Patches (Re-Recorded Remastered)-Clarence Carter

[ti:Patches (Re-Recorded Remastered)] [ar:Clarence Carter] [al:This Is Soul (Re-Recorded / Remastered Versions)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]Patches (Re-Recorded Remastered) - Clarence Carter (克拉伦斯·卡特) [00:00.20]Written by：General Johnson/Ronald Dunbar [00:00.30] [00:01.46]I was born and raised down in Alabama [00:03.29] [00:04.35]On a farm way back up in the woods [00:06.18] [00:06.70]I was so ragged the folks used to call me Patches [00:09.02] [00:09.55]Papa used to tease me about it [00:10.87] [00:11.41]Course deep down inside he was hurt [00:12.88]Cause he'd done all he could [00:13.92] [00:15.38]My papa was a great old man [00:17.38] [00:18.06]I can see him with a shovel in his hand [00:20.09]See education he never had [00:23.10] [00:23.94]He did wonders when the time got bad [00:26.14] [00:26.78]The little money from the crops he raised [00:28.90] [00:29.87]Barely paid the bills we made [00:31.99]Oh life had kicked him down to the ground [00:34.84]When he tried to get up life would kick him back down [00:37.77]One day papa called me to his dying bed [00:40.67]Put his hands on my shoulders and in tears [00:42.99]He said [00:43.60]Patches I'm depending on you son [00:47.07] [00:47.96]To pull the family through [00:50.09] [00:50.71]My son it's all left up to you [00:55.39] [00:59.73]Two days later papa passed away [01:01.49] [01:02.48]And I became a man that day [01:04.14] [01:05.14]So I told mama I was gonna quit school [01:07.20]But she said that was daddy's strictest rule [01:09.34] [01:10.44]So every morning fore I went to school [01:12.53] [01:13.25]I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too [01:15.51]Sometimes I felt that I couldn't go on [01:18.60]I wanted to leave just run away from home [01:21.24]But I would remember what my daddy said [01:24.36]With tears in his eyes on his dying bed [01:26.90]He said [01:27.54]Patches I'm depending on you son [01:30.78] [01:31.54]I've tried to do my best [01:33.70] [01:34.45]It's up to you to do the rest [01:39.21] [01:43.43]Then one day a strong rain came [01:45.53]And washed all the crops away [01:47.62] [01:49.07]And at the age of thirteen I thought I was carrying [01:51.61]The weight of the whole world on my shoulders [01:54.06]And you know mama knew what I was going through [01:55.94]Cause every day I had to work the fields [01:59.38] [02:00.04]Cause that's the only way we got our meals [02:02.21]See I was the oldest of the family [02:05.17] [02:05.83]And everybody else depended on me [02:08.00] [02:08.62]Every night I heard my mama pray [02:11.23]Lord give him strength to make another day [02:13.99]Though years have passed and all the kids have grown [02:17.11]The angels took mama to a brand new home [02:19.72]Lord knows people I shedded tears [02:22.55]But my daddy's voice helped me through the years [02:25.45]Saying [02:26.02]Patches I'm depending on you son [02:28.93] [02:29.81]To pull the family through [02:32.05] [02:32.82]My son it's all left up to you [02:37.24] [02:40.73]Patches I'm depending on you son [02:43.77] [02:44.77]I've tried to do my best [02:46.82] [02:47.56]It's up to you to do the rest