Adam Harvey - The Shake Of A Hand lyrics

Today grandad came by the office Amazed at all the papers that i sign I told him thats how we do business Just a product of these modden(?) times He shook his head and then said i dont understand How all these deals are done It just dont make no sense to me To deal with people we dont see We did it so much differently When i was young When the shake of a hand was all you really needed The strength of a man was in his word And you could look him in his eye and know just where you stand A man was made on the shake of a hand Well i put my pen down and closed up early We drank a beer and talked the times he had He reminised when he proposed to nana And how he got permission from her dad He smiled and said i won't forget the hardest hand i ever had to shake I told him id take car of her and through the years ive kept my word Son we said just what we meant back in those days When the shake of a hand was all you really needed The strength of a man was in his word And you could look him in his eye and know just where you stand A man was made on the shake of a hand A shake of a hand was all you really needed The strength of a man was in his word And you could look him in his eye and know just where you stand A man was made on the shake of a hand