That's My Job - Conway Twitty

That's my job là một bài hát thuộc thể loại nhạc đồng quê, được viết và thể hiện bởi ca sĩ, nhạc sĩ người Mỹ Conway Twitty, bài hát đã rất nổi tiếng vào những năm 90 của thể kỉ trước và cho tới tận nay, nó vẫn còn giữ được nguyên giá trị bởi tính nhân văn và những cảm xúc nó mang lại cho người nghe - đặc biệt là ca ngợi tình cảm cha con, và như là lời khẳng định tự hào của những ông bố rằng: "Nghề làm cha là nghề tuyệt vời nhất trong cuộc đời."

Lời bài hát:

I woke up cryin' late at night when I was very young

I had dreamed my father had passed away and gone

My world revolved around him, I couldn't lie there anymore

So I made my way down the mirrored hall

And tapped upon his door

And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid

How will I go on, with you gone that way?

Don't wanna cry anymore so may I stay with you?"

And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do

Everything I do is because of you

To keep you safe with me, that's my job, you see.

"Later we barely got along, this teenage boy and he

Most of the fights it seems were over different dreams

We each held for me

He wanted knowledge and learning, I wanted to fly out west

I said, "I could make it out there if I just had the fareI got half, will you loan me the rest?"

And I said, "Daddy, I'm so afraid

There's no guarantee in the plans I've made

And if I should fail, who will pay my way back home?"

And he said, "That's my job, that's what I do

Everything I do is because of you

To keep you safe with me, that's my job, you see.

"Every person carves his spot and fills the hole with life

And I pray someday I might light as bright as he

Woke up early one bright fall day to spread the tragic news

After all my travel, I settled down within a mile or twoI make my livin' with words and rhymes and all this tragedy

Should go into my head and out instead as bits of poetry

But I say, "Daddy I'm so afraidHow will I go on with you gone this way?

How can I come up with a song to say, I love you?"

"That's my job, that's what I do

Everything I do is because of you

To keep you safe with me, that's my job, you see."

"Everything I do is because of you

To keep you safe with me."

Link nghe bài hát (Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7XK_zNq930