Nose On the Grindstone 1
I have been listening lately to a great song from Tyler Childers – Nose On the Grindstone. The gist of the song is a son singing about the advice his father gave him. There’s no new ground plowed here, but then that seems to be the point. For as much as I try to make life complicated, and as much as it is, it occurs to me that the answers remain simple – if I let them be:
Daddy worked like a mule mining Pike County coal. He messed up his back couldn’t work any more.
He said one of these days you’ll get out of these hills. Keep your nose on the grindstone, and outta the pills.
See the ways of this world just bring you to tears. Keep the Lord in your heart you’ll have nothing to fear.
Live the best that you can and don’t lie and don’t steal. Keep your nose on the grindstone and outta the pills.