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Hundred Year Old Charlie

from Follow The Moon by Jim Ballard

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Born in the year of the signing at Compiegne
Came up in the delta upside a New Orleans

Poor boy was he never knew no family
Every body sayin’ that ain’t no way to be

No shoes no socks skippin’ rocks on the mississipp
Hangin out down by the docks shang hai’d a ship

Sailed all seven seas saw everything he could see
all women and whales and tails was a helluva trip

Hundred year old Charlie’s seen it all
Hundred year old Charlie’s seen it all
Seen em come, seen em go seen em rise and fall
Hundred year old Charlie’s seen it all

Dustbowl damned depression Life got hard
Thinkin he'd try his hand down in the baseball yard

Never did lack the nerve Just could not hit that curve
so its back to hidin’ from the bulls in the railroad yard

A thousand dusty backroads he did hitch
robbed and left for who knows in a ditch

When he got back on that road always kept to that hobo code
all the way to the day he caught up to that sonofabitch

Hundred Year Old Charlie’s seen it all
Hundred year old Charlie’s seen it all
Was there when the Babe he called his shot then hit it to that wall
Hundred year old Charlie’s seen it all

Joined up on the day the Arizona got sunk
went downtown that night and he got real drunk

Then he crowded in the LST
hit the beach at Normandy
now his ribbons and his medals all lie in the deep blue sea

Hundred year old Charlies seen it all
Hundred year old Charlies seen it all
From the beaches of Calais all the way to Omaha
Hundred year old Charlies seen it all

State side started life had a wife and a whole lotta kids
settled in did the walk never talk about things he did

Seen them men walkin out in space
ran in the human race
for a century and then some just in case

Hundred year old Charlies seen it all
Hundred year old Charlies seen it all

Married him three pretty women he outlived 'em all
Hundred year old Charlies seen it all

Hundred year old Charlies seen it all
Hundred year old Charlies seen it all

From the Grand Coulee Dam to that Mexico wall
Hundred year old Charlies seen it all

credits

from Follow The Moon, released June 3, 2022
Tim Longfellow Electric Piano
Bob Corlett Accordion
Bill Watson Bass
Wes McCraw Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals
Joe Lang Drums
JB Guitar/Vocal

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Jim Ballard Akron, Ohio

Jim Ballard
A native of NE Ohio, Jim Ballard has been, for many years a part of the recording/performing community. After touring and performing all over the country with artists from 10,000 Maniacs to Gordon Lightfoot,The Mekons to Pete Seeger, he moved into his studio, Skylyne. There, he has recorded and worked with artists from Michael Stanley to Don Dixon and Alex Bevan. ... more

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