Would You Carry Me
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
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I USED TO WAIT FOR DAD WITH MY OLE CANE POLE KNOWING HE WOULD TAKE ME TO OUR FAVORITE FISHING HOLE IT WAS JUST ABOUT A MILE TO THAT OLE RIVER BED AND ON THE WAY DOWN THERE, I WAS ALWAYS UP AHEAD BUT THAT OLE JOURNEY HOME SEEMED LIKED A HUNDRED MILES UPHILL ALL THE WAY AND I'D KEEP UP FOR A WHILE DAD WOULD ALWAYS STOP JUST ABOUT HALFWAY AND HE KNEW WHEN I'D CALL UP, HE WOULD HEAR ME SAY 1ST CHORUS: DADDY, I'M TIRED THIS ROAD IS JUST TOO LONG HOW COME IT SEEMS SO FAR WHEN WE'RE HEADED HOME MY CANE IS GETTING HEAVY MY LEGS ARE JUST TOO WEAK DADDY, WOULD YOU CARRY ME BUT THAT WAS YEARS AGO AND EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED THE MAN THAT USED TO CARRY ME NOW LEANS UPON A CANE BUT I STILL TURN TO HIM WHEN LIFE GETS ME DOWN AND WONDERING WHO I'D GO TO WHEN HE'S NOT AROUND SO JUST THE OTHER DAY, I WALKED UP TO THE HOUSE STEPPED INTO THE FRONT DOOR... DAD WAS KNELT BESIDE THE COUCH HE DID NOT HEAR ME ENTER BUT I COULD HEAR HIM PRAY NOW I LEARNED ANOTHER LESSON WHEN I HEARD HIM SAY 2ND CHORUS: FATHER, I'M TIRED THIS ROAD IS JUST TOO LONG HOW COME IT SEEMS SO FAR WHEN WE'RE HEADED HOME MY CANE IS GETTING HEAVY MY LEGS ARE JUST TOO WEAK FATHER, WOULD YOU CARRY ME TAG: FATHER, WOULD YOU CARRY ME
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