00:08I was born in 68, Sidneytown it was my fate
00:15My old man looked after me a month or two
00:23But the bottle had a hold on him, and they took me away from him
00:32Another sad brown bottle blues, song sad but true
00:38Jervis Dean Big, the father I never knew
00:47Fought in a war, but the war kept fighting you
00:54The U.N.A. walked from the blood and gold
00:59Couldn't close that battle door
01:02Jervis Dean Big's, the father I never knew
01:15You went to school with Jimmy Carruthers
01:20Trained by Roy Carroll, tough as any others
01:24Funny thing is, he taught me to
01:31When I was 19, I laced the gloves
01:35Never knowing it was your own love till 22
01:41But by then it was too late for me and you
01:47Jervis Dean Big's, the father I never knew
01:55Fought in a war, but the war kept fighting you
02:02You went AWOL from the blood and gold
02:07Couldn't close that battle door
02:11Jervis Dean Big's, the father I never knew
02:19You got hit by a car all broken inside
02:23Still you hung on for a little ride
02:27But a hernia took your final breath
02:32Anesthetic was the hand of death
02:36And I was left with just your name
02:39And a life that never came
02:44Now I gave away
02:47The booze years ago now
02:50I've seen what booze can do to a man's life
02:54Fewer flesh and blood, but a stranger too
03:01And every time I hear them old war blues
03:05I think of a man I never knew
03:10Jervis Dean Big's, the father I never knew
03:18Fought in a war, but the war kept fighting you
03:26You went AWOL from the blood and gold
03:30Couldn't close that battle door
03:35Jervis Dean Big's, the father I never knew
03:41Yeah, just another sad brown bottle blues
03:48Yeah, just another sad brown bottle blues
03:54Father I never knew
04:00Me and whoever and I never knew
04:03You lost the limit
04:06I never knew
04:06I never Wik
04:09I never knew
04:09I never knew
04:11Off the floor
04:12I never knew
04:12Amen.
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