Clay and Ottie

Clay and Ottie
(Tim Stafford/Daniel House Music, BMI)

1) "Clay listen close to what your brother says,"
My Momma stood a-waitin' by the door
While Daddy he was way off in the woods
He never saw his boy alive (oldest boy) no more

2) When Clay and Ottie came to work in Cleveland
It was hard to find a job in '32
Then Ottie came down sick and Clay was helpless
to stop his greatest fears from coming true

CH) Home is all I have left in this world to hold on to
But now they've let it go and I've nothing left to show
It'll never be the same to me no more

3) Now living on the farm was all we knew
and in my mind I see the homeplace still
But they said they'd rather sell and go to renting
than leave poor Ottie in some Potter's field

4) My Daddy never owned another farm
and he grew to be an old and bitter man
While Momma stares off down the gravel road
She can still see Ottie stop and wave again

chorus

Clay and Ottie
(Tim Stafford/Daniel House Music, BMI)

1) "Clay listen close to what your brother says,"
My Momma stood a-waitin' by the door
While Daddy he was way off in the woods
He never saw his boy alive (oldest boy) no more

2) When Clay and Ottie came to work in Cleveland
It was hard to find a job in '32
Then Ottie came down sick and Clay was helpless
to stop his greatest fears from coming true

CH) Home is all I have left in this world to hold on to
But now they've let it go and I've nothing left to show
It'll never be the same to me no more

3) Now living on the farm was all we knew
and in my mind I see the homeplace still
But they said they'd rather sell and go to renting
than leave poor Ottie in some Potter's field

4) My Daddy never owned another farm
and he grew to be an old and bitter man
While Momma stares off down the gravel road
She can still see Ottie stop and wave again

chorus