Luyện nghe bài hát Daddy Was A God Fearin' Man

By Allan Coe

USED TO GO WITH MY GRANDPA UP TO THE TOWN SQUARE, SET HIM DOWN UP THERE ON A PICNIC BENCH AND HE USED TO PLAY CHECKERS WITH THEM OTHER OLD MEN UP THERE. THEY USED TO TELL STORIES BOUT WHEN THEY WERE KIDS. GRANDPA SAYS HE SHOT THE CHIEF OF POLICE WHEN HE WAS NINE YEARS OLD. N' I BELIEVE HIM, CAUSE THEY TELL ME THAT HAZARD, KENTUCKY'S THE BALDEST PLACE IN THE WORLD. WHY, THEY SAY THEY USED TO SIT OUT THERE ON THERE FRONT PORCH, SHOOT THEN WHEN THEY'D COME DOWN THE HOLLOW. SAID THEY WAS SO YOUNG, TOOK TWO O' THEM BOYS TO HOLD THE RIFLE AND ONE TO PULL THE TRIGGER, HYMN! WELL, GRANDPA , HE'D LIE A LITTLE BIT, BUT I'LL TELL YOU, THERE'S A LOT OF STORIES IN HARLAN COUNTY.

YEA, FOLKS IN HARLAN COUNTY, LORD, THEY KNEW WE WERE POOR
THEY ALWAYS MY DADDY PREACHER DAN
BUT WEREN'T NO PREACHER, LEAST WAYS I DON'T RECOLLECT
NEVER HEAR OF POPPA TALK OF BUT THE LAND

AND DADDY WAS A GOD FARMER YES HE WAS
COULD NOT READ NOR WRITE, LORD, HE COULD BARLEY HIS NAME
DADDY WAS A GOD FEARING' ALL HIS LIFE
SOMEDAY IM GROWN ILL BE THE SAME.

WELL HE ALWAYS GREW THOUGH HE DID NOT SMOKE HIMSELF
HE HAD THE BEST TOBACCO CROP
AND HE NEVER TOUCHED A DROP OF LIQUOR I CAN RECALL
PAPA MADE HIS ON THE GROUND.

YES CALLED FOR MORE THAN HE COULD STAND
I GUESS HE FELT AT IN HIS OLD CLOTHES
BUT HE NEVER MISSED A TAKING MOMMA TO THE CHURCH
IT WAS HABIT, LORDS, BUT HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS
YEA, FOLKS IN HARLAN COUNTY, LORD, KNEW THAT WE WERE POOR
THEY ALWAYS CALLED MY PREACHER DAN
BUT DADDY NO PREACHER, LEAST WAYS I DON'T RECOLLECT
NEVER OF GRANDPA TALK OF NOTHING' BUT THE LAND