Patches-Clarence Carter

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[00:00.00]Patches - Clarence Carter
[00:02.45]I was born and raised down in Alabama
[00:05.26]On a farm way back up in the woods
[00:07.76]I was so raggedy folks used call me atches
[00:10.37]Papa used to tease me out it
[00:12.13]Of course deep down inside he was hurt
[00:14.12]Ause he done all he could
[00:16.43]My papa was a great ol man
[00:19.42]I can see him with a shovel in his hand
[00:21.98]See education he never had
[00:25.36]But he did wonders when the time got bad
[00:28.16]The little money from the crops he raised
[00:31.16]Barely paid the bills we made
[00:33.72]Oh life it kicked him down to the ground
[00:36.46]When he tried to get up life would kick him back down
[00:39.26]One day papa called me to his dyin bed
[00:42.20]Put his hands on my shoulders and in tears he said
[00:45.13]He said atches
[00:46.57]I dependin on you son
[00:49.88]To pull the family through
[00:52.68]My son it all left up to you
[01:01.54]Two days later papa passed away
[01:04.35]And I became a man that day
[01:06.72]So I told mama I was gonna quit school
[01:09.16]But she said that was daddy strictest rule
[01:12.59]So every morning ore I went to school
[01:15.52]I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too
[01:17.96]Sometimes I felt that I couldn go on
[01:21.14]I wanted to leave just run away from home
[01:23.95]But I would remember what my daddy said
[01:27.00]With tears in his eyes on his dyin bed
[01:29.75]He said atches
[01:31.06]I dependin on you son
[01:34.24]I tried to do my best
[01:37.36]It up to you to do the rest
[01:46.28]But then one day a strong rain came
[01:48.40]And washed all the crops away
[01:50.72]And at the age of 13
[01:52.96]I thought I was carryin the weight of the whole world on my shoulders
[01:56.28]And you know mama knew what I was going through
[01:59.52]Ause every day I had to work the fields
[02:03.32]Ause that the only way we got our meals
[02:05.69]You see I was the oldest of the family
[02:09.01]And everybody else depended on me
[02:12.37]Every night I heard my mama pray
[02:14.81]Lord give him strength to face another day
[02:17.55]4 years have passed and all the kids have grown
[02:20.86]The angels took mama to a brand new home
[02:23.79]God knows people I she＇d tears
[02:26.47]But my daddy voice kept me through the years
[02:29.66]Sayin atches
[02:30.47]I dependin on you son
[02:34.27]To pull the family through
[02:37.27]My son it all left up to you
[02:42.96]I can still hear papa when he said atches
[02:45.30]I dependin on you son
[02:49.05]I tried to do my best
[02:52.23]It up to you to do the rest