overhead passed [Verse 3] I could feel somethin watching Staring down and looking at me He turned a light on and lit the night Wasn’t just them he wanted to see I will never forget what he told me when fear comes for you at night “this lesson turns boys to men only fear when you don’t fight” [Bridge] Now when life gets way too heavy And the road gets mean and long I hear his laugh come rolling back Like a backwoods country song he Might have been plum crazy But somehow he got it right said don’t let fear decide your name You give it your best fight [Final Chorus] Raise one up for Uncle Jimmy And the wild way that he’d grin For every crazy thing he did That turned boys into men When fear comes running at you And life don’t treat you right stand your ground, laugh out loud And show it you came to fight [Outro] So here’s to the uncles who scared us And made us stand our ground Who tossed us into deep end To show ourselves we wouldn’t drown I reckon love ain’t always soft And wisdom ain’t necessarily clean But every boy needs an Uncle Jimmy To learn courage and what crazy means
