RIP Charlie Pride

[jimsumner]

Country star dies of COVID-19 complications at age 86.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...ns/6523889002/

[ClemmonsDevil]

Dammit!

[sagegrouse]

Country star dies of COVID-19 complications at age 86.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...ns/6523889002/

Is anybody goin' to San Antone?

Rain dripping off the brim of my hat
It sure is cold today
And here I am'a walking down sixty-six
Wish she hadn't done me that way
Sleeping under a table at a road side park
A man could wake up dead
But it sure seems warmer than it did
Sleepin' in our king size bed

Is anybody goin' to San Antone
Or Phoenix Arizona
Anyplace is alright as long as I
Can forget I've ever known her

Wind whipping down the neck of my shirt
Like I aint got nothing on
But I'd rather fight the wind and rain
Than what I've been fighting at home
Yonder comes a truck with the US mail
People writing letters back home
Tomorrow she'll probably want me back
But I'll still be just as gone

Is anybody goin' to San Antone
Or Phoenix Arizona
Anyplace is alright as long as I
Can forget I've ever known her

Anyplace is alright as long as I
Forget I've ever known her

[wilson]

Bummer. ‘Christmas in My Hometown’ is one of my favorite holiday tunes.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lE1_35PlWI0

[Steven43]

Is anybody goin' to San Antone?

One of the coolest songs ever, and one of mine and my wife’s favorite songs to sing along with (badly — neither of us comes close to the great Charley Pride). I’m sad today. 😞

[Tappan Zee Devil]

I actually met Charlie Pride back in December, 2013 in the bar of a hotel in Christchurch, New Zealand.
I was on my way home from McMurdo Station and he was in the middle of a New Zealand and Australia tour.
He is (was) a really nice guy. He talked about how hard it was to be on tour and away from family during the holidays. Having spent two Christmases as well as four Thanksgivings at sea, I was a quite sympathetic audience. I have good memories of that chance meetinng.