Everything is a little lonelier, since you checked out

I know it’s been twenty years dad but I’m just getting around

To show you, what I’ve become, and to tell you, wherever you are

Most of all thank you, for this guitar

I don’t think you knew I moved away, and let my hair grow long

Still writing songs every other day about trees, and time, and love

And I want to thank you for putting that pen in my hand

And I want to tell you, wherever you are, most of all thank you for this guitar

When heartbreak’s gone, and a new love comes along,

This wood and strings will pull be out a song

And I hear a new one coming on

Mom’s doing good has all those girls and one of them has a little baby boy

You can bet I’ll tell him one day about you, and all the joy that it brought you

To see this guitar in my life

And I’m going to tell him, that wherever you are, oh dad, wherever you are

He better thank you, oh and I want to thank you, we’re all gonna thank you, for this guitar