《Patch My Heart》歌词

[00:02:31] I was born and raised down in Alabama

[00:02:31] On a farm way back up in the woods

[00:02:31] I was so ragged the folks used to call me Patches

[00:02:31] Papa used to tease me about it

[00:02:31] Course deep down inside, he was hurt

[00:02:31] 'Cause he'd done all he could

[00:02:31] My papa was a great old man

[00:02:31] I can see him with a shovel in his hand

[00:02:31] See, education he never had

[00:02:31] He did wonders when the times got bad

[00:02:31] The little money from the crops he raised

[00:02:31] Barely paid the bills we made

[00:02:31] Oh, life had kicked him down to the ground

[00:02:31] When he tried to get up, life would kick him back down

[00:02:31] One day, papa called me to his dyin' bed

[00:02:31] Put his hands on my shoulders and in tears he said

[00:02:31] He said, "Patches, I'm depending on you, son

[00:02:31] To pull the family through

[00:02:31] My son, it's all left up to you"

[00:02:31] Two days later papa passed away

[00:02:31] And I became a man that day

[00:02:31] So I told mama I was gonna quit school

[00:02:31] But she said that was daddy's strictest rule

[00:02:31] So every morning 'fore I went to school

[00:02:31] I fed the chickens and I chopped wood too

[00:02:31] Sometimes I felt that I couldn't go on

[00:02:31] I wanted to leave, just run away from home

[00:02:31] But I would remember what my daddy said

[00:02:31] With tears in his eyes on his dyin' bed

[00:02:31] He said, "Patches, I'm depending on you, son

[00:02:31] I've tried to do my best

[00:02:31] It's up to you to do the rest"

[00:02:31] Then one day a strong rain came and washed all the crops away

[00:02:31] And at the age of thirteen I thought I was carrying the weight of the whole world on my shoulders

[00:02:31] And you know, mama knew what I was going through, 'cause

[00:02:31] Every day I had to work the fields

[00:02:31] 'Cause that's the only way we got our meals

[00:02:31] See, I was the oldest of the family

[00:02:31] And everybody else depended on me

[00:02:31] Every night I heard my mama pray

[00:02:31] "Lord, give him strength to make another day"

[00:02:31] Though years have passed and all the kids have grown

[00:02:31] The angels took mama to a brand new home

[00:02:31] Lord knows, people, I shedded tears

[00:02:31] But my daddy's voice helped me through the years

[00:02:31] Saying, "Patches, I'm depending on you, son

[00:02:31] To pull the family through

[00:02:31] My son, it's all left up to you"

[00:02:31] Oh, I could still hear papa's voice saying

[00:02:31] "Patches, I'm depending on you, son

[00:02:31] I've tried to do my best

[00:02:31] It's up to you to do the rest"

[00:02:31] I could still hear papa when he's saying

[00:02:31] "Patches, I'm depending on you, son

[00:02:31] To pull the family through

[00:02:31] My son, it's all left up to you"