Schäffer the Darklord - Father lyrics

There is a house in a town called Brooks
And in ’45 a boy was born
And blessed with good looks
And charm, his father was Laverne Sr
But everybody called him "Jocko
" everybody called his new junior "Buddy"
And Buddy’s mother was Lottie Veronica
And after she’d had Nellie Diane
Buddy rounded out the family
When Jocko got a job with the county
It was time
To move the Schaffers into Corning
It was ‘59
And Buddy was a teen drawing hot rods
Listening to rock songs
Cracking jokes, but then it was not long
Before at 21, when the fun ended fast
For even Buddy’s bad ear couldn’t
Save him from the draft
And that’s when Buddy went to
Vietnam on his mission
To serve in the Airborne 101st Division
A helicopter gunner hovering above Saigon
Buddy from Iowa could see that
His childhood was gone

A class clown joker always looking for fun
A drinking smoker with a baby boy
He only had one and he is his father’s son
A smart-ass trouble maker since he was young
Hard-living sarcastic sharp-tongued son
Of a gun and I am my father’s son

Bud became a man among the
Battle and the madness but when he got back
He brought back some baggage and bad habit's
Scrapping, tossed out the local tavern
His palace and that is around the time
When Bud met Alice
In six months they were married, March of ‘71
And moved into a little house
With her 6-year-old son
It was three years before by
A stroke of fate, See
In ’74 when Bud and Alice made me
And his quartet dwelled for five
Years on 6th Street
He was working at the garage
Or sipping beers and fishing
Soon his habit's turned to problems
Booze and coke
Jocko passed away, Bud’s family unit broke
And after his divorce
He moved back in with his mom
And continued to use
A short fuse on a ticking bomb
Crashed some cars, broke some hearts, man
People are strange
Bud from Iowa could see it
Was time for a change

A class clown joker always looking for fun
A drinking smoker with a baby boy
He only had one and he is his father’s son
A smart-ass trouble maker since he was young
Hard-living sarcastic sharp-tongued son
Of a gun and I am my father’s son

By 1981, Dad’s life had grown messy
Then a woman named Ramona came
Along like a blessing lovely and kind
A sign that life could be better
But first and for himself he had
To get his act together
And that first step that he so
Needed in the worst way
He checked into rehab on
His son’s 10th birthday
Clean and sober, he’d never felt more alive
Moved to Des Moines with Ramona
Married in ‘85
He went from treatment straight to
Training and in ’90 became
A certified addiction counselor
A life with new aim
Worked in hospitals and prisons
Helping other troubled persons
His demons hadn’t beaten him
Instead they gave him purpose
Laverne Dean "Bud" Schaffer Jr is a survivor
A veteran and a healer
Mr fix-It like MacGuyver
A gamer and a runner and
A man with many titles
A bad motherfucker, my dad and my idol

A class clown joker always looking for fun
A drinking smoker with a baby boy
He only had one and he is his father’s son
A smart-ass trouble maker since he was young
Hard-living sarcastic sharp-tongued son
Of a gun and I am my father’s son

A class clown joker always looking for fun
A drinking smoker with a baby boy
He only had one and he is his father’s son
A smart-ass trouble maker since he was young
Hard-living sarcastic sharp-tongued son
Of a gun and I am my father’s son