Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Charley Crockett
Co-written by Charley and Dallas Burrow, ‘The Poplar Tree’ is a story of a heartbroken man who gets caught up in a gun-fight with another man in Dell City, Texas. He ends up getting caught by the man’s posse who then hang him from a poplar tree, but the heartbroken man is still ‘holding his head up’...
I'm holding my head up
I'm not gonna cry
Or tell them that I need her
And that without her I would die
I'm not gonna argue
They won't listen to me
I'm just gonna stay right here
Under the poplar tree
Let me tell you a story
It happened this way
It was born out of longing
In a man that's gone astray
I've been to the valley
In the shadow of death
I've crossed many rivers
Wearing a scar on my chest
Can I outrun this heartache?
A man, he sure can try
I gave my all to that woman
Then she turned around and said goodbye
I was in a high desert
Dell City was the town
That's when my luck turned south
This ol' boy started showin' out
He killed the clerk and a young girl
Who was only standin' there
He looked at me real peculiar
With the bullets flying through the air
I lit out in a hurry
He went out in a hearse
Heartbroken and wanted
Couldn't tell you which one of 'em is worse
He must've been real important
'Cause his posse caught up to me
I was holding my head up
When they hung me from a poplar tree
Yes, they hung me from the poplar tree
The Poplar Tree was written by Charley Crockett.
The Poplar Tree was produced by Mark Neill.
Charley Crockett released The Poplar Tree on Fri Jul 31 2020.