Pre-order my new album "Old Time Feeling" available May 29: "The Way I Talk" is inspired by the plight of the farming community in Kentucky where I grew up, where big business and the laws that protect them have vast control over my community. It is a scary thing calling into question the very thing that put food on my table and is putting food on my niece’s table (she plays the little girl in the video). Isn't that the case for every person working a factory line who is afraid to unionize? Or a fast food employee afraid to take sick leave to care for her kid? We are all expected to be thankful, not question, and shut our mouths.
I made the video for this song with the help of the following people.
Cinematographer: Robert Patrick Stern
1AC: Francis Edward
Key Grip: Jim Petersen
Director/Editor: Brandon Boyd
Assistant Editor: Manuel Lagos Jr.
Color Correction: Enclave Post
Drone Operator: Ryan Hartley
Cast:
Sailor Goodman
S.G. Goodman
Lucas Goodman
Bartlett Goodman
Lyrics:
oh sharecropper daughter
she sings the blues of a coal miner’s son
she said that i know what you're thinking when you hear the way i talk
when you hear the way i talk
when you hear the way i talk
she said that i know what you're thinking when you hear the way i talk
when you hear the way i talk
when you hear the way i talk
and her brother's back at home tending to her daddy's land
he's farming for the businessman
who takes the profit from his hand
with calculation to the dollar of a chemical demand
no not in years took from a man
will you try hard to comprehend
and her mother heard the devil on the midday radio
she listened to him tell her she should have some more to show
but he blamed it on her neighbor at the local dollar store
a tale as old as time to turn the poor against the poor
sharecropper daughter
she sings the blues
of a coal miner's son
sharecropper daughter
she sings the blues
of a coal miner's son
Music video by S.G. Goodman performing The Way I Talk. © 2020 S.G. Goodman, under exclusive license to UMG Recordings, Inc.
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