Born to poor sharecroppers, one of eleven children in Sledge, Mississippi, Pride is a timeless everyman, revered by his musical peers and adored by countless millions of fans around the globe. Charley Pride unofficially started his music career in the late 1950s as a ballplayer with the Negro American League’s Memphis Red Sox singing and playing guitar on the team bus between ballparks. Self-taught on a guitar bought at the age 14 from Sears Roebuck, Pride would join various bands' onstage as he and the team roved the country. After a tryout with the New York Mets, Pride decided to return to his Montana home via Nashville. It was there he met Jack Johnson, who upon hearing the singer perform, sent him on his way with the promise of a management contract and a newly forged relationship that would last for over a decade.
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Baby Is Gone Lyrics

Charley Pride

The world goes around and the young men get old
The people next door are all down with the cold
The stars are in the heaven that's where they belong
They don't shine in my world since baby is gone
If I were a writer I'd write me a song and all I could say is my baby is gone
[ ac.guitar ]
They had a farsail downtown yesterday
They say that newport house will be finished right away
The weatherman says sunshine but I know he's wrong
But I don't really care cause baby is gone
If I were a traveler I'd go to Hongkong and try to forget that my baby is gone
[ ac.guitar ]
The sheep're in the meadow the cows're in the corn
And I'm here a wishing I'd never been born
The newspaper said bout the world's goin' wrong
Ain't worried bout the world cause baby is gone
If I were a singer I'd sing me a song but who wants to sing when his baby is gone