The best man that I ever knew
Met him back around the year of ninety-two
He was an older gentleman I would say
Could have been around the age of sixty-eight
As I sat and talk to him, mostly of his life and the things he could do
I knew that he was the best man I ever knew
He spent most of his life serving his country true
Doing his best at what he had to do
He went to war and return alive
Wishing that more came home and hadn’t died
Once he set his mind on what he wanted to do
There was nothing to stop him, not even you.
I grew to know him as a great friend
But now as a granddad more as back then
Now he is gone and laid to rest
Me with no regrets cause I knew him as the best
In Loving Memory, Granddaddy Riddle (1922-2009)