[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:02.49]I was born and raised down in Alabama [00:05.34]On a farm way back up in the woods [00:08.18]I was so ragged that folks used to call me Patches [00:11.56]Papa used to tease me about it [00:13.06]Of course deep down inside he was hurt [00:15.41]'Cause he done all he could [00:17.46]Papa was a great old man [00:20.10]I can see him with a shovel in his hand [00:22.26]See  education he never had [00:25.96]He did wonders when the times got bad [00:29.18]The little money from the crops he raised [00:32.24]Barely paid the bills he made [00:34.52]So life had kicked him down to the ground [00:37.60]When he tried to get up [00:39.06]Life would kick him back down [00:40.67]One day papa called me to his dyin bed [00:43.65]Put his hands on my shoulders [00:45.23]Then with a tears he said [00:47.00]Patches  I'm depending on you son [00:51.52]To pull the family through [00:54.36]My son  it's all left up to you [01:02.69]Two days later papa passed away [01:06.23]And I became a man that day [01:08.13]So I told mama I was gonna quit school [01:11.18]She said that was daddy's strictest rule [01:14.46]So every morning 'fore I went to school [01:17.50]I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too [01:19.88]Sometimes I felt that I couldn't go on [01:23.31]I wanted to leave this but I wanted a home [01:26.05]But I always remembered what my daddy said [01:29.09]With tears in his eyes on his dyin bed [01:31.91]He said  Patches  I'm depending on you son [01:36.66]To pull the family through [01:39.53]My son  it's all left up to you [01:47.71]Then one day a strong rain came [01:50.73]And washed all the crops away [01:53.11]And at the age of thirteen I thought I was carrying [01:55.25]The weight of the whole world on my shoulders [01:57.88]But you know  mama she knew what I was going through [02:02.82]Everyday I had to work the fields [02:05.45]'Cause that's the only way we got our meals [02:07.65]You see  I was the oldest of a family [02:11.71]And everybody else depended on me [02:14.91]Every night I heard my mama pray [02:17.08]Lord  give him the strength to make another day [02:20.18]Though years have passed and all the kids are grown [02:23.45]And amgels took my mama to a brand new home [02:26.28]Lord knows people that I shed a tear [02:29.23]My daddy's voice kept a-tinging in my ears [02:32.16]Saying  Patches  I'm depending on you son [02:36.71]To pull the family through [02:39.57]My son  it's all left up to you [02:47.24]Patches  I'm depending on you son [02:51.40]To pull the family through [02:54.21]My son  it's all left up to you