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Doc
Barker
(M.
Barker)
There’s
a leather bag riding in the passenger’s seat
Of an old jeep plowing through a flooded creek
A country doctor on a late night call
There’s a lady in labor down on Lower Ball
It
had only been three years before
When he had come home from the war
And brought an Alabama wife
And daughter here to start a life
Chorus
Back
to East Kentucky to his beloved hills
He used to walk the railroad tracks to the baseball field
Right down from the tipple where they load the coal
Just golden memories from long ago
Miss June Buchanan took him under her wing
And gave him a chance to pursue his dream
He took an oath and he made her a vow
And he was not about to betray them now
In
his four wheel drive up the hollows he’d go
With a medical bag through the rain and snow
Emergencies, house calls, whatever the need
They knew Doc Barker was a friend indeed
2nd
Chorus
To
God be the glory for a righteous man
Who would carry out the good work he began
To God be the glory is what I heard him say
When they ask him to speak at his retirement party that day
Back
to Eastern Kentucky to his beloved hills
He used to walk the railroad tracks to the baseball field
Not far from the tipple when they load the coal
Just golden memories from long ago
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