Songs:Charlie McGee (106328)
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This is a semi-autobiographical tale of a single-parent drifter who raises a family. Composition date: 31 May 2005
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Did I ever tell the tale about Charlie McGee, If not then you all come round, and listen if you please Raised in the delta, born of dust and misery, More like a little pundit, Charlie hid alone to dream. Charlies hands a bleedin' from working on the farm, That was that his compass set he left his father scorned, Off with a one-eyed trader who kept tricks up his sleeve, Taught the lad dirty deeds and life's mysteries. *Do you know where you're goin, looked back to where you've been, The law is looking for ya, you've got to catch that midnight train, Those northern lights are shinin, the cold east winds they blow, The darkness that follows you is the devil that you know. Embarking on a journey is like a road without an end, Charlie's path was windin' and it hardly began, He met a crazy cowgirl on his way to San Antone, They's married in a church out east where Charlie built a home. †Do you know where you're goin’, Charlie McGee The wife went mad after sons she had and a daughter she couldn't control, Took the children on the road, away Charlie roamed, They showed up on my doorstep in a trailer packed so tight, Hung around somewhere’s downtown then slipped out'a sight.* The years passed on his children grown one a business man, Sellin' shoes and other goods sown by poor mans hands, I am told that Charlie stole money from a whore, Sailed to sea the kids of three where left out in the cold. But the truth be said, to me one day, by the son of Charles McGee, "He tried his best at raisin' us, we went to school you see, Read them books, and studied up and took life seriously," And in the end he said to them, "never be like me."* †
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