Mister Charlie-Lightnin' Hopkins

[ti:Mister Charlie] [ar:Lightning Hopkins] [al:In The Evening The Sun Is Going Down] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mister Charlie - Lightnin' Hopkins (莱克林·霍普金斯) [00:01.76]Once in the country there was a little boy; [00:03.26]Every morning that he would go to the table with his little two sisters and brothers [00:06.57]You know [00:07.70] [00:12.51]He would go there [00:19.64]He couldn't talk but his mother didn't know what was wrong with him so she would go to the table in the morning [00:24.26]She would fix for breakfast [00:25.51]She'd fix toast and coffee [00:26.45]Enough coffee for the tin [00:27.76]Toast for the eggs for the church [00:32.32]Then she would ask and say "what you want this morning " [00:36.07]Oh mama toast and milk [00:37.14]You know things like that you know [00:39.10]But the little old boy he couldn't talk good [00:42.80]So she asked him say "what you want son" [00:44.92]Said "sa-sa-a I want-t t-t-t-" She said "Hush" [00:46.55]Say "I tell you what to do [00:47.86]You just hush I just go bring you what I bring the rest of 'em [00:51.57]Cause one of these days I'm gonna learn you how to talk " [00:54.45]She goin' back and she fixes [00:55.57]The next morning same thing [00:56.57]"So what would you children want this morning " [00:58.39]"Butter 'n toast mama " Get around to the little old boy [01:03.45]Say "What you want" He say "bu-bu-bu- bu-bu-bu " [01:10.45]She say "Lord have mercy [01:12.85]" that's what mama said and she walked away [01:15.17]Say "wonder what's wrong with my child " [01:16.77]He heard her [01:16.91]But you know the little boy couldn't do no better [01:19.47]So after he'd find out that mama couldn't understand him [01:22.29]And he couldn't understand the way his mama was doin' him [01:25.36]He packed up his little flower sack and he decide that he would leave [01:29.82]So when he left on his way [01:31.51]He run up on a old rollin' mill [01:33.89]What they call Mister Charlie's [01:35.63]So he walked up to mister Charlie [01:39.45]Mister Charlie was workin' round in his rose bushes 'n things so he taps him: "mi-mi-mi " say "Mister " But he didn't know his name that time [01:51.70]The man straightened up and said "my name is mister Charlie" [01:53.15]He say "mi-mi-ch-ch-ch-ch-" He said "but boy I ain't got to fool with you you can't work " [01:56.26]He said "me-me can work " [01:57.57]So the man went on workin' and he'd tap him again [02:00.45]He said "me-me-me wanna home" He said "look [02:02.36]Boy I've got a old bunk house out in the back [02:05.04]" said "and if you promise me that you will stay in this bunk house [02:07.56]And watch my mill and keep the fire from burning my mill down [02:09.75]" say "I live two blocks up the road [02:11.81]" say "and if you see the mill's on fire [02:14.57]Say you run up and tell me the mill's on fire [02:17.38]You got a home and meal as long as I've got it " [02:20.26]"Ta-ta-ta-ta-thank you mister Charlie [02:21.26]" So the little old boy went to bunkin' that night [02:25.07]Sho' enough late one Sunday morning [02:27.97]Mister Charlie's mill caught on fire [02:29.60]Which he'd forgot about what he had told the little boy [02:33.82]The little boy run up to him [02:37.01]He was cleaning out his front yard [02:40.76]Makin' it beautiful with them rose bushes [02:43.94]You know with them red rose bushes you know how to keep 'em red those rose bushes [02:50.08]And the little boy run up there [02:52.40]Tapped him on his back [02:54.09]And he raised up and said "Hey son why here's you again " [02:58.45]"Ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye-ye" and he was pointing back toward the mill [03:01.23]Tryin' to tell him his rollin' mill was on fire [03:03.73]So mister Charlie said "I ain't got time to fool with you [03:06.87]" So the little boy stuttered too bad for him to understand [03:11.07]So mister Charlie stooped over him again [03:12.84]He pat him on the back said "ye-ye-ye-ye-your ro-ro-" [03:16.58]He said "Wait a minute " He said [03:18.37]"if you can't talk you must sing" and he hollered: [03:20.88](sung) [03:24.23]Whooooooa mister Charlie [03:49.25] [03:55.89]Do you know your rolling mill is burnin' down [03:58.01] [04:05.97]Mister Charlie [04:06.65]Do you know your rolling mill is burnin' down [04:11.57] [04:18.63]Mister Charlie said if you ain't got no water boy [04:22.51]Just let that old mill burn on down [04:25.33] [04:33.42]Little boy was lonesome he walked off and cried he said [04:39.19]He walked back and he said it one more time [04:45.51] [04:49.29]Whooooooooa mister Charlie I won't have no place to stay [04:52.60] [04:53.73]Mister Charlie I won't have no place to stay [04:58.86]Mister Charlie said Boy you'll have a home with me [05:07.13]Just as long as there is a day [05:15.57]Little boy sighed and he tell it one more time [05:18.19]He hollered at him: [05:19.76]Whooooooa mister Charlie [05:21.25]Do you know your rolling mill is burnin' down [05:23.63]Mister Charlie [05:25.19]Do you know your rolling mill is burnin' down [05:28.07] [05:28.88]Mister Charlie said [05:29.73]"If you ain't got no water boy just let that old mill burn on down"