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 Leagueâ€™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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Gone, Gone, Gone Lyrics

Charley Pride

The day you walked away you left the hurt behind
A hurt that kept on growing all the time
A hurt that lit the match that burned my world down
Till everything was gone gone gone
And now I'm left among the ashes of my dreams searching for a reason to go on
But all that's left is hurt and hurt is not enough when everything is gone gone gone
[ piano ]
Now in my quiet garden I found peace at last I've left the hurt behind me in the past
I walk among the flowers that bloom here in the sun
And all the hurt is gone gone gone
But then at night they come and take me to my room
And like a little child I go along
And if my room has force it's not that I've done wrong
Yes just my mind is gone gone gone