203: There's a Hole in Daddy's Arm

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This is a sad one. But also a funny one. And frankly, a weird one. There’s sentimentality and singing. Nosebleeds and narcotics. Letters from beyond the grave, and perhaps most surprising, the sudden appearance of a giant scrotum. Probably easier to just listen.

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0:34.0	Hey guys, it's Mike Rowe. This is the way I heard it,
0:36.0	episode number 203. And it's called,
0:39.0	there's a hole in Daddy's arm.
0:41.0	There's a hole in Daddy's arm.
0:45.0	We start with the saddest story that I have ever heard.
0:49.0	A story so sad the first time I heard it, I thought to myself,
0:53.0	damn somebody ought to write a song about this.
0:56.0	Well, I didn't write a song, but I did write a chapter in my book
0:59.0	about the saddest songs I'd ever heard,
1:03.0	as sung to me by the men of the chorus of the Chesapeake.
1:06.0	These were the guys who I mentioned earlier in the book
1:09.0	who introduced me at the tender age of 18
1:13.0	to a breathtakingly depressing collection of lamentations
1:19.0	set to four-part harmony unlike anything I've ever heard.
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