Charlie Woods & Deep Hollow - That Was Life

I remember my granny rocking me
On a squeaky black front porch swing
Listening to an old whippoorwill
Watching lighting bugs light up the sky
All wrapped up snug real tight
In ragged quilt she’d sewn just for me
She would tell me jokes and sing me songs
And pet my head until I dozed off
I’d wake up to the smell of bacon grease
Shed roll the dough and I’d play in the flour
Making cat head biscuits in the morning hours
That homemade apple butter taste so darn sweet
It’s the little things stuck in my mind
Like fetching coal to feed the fire
And tobacco fields as far as I could see
Whittling sticks with my old case knife
Catching creek chub minnows with some fishing line
Listening to the hound dogs run all night
Yeah that was life
And when the weather was nice we’d sit outside
Underneath the shade tree by the old coal pile
There was always someone passing by
Who’d drop in and stay a while
And I’d take off barefoot through the creek
My old coonhound cousin and me
Catching crawdads and skipping stones
Gigging bullfrogs all night long
And I couldn’t wait until the fall
When deer season came we’d have a ball
Waking up early and chasing whitetail bucks
My kin would come from all around
Wondering who’d lay the big one down
And get the bragging rights for the rest of the year
It’s the little things stuck in my mind
Like fetching coal to feed the fire
And tobacco fields as far as I could see
Whittling sticks with my old case knife
Catching creek chub minnows with some fishing line
Listening to the hound dogs run all night
Yeah that was life
Yeah that was my life

Written by:
Charlie Woods

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