The Steel Woods - Uncle Lloyd [Official Audio]

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  • Опубликовано: 17 янв 2019
  • Debut album from The Steel Woods 'Straw In The Wind' available now! bit.ly/strawinthewind
    Release Date: May 19, 2017 via Woods Music / Thirty Tigers [Lyrics Below]
    thesteelwoods.com
    UNCLE LLOYD
    Written by Darrell Scott
    © 2017. BMG Gold Songs OBO House of Bram.
    All rights reserved.
    He was not my father’s brother
    But he wished that he could be
    Told us kids to call him Uncle
    We would be his family
    He had a wife and kids in Fresno
    The youngest one was twenty-four
    Daddy brought him into our house
    They didn’t want him anymore
    He helped us work the family business
    Building fences in the sun
    He worked just like a man of twenty
    Till the working day was done
    He and Dad would spend their evenings
    Sitting in lawn chairs in the yard
    Where they’d drink a toast to Seagram’s
    Seagram’s never went down hard
    (Chorus)
    Won’t you wake up, Uncle Lloyd
    Got a lot of work today
    We’ll get Don to make the coffee
    Load that truck and be on our way
    Friday night you can drive to Vegas
    Maybe this time you will win
    Buy a trailer by the river
    And you won’t have to work again
    He was sleeping in the workroom
    With a mattress on the floor
    When one night I heard him crying
    As I passed outside his door
    He cried, “Rita, girl, I love you
    Rita, darling, please don’t go
    I’ve tried hard to make you happy
    I’ve done everything I know”
    Then I heard the bottle open
    The tipping up and putting down
    Heard the rustling of the covers
    Then he did not make a sound
    I thought of thirty years of Rita
    Standing sternly by his side
    All the years of hanging in there
    And all the emptiness inside
    And I thought of how their children
    Have children of their own
    And how a man at fifty-seven
    Winds up living so alone
    (Chorus)
    Friday night you can drive to Vegas
    Maybe this time you will win
    Buy a trailer by the river
    And you won’t have to work again
    Work again
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Комментарии • 39

  • @egillskallagrimssonberserk1671
    @egillskallagrimssonberserk1671 4 года назад +25

    American music like this fills my heart with pride and joy. I’m blessed to live here with y’all.

  • @curtisanderson4306
    @curtisanderson4306 3 года назад +6

    I'm Uncle Lloyd my family ain't want me no more cause of alota time spent in another place inside but I was offered the shed and a bed. Use the bathroom and shower but now I'm n the Country by myself kids are grown 51 and got cirrhosis and stomach cancer but that is my fault!!! Thank You Steel Woods for the Great Music American by birth Southern by God's Amazing Grace!!!!!!!!

    • @TheSerpentsEye
      @TheSerpentsEye 2 года назад +1

      I hope you found peace, Brother. ❤️

  • @rf5510
    @rf5510 3 года назад +7

    This will forever remind of my uncle Gerry. Passed away 8 years ago. He was devastated by his ex wife and he did his best to live his life past that and I think he did his best. He died in our living room of a heart attack. In the end he was loved dearly. Still miss him terribly.

  • @daveprivette2707
    @daveprivette2707 4 года назад +23

    I was 57. My wife and myself broke up. My daughter was 25 with a son. My youngest was 17. 28 yrs of marriage. This song hit home for me.

  • @hancockfamilyfarms9493
    @hancockfamilyfarms9493 5 лет назад +14

    Hell yeah! Darrell Scott should be proud!

    • @ulysses_grant
      @ulysses_grant 4 года назад

      Almost identical to the original, with thir own signature in it. Amazing.

    • @danfran47
      @danfran47 3 года назад

      He Is!

  • @ulysses_grant
    @ulysses_grant 4 года назад +23

    Makes me remember of a song which the old man goes to live with his married son. His son wife complained, and the young man went to his old man to ask him to leave, saying "take this piece of ox leather which I had just tanned, to serve you as a blanket wherever you go to sleep". The old man took the leather piece and silently crossed the door out, but his 8yrs old grandson ran after him and crying hugged in his suit asked him "grandpa, gimme half of this piece of ox leather". With a heart broken of seeing his grandson crying, the old man gave him half of the ox leather piece he had. When the boy came back inside his house, his father asked, "why did you do that?", and the boy replied, "father, one day I'll grow up, and you will go to live with me in my house. But maybe come that we don't match each other, so this piece of ox leather I'll give for you to use as a blanket, anywhere you go to sleep."

