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A meaningful 70th birthday gift for your grandpa
Give his stories a place in the birthday toast
“Tell It Again”
A fish that grows in every telling and grandkids keeping score make this seventieth-birthday example an affectionate portrait of a storyteller. Your gift can enjoy his favorite tales while also thanking him for the less-told work that held the family up.
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Tell It Again
70th Birthday · 3:38
The story
The fish was twelve inches in 1990; it's a marlin now. The army prank gains a man every telling, and the grandkids sit cross-legged keeping score of what's true while cedar shavings pile at his boots.
What he never tells: the years he worked so they'd have stories at all. For the grandpa at seventy whose stories the family knows by heart — and requests anyway.
The lyrics
Pull up a chair, everybody — he's clearing his throat.
The fish was twelve inches in 'ninety — it's a marlin by now, the army prank gets one man bigger every time you tell it loud. You taught us all to drive on gravel, white-knuckled in an empty lot.
Some families have a TV. We've got you.
Tell it again, Grandpa — the long way this time, the fish, the storm of 'sixty-nine. We know every word and we don't care — the best part's watching you get there. Seventy years of stories true enough — tell it again. Don't leave nothing out.
You whittle while you're talking, cedar shavings at your boots, the grandkids sit cross-legged, counting how much of it is true. Here's the part you never tell: the years you worked so we'd have stories.
Some families have a TV. We've got the real thing.
Tell it again, Grandpa — the long way this time, the fish, the storm of 'sixty-nine. We know every word and we don't care — the best part's watching you get there. Seventy years of stories true enough — tell it again. Don't leave nothing out.
One day we'll tell them for you, and we'll lie just like you taught us — the fish gains an inch a year. That's how legends stay fed.
Tell it again, Grandpa — the long way this time, the fish, the storm of 'sixty-nine. We know every word and we don't care — the best part's watching you get there. Seventy years of stories true enough — tell it again. Don't leave nothing out.
Pull up a chair, everybody. He's just getting started.
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