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Sonny

from Abilene by Chris Beall

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Inspiration comes at the strangest of times. At a garage sale in my old hometown of Abilene, a song played-out before my eyes and I knew it had to be written down. The song "Sonny" is about 3 of the people that were there that day: Sonny (from the coal mine) was there helping his friend, the widow, with the garage sale and selling off her late-husbands old motorcycle parts---which is why I stopped in. Old-man Fred was with me, and his is the story of "it's a little too late now". So there we all were, all coping with life in our own ways. I just thought it was too profound not to write down.

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Sonny left the coal mine
In 2013.
He'd met some woman online
and headed down to Abilene.
Hit the highway in December;
Headed for the sunshine way down south.
The kids were grown and all on their own.
And the rest is what he'll make it now.

Well he grew up in the Golden Age;
Never throwin' nothin' away.
Bought and fixed and sold and worked
with his hands on somethin' everyday.
'Was a time he talked about leavin';
Get rid of everything holdin' him down.
But years are the only thing that went away
And the rest is what he'll make it now.

'Cause it's comin' over what you've stacked-up.
Knocks you down when you get back up.
Takes you out and you can't see how
You're gonna do what you gotta do now,
But you're gonna do what you gotta do now.

Her old man left slowly;
The kind of leavin' that don't go away.
She thinks about him all the time---
Takes it day-by-day.
Says it's hard to hold on to the memory of a man
and not the battle that took him down.
I just stood there with nothin' to say.
The rest is what you make it now.

'Cause it's comin' over what you've stacked-up.
Knocks you down when you get back up.
Takes you out and you can't see how
You're gonna do what you gotta do now,
But you're gonna do what you gotta do now.

It's comin' over what you've stacked-up.
Knocks you down when you get back up.
Takes you out and you can't see how
You're gonna do what you gotta do now,
But you're gonna do what you gotta do now.

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from Abilene, released June 28, 2021
written by Chris Beall

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Chris Beall Austin, Texas

Chris Beall is a singer/songwriter/producer/guitarist who's albums have been featured on numerous Americana radio/music charts. He is a member of the well-established South Austin Moonlighters whose album “Travel Light” went to #1 on the Alternative Country Roots Radio Report in 2019 and reached #61 on the national Americana radio chart. ... more

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