Uncle Frank [Alternate Take]

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Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country/Southern rock band based in Athens, Georgia, though two out of five current members (Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley) are originally from The Shoals region of Northern Alabama, and the band strongly identifies with Alabama. Their music uses three guitars as well as bass, drums, and now keyboards. Like many alternative country acts, the Drive-By Truckers record in analog (using 2 inch, 16-track open reel tape recorders). However, unlike the majority of their contemporaries, the Drive-By Truckers have consistently pushed their labels to also release the band's records in a vinyl format. more »


Year:
2009
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They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice.
Now we got more electricity than we can ever use.
They flooded out the hollow 
And all the folks down there moved out, but they
Got paid so there ain't nothin' else to think about.

Some of them made their living cutting the timber down, 
Snaking it one log at
A time up the hill and into town. 
T.V.A. had a way to clear it off real fast.
Lots of men and machinary, 
Build a dam and drown the rest.

Uncle Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek, 
Bought fifteen acres when he
Got back home from overseas. 
Fifteen rocky acres, figured noone else would
Want, till all that backed up water had to have some place to go. 

Uncle Frank couldn't read or write. 
Never held down a job, or needed one inhis life.
They assured him there'd be work for him in town building cars. 
It's already going down.

The cars never came to town 
And the roads never got built and the price of all
That power kept on going straight uphill. 
The banks around the hollow sold for
Lake-front property where Doctors, 
Lawyers, and 
Musicians teach their kids to waterski.

Uncle Frank couldn't read or write 
So there was no note or letter found where
He died. Just a rope around his neck 
And the kitchen table turned on it's side

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Written by: JOHN MICHAEL COOLEY

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