| Song | Matthew |
| Artist | John Denver |
| Album | Back Home Again |
| Lyrics：John Denver Music：John Denver | |
| I had an uncle name of Matthew | |
| He was his father's only boy | |
| Born just south of Colby, Kansas | |
| He was his mother's pride and joy | |
| CHORUS | |
| Yes, and joy was just a thing that he was raised on | |
| Love was just a way to live and die | |
| Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield | |
| Blue was just the Kansas summer sky | |
| All the stories that he told me | |
| Back when I was just a lad | |
| All the mem'ries that he gave me | |
| All the good times that he had | |
| Growin' up a Kansas farm boy | |
| Life is mostly havin' fun | |
| Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders | |
| Behind a mule beneath the sun | |
| CHORUS | |
| Well, I guess there were some hard times | |
| And I'm told some years were lean | |
| They had a storm in 'forty seven | |
| A twister came and stripped 'em clean | |
| He lost the farm and lost his family | |
| He lost the wheat and lost his home | |
| But he found the family Bible | |
| A faith as solid as a stone | |
| CHORUS | |
| And so he came to live at our house | |
| And he came to work the land | |
| He came to ease my daddy's burden | |
| And he came to be my friend | |
| And so I wrote this down for Matthew | |
| And it's for him this song is sung | |
| Ridin' on his daddy's shoulders | |
| Behind a mule beneath the sun | |
| CHORUS |
| Lyrics: John Denver Music: John Denver | |
| I had an uncle name of Matthew | |
| He was his father' s only boy | |
| Born just south of Colby, Kansas | |
| He was his mother' s pride and joy | |
| CHORUS | |
| Yes, and joy was just a thing that he was raised on | |
| Love was just a way to live and die | |
| Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield | |
| Blue was just the Kansas summer sky | |
| All the stories that he told me | |
| Back when I was just a lad | |
| All the mem' ries that he gave me | |
| All the good times that he had | |
| Growin' up a Kansas farm boy | |
| Life is mostly havin' fun | |
| Ridin' on his daddy' s shoulders | |
| Behind a mule beneath the sun | |
| CHORUS | |
| Well, I guess there were some hard times | |
| And I' m told some years were lean | |
| They had a storm in ' forty seven | |
| A twister came and stripped ' em clean | |
| He lost the farm and lost his family | |
| He lost the wheat and lost his home | |
| But he found the family Bible | |
| A faith as solid as a stone | |
| CHORUS | |
| And so he came to live at our house | |
| And he came to work the land | |
| He came to ease my daddy' s burden | |
| And he came to be my friend | |
| And so I wrote this down for Matthew | |
| And it' s for him this song is sung | |
| Ridin' on his daddy' s shoulders | |
| Behind a mule beneath the sun | |
| CHORUS |