His life is that blue bike Ball glove and fishin' pole Treehouse, BB gun And Band-Aid covered knees He does good deliverin' papers And cuttin' grass for the neighbors Except for Widow Wilson, he cuts hers for free His little hands do a lot for a kid his age He puts one-tenth of his hard earned money In the offering plate each Sunday By his own choice There's a lotta man in that little boy Weekdays, he tries to sleep late Weekends, he's up at daybreak Him and Roy wadin' in Cotton Creek That dog was like his brother You'd seen one, you'd see the other Cut one and both of them would bleed Tires screamed, but that ol' truck couldn't stop There's the tree that he buried him under He made a cross from scraps of lumber And on it carved, "God Bless ol' Roy" There's a lotta man in that little boy There's a house, down where he goes fishin' He told his mom, "Those kids got nothin' And I don't need all these toys" There's a lotta man (There's a lotta man, there's a lotta man) In that little boy