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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Anytime the world is gettin' to me all I have to do is think of you
And I know the world cannot undo me I feel so easy loving you
It amazes me at all I seem to be is me loving you and you loving me
It amazes me the rhythm and the rhyme two loving hearts in sweet loving times
Mhm sweet loving times
I never find the words to tell you somehow they're always hard to say
But I hope you feel it when I hold you my love is growing everyday
It amazes me at all...