♪ That's the call ♪ ♪ That's the game ♪ ♪ And the pain ♪ ♪ Stays the same ♪ (people chattering) (melancholy music) (whimsical music) - Hello, I'm Derek Pritzl, and this is "Pardon Me."

(upbeat music) ♪ Oh, pardon me ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ If I break down to cry ♪ ♪ Don't you ask no questions, honey ♪ ♪ I don't wanna lie ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ If I break down to cry ♪ ♪ Well, I've been a young man ♪ ♪ Many moons ago ♪ ♪ The heart of Wisconsin ♪ ♪ It's I called my home ♪ ♪ Spent 54 years out here ♪ ♪ On my own ♪ ♪ Then I got now tin ♪ ♪ For to call my own ♪ ♪ Oh, pardon me ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ If I break down to cry ♪ ♪ Don't you ask no questions, honey ♪ ♪ I don't wanna lie ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ If I break down to cry ♪ ♪ Oh, I've been a painter ♪ ♪ A worker of wood ♪ ♪ I turned dust into mortar ♪ ♪ And then seed right into food ♪ ♪ Oh, but the blood and the sweat and tears ♪ ♪ Lord, it's done me no good ♪ ♪ When your debts come a-calling, well ♪ ♪ It's all a man can do ♪ ♪ Oh, pardon me ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ If I break down to cry ♪ ♪ But don't you ask no questions, honey ♪ ♪ I don't wanna lie ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ If I break down to cry ♪ (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) ♪ It's the pride where the line goes ♪ ♪ The tools of the trade ♪ ♪ It's the fork in the path, honey ♪ ♪ And neither one is safe ♪ ♪ But what's left to say ♪ ♪ 'Cause as as I stand before you ♪ ♪ Shadow of a man ♪ ♪ Singing all these songs about ♪ ♪ The things I don't understand ♪ ♪ And above all those things ♪ ♪ Of which many I regret ♪ ♪ It's the trust of a woman ♪ ♪ Well, you never do get it back ♪ ♪ Oh, pardon me ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ If I break down to cry ♪ ♪ But don't you ask no questions, honey ♪ ♪ I don't wanna lie ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ If I break down to cry ♪ ♪ Oh, please pardon me ♪ ♪ If I break ♪ ♪ Down and cry ♪ The "Pardon Me" song was more of, like, an exercise, 'cause I got really into bluegrass, and Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.

But specifically, like, the "Oh, Death" song that Ralph Stanley sings, it has a, you know, that story, a tear.

You know, a really sad song.

♪ It's the trust of a woman ♪ ♪ Well, you never do get it back ♪ ♪ Oh, pardon me ♪ ♪ Please pardon me ♪ And then, I was working at the Allis-Chalmers...

I got into the old offices, and they had pictures of the roads.

Before there were roads, they were all timber roads all around West Allis, and that's how people got around.

And yeah, I just thought of a, you know, guy from, what, 1912 working in West Allis and being, you know, older, and not having anything, and the regret.

♪ Please pardon me ♪ ♪ If I break down to cry ♪ But I mean, it's still kind of biographical in certain parts, 'cause, like, I've been all those things in my, you know, journey through this life.

♪ Oh, down and cry ♪ Cool.

That one felt better.