[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:01.74]I was born and raised down in Alabama [00:04.33]On a farm up way in back the woods [00:07.02]I was so ragged that folks used to call me patches [00:10.30]Papa used to tease me about it [00:12.05]Of course deep down inside he was hurt 'cause he done all he could [00:16.27]Papa was a great old man [00:18.85]I can see him with a shovel in his hand [00:21.94]See education he never had [00:24.83]He did wonders when the time got bad [00:27.89]The little money from the crops he raised [00:30.99]Barely paid the bills he made [00:33.71]So life had kicked him down to the ground [00:36.56]When he get tried up to [00:38.20]Life would him kick back down [00:40.02]One day papa called me to dying his bed [00:41.92]Put his hands on my shoulders [00:44.40]Then with a tears said he [00:46.91]Patches I'm depending on you son [00:49.51]To pull the family through son my it's all left up to you [01:01.13]Two days later papa passed away [01:04.10]And I became a man that day [01:06.57]So I told mama I was gonna quit school [01:09.58]She said that was daddy's strictest rule [01:12.54]So every morning 'fore I went to school [01:15.71]I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too [01:18.21]Sometimes I felt that I couldn't go on [01:21.45]I wanted to leave just away run from home [01:24.54]But I always remembered what my daddy said [01:27.32]With tears in his eyes on his dying bed [01:30.38]He said patches I'm depending on you son [01:34.47]To pull the family through my son it's all left up to you [01:45.76]Then one day a strong rain came and washed all the crops away [01:51.17]And at the age of thirteen I thought carrying I was [01:53.49]The weight of the whole world on my shoulders [01:55.88]Know but mama you she knew what I was going through [02:00.86]Everyday I had to work the fields [02:03.68]'Cause that's the only got way we our meals [02:05.63]You see I was the oldest of a family [02:09.59]And everybody else depended on me [02:12.71]Every night I heard my mama pray [02:14.94]Lord give him the strength to make another day [02:19.49]Though years have passed and all the kids are grown [02:22.77]And angels took my mama to a brand new home [02:25.93]Lord knows people that I shed a tear [02:29.04]My daddy's voice kept a tinging in my ears [02:31.82]Saying patches I'm depending on you son [02:34.29]To pull the through family my son it's all left up to you [02:44.94]Patches I'm depending on you son [02:48.99]To pull the family through my son