You never know what you might learn about your family tree at a family reunion. Here is my latest claim to fame. I am related to Tom Dooley. Some of you young folks may not know who Tom Dooley is. Tom Dooley is a character in an old folk song. It goes, Hang down your head Tom Dooley, Hang down your head and cry, Hand down your head Tom Dooley, Poor boy you're gonna die. 

      It is pretty bad that my claim to fame is a song about a horse thief and a murderer. What is even worse than that is I don't even know if it's true. Maybe it was a different Tom Dooley. I have learned that you can't believe everything that you learn at a family reunion. It might make a great story but we got some real good story tellers in my family and I love them all. 

                                                   Damn this Road

Tom Dooley's kin folk of mine

Hung his head and cried

some say, I look and act like him

all the trouble, I get in.

Chorus- Damn this road, crooked road

Dam this road, I'm going down

Wish I could, Know I should

stop and turn myself around.

I'm no better than Tom Dooley was

Can't see Jesus light because

Love those smoking, drinking Southern belles

They're Okie crazy, wild as hell,

Damn this road, this crooked road

Damn this road, I'm going down

Wish I could, know I should

stop and turn myself around.

Momma prays, Jesus save, he hears her, when she says

Damn that road, that crooked road

Damn that road, he's going down

Wish he could,, knows he should

Help him Lord, turn him around

Help him Lord, turn him around. 

    The great thing about being related to old Tom was I was able to get a song out of it.