Posted on 04/24/2025 7:11:38 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
More timely than ever, its's Grandpa Jones singing about a true evil as only he could.
“Hey, Grandpa..., what’s fer dinner?”
If only Grandpa Jones could see the modern-day democrat party, he’d sing a different tune.
Great one. Thx!
I also like the versions by Lulubelle & Scotty and Carson Robison, also from 1952.
Thanks for posting this. I remember it from a long, long time ago. It’s too bad we ignored Grandpa’s advice over the past 75 years.
Grandpa Jones mentions the House and Senate investigations of Soviet espionage and subversion, the Truman scandals (”taking bribes and dressing up their wives in mink”), inflation, and government overreach (”our government is bigger than it ever was today”)—the same sort of Democrat-generated problems that bedevil us today.
Truly an American original. When Marshall was only 22 he was a banjo player at a radio station in Boston. His grumpiness before the morning show made one of the staff affectionally call him "grandpa". Jones liked the nickname so much that he turned it into a stage persona. And that's how "Grandpa Jones" came about. He played the character for 63 years. All that time he never wore makeup as Grandpa. He let himself age into the role.
They don't make guys like him anymore.
The marxist trash should have been taken out in the 50’s, before the red virus spread
I met his daughter, Alisa, when we were kids. She was staying with our next door neighbor for a short time. I’m not sure why. I don’t know if she’d remember me or not. We were pretty young. We played with dolls and climbed trees. She talked about her home in the holler. I didn’t know what a holler was at the time. I thought he was her Grandpa but he was really her father. As a kid, that was confusing. Why would you call someone Grandpa if he was your Dad? It’s still a funny thing to remember.
Them was the days!
He sure was right on the money
I had never heard that before. It’s great!!
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