♫ Rodney Atkins - I've Been Watchin' You ♫

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Artist: Rodney Atkins
Song: Watching You
Album: If You're Going Through Hell

Rodney was born in Tennessee on March 28, 1969,in Knoxville, Tennessee, and put up for adoption not long after his birth. As an infant at the Holston Methodist Home for Children in Greeneville, Tenn., he was so sick that two couples who had taken him home returned him a few days later. A third couple from Cumberland Gap, Tenn., adopted him as well and, even though his ailments worsened, refused to give him up. His adoptive mother had been raised in a coal mining family near a tannery camp, and his dad survived an upbringing marked by poverty and episodes of abuse.

Signed to Curb Records since 1997, Atkins charted his first single on the Billboard country charts that year; however, he did not enter the charts again until late 2002, with the Top 40 single "Sing Along". Atkins eventually landed his first Top Five hit on the country music charts in 2003, with the single "Honesty (Write Me a List)" from his 2003 album Honesty.

If You're Going Through Hell, his second album, was released in 2006. Its first two singles, "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" and "Watching You", each spent four weeks at the top of the country music charts. Both songs were also named as the Number One country song of the year by Billboard magazine ("If You're Going Through Hell" in 2006, and "Watching You" in 2007). The album, which has since been certified platinum in the United States, has since produced two more Number One singles in "These Are My People" and "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)".

LYRICS:

Drivin' through town just my boy and me
With a happy meal in his booster seat
Knowin' that he couldn't have the toy
Till his nuggets were gone

A green traffic light turned straight to red
I hit my breaks
And mumbled under my breath
His fries went fryin' [corrected]
And his orange drink covered his lap

Well then my four year old said a four letter word
It started with S
And I was concerned
So I said son
Where'd you learn to talk like that

He said I'd been watchin' you
Dad ain't that cool
I'm your buckaroo
I wanna be like you
And eat all my food
And grow as tall as you are
We got cowboy boots
And camo pants
We're just alike
Now ain't we dad
I wanna do everything you do
So I been watchin' you

We got back home and I went to the barn
I bowed my head and I prayed real hard
Said lord please help me help my stupid self

Then this side of bedtime later that night
Turnin' on my son's scooby doo night light
He crawled out of bed and he got down on his knees
He closed his little eyes
Folded his little hands
Spoke to God like he was talkin' to a friend
And I said son,
Now where'd you learn to pray like that

He said I'd been watchin' you
Dad ain't that cool
I'm your buckaroo
I wanna be like you
And eat all my food
And grow as tall as you are
We like fixin' things
And holdin' mama's hand
We're just alike
Now ain't we dad
I wanna do everything you do
So I been watchin' you

With tears in my eyes
I wrapped him in a hug
Said my little bear is growin' up
And he said but when I'm big
I'll still know what to do

Cause I been watchin you
Dad ain't that cool
I'm your buckaroo
I wanna be like you
And eat all my food
And grow as tall as you are
We got cowboy boots
And camel pants
We're just alike
Now ain't we dad
I wanna do everything you do
So I been watchin' you

Then I'll be strong as superman
We'll be just alike
Hey won't we dad
When I can do everything you do
Cause I been watchin' you

Hey yeah
Uh huh

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