The Old Prisoner

I wrote this song thinking about my uncle. He was born in the 1920's in the Kentucky Appalachians, he struggled to get out of poverty like so many during the depression. He later became a veteran of the Army in World War Two and then enlisted in the Air Force after the war was over. He later found time to go to college and became among many things, a prison guard and a school teacher. He was a mature good looking man but was never married, quite a controversy in the Baptist circles that he gr...

I wrote this song thinking about my uncle. He was born in the 1920's in the Kentucky Appalachians, he struggled to get out of poverty like so many during the depression. He later became a veteran of the Army in World War Two and then enlisted in the Air Force after the war was over. He later found time to go to college and became among many things, a prison guard and a school teacher. He was a mature good looking man but was never married, quite a controversy in the Baptist circles that he grew up in.