I wasn't much more than a baby I thought he was a bear 
The way my daddy carried me around 
They said I learned to walk while holdin' on to just one finger 
On the hand of a man that stands at six-foot-three 
Not old enough to understand the meaning of depression 
Just something people talked about a lot 
My daddy wasn't one that tried to make no big impressions 
Just one heck of a man that worked for what he got 

They don't make men like my daddy anymore 
Guess they've thrown away the pattern through the years 
In a great big land of freedom at a time we really need 'em 
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore 

From the Johnson County coal camps to the hills of West Virginia 
My daddy worked down in the dark coal mines 
Education didn't count so much as what you had born in you 
Like the will to live and a dream of better times 
Daddy never took a handout we ate pinto beans a bacon 
But he worked to keep the wolf back from the door 
And it only proves one thing to me when folks start belly achin' 
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore 

They don't make men like my daddy anymore 
Guess they've thrown away the pattern through the years 
In a great big land of freedom at a time we really need 'em 
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore 
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore