Name: Sandy
Duration: P00H04M13S
Description: "Sandy" is just a stripped down folkish country song with a great story behind it with an awesome plot twist at the end. One of my favorite songs i've written.

Sandy

from "Hello, I'm Gone" EP by Alex Key

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"Sandy" is just a stripped down folkish country song with a great story behind it with an awesome plot twist at the end. One of my favorite songs i've written.

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(verse 1)
An old man sits alone in the corner of a bar,
they watch him drink away his tired broken heart.
See his wife of 40 years, she up and died the other day,
the memories flow through him and the tears roll down his face.
On the other side of the bar there sits a little girl named Sandy,
she walks across the floor, says sir would you like to dance with me?
He raises his tired head and he hands her his frail hands.
For the first time in a long time the old man starts to dance.
(Chorus 1)
and he says m’am this wasn’t in my plans tonight,
I thought i’d just go home and end my life.
I’m not sure what you are if you’re an angel in disguise,
but I think you may have just saved my life.
You saved my life.
(verse 2)
Two weeks later the old man sits on the outskirts of a park.
Slowly getting better with a tired broken heart.
When a woman comes up screaming, there’s a fire in my house,
my son is stuck inside, oh sir please please help.
The old man jumped up to his feet and ran into the fire.
He grabbed her little boy, said son you will not die here.
(Chorus 2)
He drug that boy through the raging flames,
he got the boy out but the old man didn’t make it.
The boy cries he gave his life for mine,
God sent me an angel as an old man in disguise.
And he saved my life.

Ten years down the road that boy now has a family,
a little girl, a little boy, and a pretty wife named Sandy.

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from "Hello, I'm Gone" EP, released February 4, 2015

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Alex Key Wilkesboro, North Carolina

Alexander Chase Key is a singer songwriter from Wilkesboro, NC.
this is his first EP entitled "Hello' I'm gone." The first single off of the album is "whiskey man." Alex has been playing music for many years and continues to grow and flourish in his music. ... more

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