Uncle Johnny (Demo)
Album: Travelers
By: Witch and Toad
By: Witch and Toad
Duration
5:20
Genres
Description
"Uncle Johnny" is based on true a true story about my family, and is one of the tracks that will be included in our new CD, "Travelers" Music and Lyrics Steven Mramor Steven Kacsmar Bass Produced by Tracy Marie Vocals by band members Troy Seymour and Cathy Finnegan copyright 2011
Lyrics
Uncle Johnny My Grandma’s from Kansas/my mother is too/my gramp lived a lifetime/ in a hole called mine 22 / In a place called the dust bowl /in a time before the new deal / they had just moved to Franklin/from a town called Breezy Hill Now my Gramp was a drinker/and he played him some cards/and he grew a big garden/ in the spring in the yard/my gram had her chickens/water they drew from a well/ these are things that were told me/ and all my mother would tell Now my gramp had a brother/some said he was slow/and though he was younger/ he worked down below/it was on Easter Sunday/his mother begged Johnny don’t go/ and he was crushed by a coal car/ and died while he smoked a last smoke Now my mother she told me/ she never could cry/ and it took a lifetime/ and she finally said why/ she told half the story/ as seen through a little girl’s eyes/ how we get lost in a coal mine/ and sometimes we never get right So I walk through the prairie/ for the things that I love/ my grandmother’s house there/ and the night sky above/ and when it gets quiet/ and I can feel my own soul/ I forgive uncle Johnny/ then I turn around and walk home My Grandma’s from Kansas/ my mother is too/ my gramp lived a lifetime/ in a hole called mine 22 / in a place called a dust bowl/ in a time before the new deal/ they had just moved to Franklin/ from a town…..
