Top Songs By Loudon Wainwright III
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Loudon Wainwright III
Vocals
David Mansfield
Violin
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Loudon Wainwright III
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Jeffrey Lesser
Mixing Engineer
Mike Kappus
Executive Producer
Bob Ludwig
Mastering Engineer
Steve McLoughlin
Assistant Recording Engineer
Michael Cacoso
Assistant Recording Engineer
Andy Grassi
Assistant Recording Engineer
Michael Gilbert
Assistant Recording Engineer
Louis Alfred
Assistant Recording Engineer
Cerina Lynn
Assistant Recording Engineer
Lyrics
There are pictures on the piano, pictures of the family,
Mostly my kids but there's an old
Picture of you and me.
You were five and I was six In 1952;
That was forty years ago, how could it be true?
We were sitting outside drawing
At a table meant for cards,
And it must have been in autumn,
Falling leaves in the front yard,
With a shoebox full of crayons,
Full of colors oh so bright,
In a picture in a plastic frame,
A snapshot black and white.
You were looking at my paper, watching what I drew;
It was natural: I was older,
Thirteen months more than you.
A brother and a sister, a little boy and girl,
And whoever took that picture
Captured our own world.
A brother needs a sister to watch what he can do,
To protect and to torture, to boss around, it's true;
But a brother will defend her
For a sister's love is pure,
Because she thinks he's wonderful
When he is not so sure.
In the picture there's a fender of our old Chevrolet
Or Pontiac, our dad would know, surely he could say;
But dad is dead and we grow old;
It's true that time flies by;
And in forty years the world has changed
As well as you and I.
Writer(s): Loudon Wainwright
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