    • @carbonitegamorrean8368
      @carbonitegamorrean8368 4 года назад

      do ya know the name of that song ?

    • @ulysses_grant
      @ulysses_grant 4 года назад +2

      @@carbonitegamorrean8368 Yes, it's a brazilian song, I'm afraid it won't make sense because of the language... But the name is "Couro de boi". Here it goes: watch?v=OntD9DVqVoE

    • @carbonitegamorrean8368
      @carbonitegamorrean8368 4 года назад +1

      Thank you, I read the words (translated) while I listened to the song.

    • @ulysses_grant
      @ulysses_grant 4 года назад

      Ma pleasure. It's a pretty old tune, but as always, old tunes are often much better than many fresh ones.

    • @clementineschalchen330
      @clementineschalchen330 4 года назад +1

      Ulisses 😂 goddamn be got his daddy roasted

  • @Gustavowith
    @Gustavowith 5 лет назад +10

    Both this channel and this song need more views. Amazing tune, amazing band.

  • @TheSerpentsEye
    @TheSerpentsEye 5 лет назад +8

    This song makes me and my wife cry. Ya got me.

  • @disnagburnazog9552
    @disnagburnazog9552 2 года назад +2

    this song made me cry
    im 23 and through this song i felt the pain of that old man

  • @danfran47
    @danfran47 3 года назад +5

    That's a masterpiece. Thank you Darrel Scott and The Steel Woods!

  • @paulajane9828
    @paulajane9828 3 года назад +6

    I love everything about this song forever needs to be on country radio 💯❣🎸❤

  • @NicholeMarlowe-rr5vr
    @NicholeMarlowe-rr5vr Год назад +1

    Your words are enveloping. Sometimes it's beautiful sometimes it hurts. Thank you for both

  • @TheSerpentsEye
    @TheSerpentsEye 2 года назад +1

    3 years on and this is still one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. I hope Uncle Lloyd is winning big in that Casino in the sky.

  • @BLOATEDLUNATIC666
    @BLOATEDLUNATIC666 2 года назад +1

    We had an adopted cousin who was like our uncle cause he was as old as our dad. He lived in Europe and I don’t know much about him. Anyway, no personal connection to lyrics but this band brings me to tears and goosebumps. So much emotion. Rock that says my name is my favorite!

  • @Indyriwer
    @Indyriwer 2 года назад +2

    The best song in the world

  • @bigal4288
    @bigal4288 4 года назад +1

    Wonderful song! Reminds me of my US times, greetings from Germany !!!

  • @hazamaniarunninwild5247
    @hazamaniarunninwild5247 3 года назад +2

    Way to go boys, tear in my eye at work. Fantastic song

  • @eddyk4515
    @eddyk4515 2 года назад +1

    This my friends, is good Music ❤

  • @RaceFanDana
    @RaceFanDana 4 года назад +4

    My wife left me for her love of alcohol about 3 months ago and I'm 57
    Thanks Wes... appreciate that

  • @marybrowning5657
    @marybrowning5657 4 года назад +1

    Great cover! The original By Darrell Scott is my favorite but this is also very good.

  • @derekneedham4187
    @derekneedham4187 Год назад +1

    Really love this song what else can I say

  • @robindaltonsurber538
    @robindaltonsurber538 4 года назад +1

    Music to my Ears ❤

  • @ayman9377
    @ayman9377 3 года назад

    What a story teller !

  • @scottbalbas7752
    @scottbalbas7752 3 месяца назад

    Hey Wes , did you say Fresno?!!😂😂 Everybody knows Fresno , but Madera is just to the north of Fresno and is a pretty peaceful place. Madera is where Im from....you oughta come through some time!!!

  • @lindamcnealy3121
    @lindamcnealy3121 5 лет назад +2

    CHATTANOOGA HERE WE COME

  • @carbonitegamorrean8368
    @carbonitegamorrean8368 4 года назад +2

    jebus jones whatta song

  • @derekneedham4187
    @derekneedham4187 Год назад

    This song bummed me out a little bit what is it the Pat benatar says Love is a battlefield and there's always casualties any man with any experience knows that