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 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 REVENUERS 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 COUNTY, LORD, THEY KNEW THAT WE WERE POOR
THEY CALLED MY DADDY PREACHER DAN
BUT DADDY WEREN'T NO PREACHER, LEAST I DON'T RECOLLECT
NEVER HEAR OF POPPA OF NOTHING' BUT THE LAND

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

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

YES SUNDAY-GO-TO-MEETING' CALLED FOR MORE THAN HE STAND
I GUESS HE AT HOME IN HIS OLD CLOTHES
BUT HE MISSED A SUNDAY TAKING MOMMA TO THE CHURCH
MAYBE IT WAS HABIT, LORDS, BUT ONLY KNOWS
YEA, FOLKS IN HARLAN COUNTY, LORD, THEY KNEW THAT WE POOR
THEY ALWAYS CALLED MY PREACHER DAN
BUT DADDY WEREN'T NO PREACHER, LEAST I DON'T RECOLLECT
HEAR OF GRANDPA TALK OF NOTHING' BUT THE LAND