Charley Pride - Wonder Could I Live There Anymore Lyrics

...Time to pay our bill at the grocery store...

Have you ever been awakened
By the crowing of a rooster
While the night's dew is still heavy on the ground
And the voice of Uncle Ben
Seems to break the morning's silence
Bringing lights to windows all around

Well it's time to rise and shine
And start another hard workday
And get the cows in and start the milking chores
It's nice to think about it, maybe even visit it
But I wonder could I live there anymore
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Something 'bout the smell of cornbread
Cooking on a wood stove
Seems to bring a picture to my mind
Of a little three room house with mama in the kitchen
But she can't stop to talk, ain't got the time

She's a fixing daddy's supper, he's a 'working overtime
Trying to pay our bill at the grocery store
It's nice to think about it, maybe even visit it
But I wonder could I live there anymore
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As I think about my childhood
And of my old hometown
I don't really miss them like before
It's nice to think about it, maybe even visit it
But I wonder could I live there anymore.....

I miss you and love you more then you ever know

That's just good that's all there is to say

so great

Charley is the BEST!

2019❣

he's singing about my life growing up on a farm !

How things have changed!
Today's music is nothing!
Who heard of such language !
Now this is music!

The mix on this particular version? Is truly the epitome of just how great a vocalist Charlie Pride truly is! LOVE IT!

On the RCA label,heard this on then WMIL 1290/95.7 Milwaukee...later on WBAY 1360 Green Bay in 1970.

This one of the songs that got me hooked on traditional country.

This is for you lowy Quartermaine

GREAT SONG. DONE BY THE BEST SINGER IN COUNTRY MUSIC. I LOVE IT

Pure Country Music
Charley Pride
Thank you

you're welcome Rebecca

my childhood

Love this song. It makes me to back to my raising. So true, though.

Great song by Charley Pride. 👍👍

I great song about growing up in a rural area of our great country. I am so grateful for my rural roots! But like Charley, I wonder could I live there anymore?

I got to say this I have listen to Charlie Pride most of my life and I am huge fan he came from Humble beginnings and became one of the biggest names in country music but today him and all that great other Legends don't get hardly any air time cuz everybody wants to hear this new stuff I like mine legendary country music God bless all the great Legends

very nice reminisce love it

Esta buena canción la canto CHARLEY PRIDE en el año 1970

thank you for listening

I wonder could I live there anymore.🐄..its nice to think about it, maybe even visit... Countryside,) Illinois) miss it...beautiful country classic Charlie is a one of a kind...beautiful music...

you can take a boy from the country.....but....you can never take the country out of a boy...

the world best

the world best

ha...I do still live there...on the old family farm, in the same house my grandpa and grandma lived in. I have roosters that wake me up every morning. One that comes to the back porch to roost at night and so every morning he awakens me with his crowing. I love to hear his 4 AM crow. I have a whole back yard full of farm birds. I cannot imagine living anywhere else. The city? Not for me.

Yeah I couldn't either

Me either

being a dairy farmer its nice to hear a song that mentions milking cows

Love this song!! thanks so much for sharing my friend..god bless

This great song was written after a vacation trip songwriter Bill Rice took to his hometown, in the summer months of 1969, and was recorded by Country Charlie Pride in 1970. :-)

For my Patsy...love you.xxxxx

I know Charley didn't write the song but he well could have. Today's country stars can't honestly sing about humble beginnings and working their way to the top from obscuerity

I call Charley Pride my second dad. Such a great song

Something about the smell of cornbread cooking on a wood-stove

I was raised on a farm love it 😊

He's a working overtime, trying to pay our bill at the grocery store.

I can't get it out my head, aaaaaam crazy with it

@cedrick mwanje appreciate you listening

have you ever been awakened by a crowing of a rooster:) yes!:)

All the time, since I have chicken coops in my backyard and neighbors also have chickens. It's nice how they give a clear indicator if it's an early morning or not, like if you hear the rooster crowing it's probably 6, 7 or 8 am so you can go back to sleep until noon, roosters never crow at noon :)

There is so much musical talent out there and Charlie Pride is right there with the best of them. Many in the music field have given us great music and a legacy of their talent to enjoy. Love this song, just can't hear it enough and I play it often.

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and AMAZING!!...This song was Charley's 4th consecutive #1 single on the country charts!...It hit the number one spot for 2 weeks, (July 25th, & August 1st) back in 1970!...Thanks so much Mr. Gauntt for sharing yet another beauty! ..Take Care! :)

you're very welcome Miss Muzikgirl67, thank you for listening  and the great info
4th in row bet he get a few more # 1's whaddya bet :)
be good

J.W. Gauntt you i

Fantasztikus énekes, csodálatos ez a dal, nagyon tetszik. Köszönettel Klára.

glad you enjoyed it Clare, i appreciate the listen