Uncle Charlie Interview

Uncle Charlie Interview is short, spoken word recording in the seminal 1970 album Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy from The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. This spoken word treatment was included as the entree on the "B-side" extended single release of Mr. Bojangles.

Uncle Charlie Interview

I was borned in Kaufmann County, Texas,
That was in, uh, eleventh of September eighteen and eighty six.
Come to 'Californee' in nineteen and six.
I didn't have to go to Worlds War I or, I was too old for World War II.
One good thing that I've always been proud of-
I was the youngest in the family, and the rest was all married,
And I've taken good care of my mother and father as long as they lived.
There was a feller up here at the post office one day he was a pettin' him,
I says to him, that dog, you have no idea how smart he is, I just thought I'd tell you.
You ain't tellin' me nothin', I know all about it!
Kids would come here, "We wanta hear old Ted sing!"
And in them days, I fooled with him more then, I could just commence this way,
I want you to sing now, Doh, Doh, Doh, Wooo!
Now I have to take the harp and make a sound before he'll sing.
Teddy, come here! Come on, come on out from under there.
There now, sit down, sit down Teddy.
Now here, I want you to sing, sing these folks a song, sing 'The Old Rugged Cross'!
Listen, chorded to this now, here!