I Remember-Dolly Parton

[ti:Old Black Kettle] [ar:Dolly Parton] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Remember - Dolly Parton [00:10.62]Well I remember when I was just little [00:12.77]Mama used to cook on an old black kettle [00:14.94]On an old wood stove she'd had since she was wed [00:17.85] [00:19.36]Well the oven door was sprung a little bit [00:21.71]So we propped it up with a forked stick [00:23.67]But that didn't matter cause mama kept us fed [00:27.05] [00:28.73]My mama and daddy must have loved each other [00:30.88]Cause I had eleven sisters and brothers [00:33.19]And the girls worked just as hard as the boys did [00:36.02] [00:37.57]There was corn to hoe then we'd go hoe it [00:40.12]We might have been poor but we didn't know it [00:42.65]We'd heard that word but we didn't know what it meant [00:45.51] [00:47.14]Oh we used to have such a good life [00:50.42] [00:51.43]And the days that I knew then are the happiest I've known [00:56.10] [00:57.68]And oh didn't we have such a good time [01:01.06] [01:02.09]It's sad to think the old black kettle's gone [01:05.18] [01:16.21]Well there was nothing that pleased us any better [01:18.46]Than when we got an occasional letter [01:20.76]From kin folks living up north in some big town [01:24.11] [01:25.26]We'd think of all the games we'd play [01:27.71]And we just couldn't hardly wait [01:29.74]When our city cousins said they're a coming down [01:32.96] [01:34.34]Now mama's done away with the old black kettle [01:36.89]She used to cook in when I was just little [01:39.30]And the door ain't sprung on her electric range [01:42.08] [01:43.57]That little farm and home we had [01:45.84]It ain't there no more and that's too bad [01:48.49]Folks are doing away with the simple things [01:51.09] [01:53.20]And oh we used to have such a good life [01:56.26] [01:57.34]And the days that I knew then are the happiest I've known [02:02.09] [02:03.91]And oh didn't we have such a good time [02:06.78] [02:07.98]It's sad to think the old black kettle's gone [02:10.98] [02:16.83]Now I just mean to say the simple things are gone [02:20.77] [02:22.31]The old black kettle's gone