Patches - Clarence Carter.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : R. Dunbar/G. N. Johnson
[00:00.63] 作曲 : R. Dunbar/G. N. Johnson
[00:01.26]I was born and raised down in Alabama
[00:04.14]On a farm way back up in the woods
[00:06.45]I was so raggedy,
[00:07.53]folks used to call me Patches
[00:09.42]Papa used to tease me about it
[00:10.89]Of course deep down inside he was hurt
[00:12.72]Because he'd done all he could
[00:15.21]My papa was a great old man
[00:18.09]I can see him with a shovel in his hand
[00:20.25]See, education he never had
[00:23.67]But he did wonders when the times got bad
[00:26.64]The little money from the crops he raised
[00:29.64]Barely paid the bills we made
[00:32.07]Oh, life it kicked him down to the ground
[00:34.71]When he tried to get up
[00:35.91]Life would kick him back down
[00:37.56]One day papa called to his dying bed
[00:40.50]Put his hands on my shoulders
[00:42.33]And in tears he said
[00:43.26]He said, "Patches
[00:45.51]I'm depending on you, son
[00:48.48]To pull the family through
[00:49.80]My son, it's all let up to you"
[00:59.43]Two days later papa passed away
[01:02.25]And I became a man that day
[01:05.16]So I told mama I was going to quit school
[01:06.99]But she said that was daddy's strictest rule
[01:10.23]So every morning before I went to school
[01:13.17]I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too
[01:15.39]Sometimes I felt that I couldn't go on
[01:18.63]I wanted to leave, just run away from home
[01:21.27]But I would remember what my daddy said
[01:24.33]With tears in his eyes on his dying bed
[01:26.94]He said, "Patches
[01:28.44]I'm depending on you, son
[01:31.53]I tried to do my best
[01:38.97]It's up to you to do the rest"
[01:43.17]But then one day a strong rain came
[01:45.42]And washed all the crops away
[01:48.93]And at the age of 13
[01:50.49]I thought I was carrying the weight
[01:51.81]of the whole
[01:52.47]World on my shoulders
[01:54.06]And you know mama knew
[01:54.72]what I was going through
[01:55.92]Because every day I had to work the fields
[01:59.94]Because that's the only way
[02:01.05]we got our meals
[02:02.16]You see, I was the oldest of the family
[02:05.73]And everybody else depended on me
[02:08.79]Every night I heard my mama pray
[02:11.04]Lord, give him the strength to face
[02:12.99]another day
[02:14.19]4 years have passed
[02:15.15]and all the kids have grown
[02:16.83]The angels took mama to a brand
[02:18.87]new home
[02:19.80]God knows people, I shed tears
[02:22.59]But my daddy's voice kept me
[02:24.60]through the years
[02:25.41]Saying, "Patches
[02:26.76]I'm depending on you, son
[02:28.41]To pull the family through
[02:28.86]My son, it's all left up to you"
[02:35.55]I can still hear papa when he said, "Patches
[02:39.54]I'm depending on you, son
[02:40.59]I tried to do my best
[02:42.21]It's up to you to do the rest"
[02:42.84]I can still hear papa when he said "Patches
[02:45.45]I'm depending on you, son
[02:45.96]To pull the family through