[Verse 1] Down a dusty road in a little farm town Before the sun could paint the sky He'd be carrying milk down the road Working till the stars came by His daddy built Ideal Dairy first Then four brothers carried on the name From the cows to the bottles on the doorstep Every day was much the same [Pre-Chorus] But if a neighbor needed help along the way He'd set his own work down [Chorus] Everybody knew Woody The man with a wave and a ready smile Always somewhere helping somebody Going that extra mile Handing punch bags to the kids in town Or stopping just to talk awhile Everybody knew Woody And everybody felt like family when he smiled [Verse 2] They made ice cream the old-fashioned way The kind you still remember now Slush for summer afternoons And treats for every kid around He'd roll that old Divco down Main Street Standing tall and shaking hands While it crawled along the parade route Like it understood the plan [Pre-Chorus] And the grandkids knew when they came around There'd be another cone somehow [Chorus] Everybody knew Woody The man with a wave and a ready smile Always somewhere helping somebody Going that extra mile Handing punch bags to the kids in town Or stopping just to talk awhile Everybody knew Woody And everybody felt like family when he smiled [Bridge] He rode horses through the parades Beside his brothers year by year Built a life of honest work And held the people he loved near When his sweetheart left for heaven He carried on somehow Then found love again to share the road That life had given him [Final Chorus] Everybody knew Woody The man with a wave and a ready smile Always somewhere helping somebody Going that extra mile And when the Lord called him home at eighty-one The church doors couldn't hold the crowd Family, friends, and neighbors filled the room To say what they all knew now Everybody knew Woody Not because folks knew the dairy name But because he spent a lifetime Giving more than he took in return Everybody knew Woody And his kindness still rolls through this town [Outro] Down a dusty road in a little farm town If you listen close, you'll find Some folks leave behind a business Some leave memories in your mind But Woody left a thousand stories Scattered all around And they're still being told today In that little dairy town.
