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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Well I hear that your new romance has faded just the way ours did sometime ago
Why I've lost count of all the times I've waited
For you to tell me that you've missed me so
Yes come on home and sing the blues to daddy
Things ain't workin' out the way you planned
Yes come on home and sing the blues to daddy tell it all to one who understands
Like a child who's found a brand new plaything each one is more fun than those before
But there's a faithful one who's always waiting
To be picked up and kicked around some more
Yes come on home...
Come on home...