WAYLON

[woodyz]

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I've always been crazy - w jennings

I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through
I've been busted for things that I did, and I didn't do
I can't say I’m proud of all of the things that I’ve done
But I can say I’ve never intentionally hurt anyone

I've always been different with one foot over the line
Winding up somewhere one step ahead or behind
It ain't been so easy but I guess I shouldn't complain
I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane

Beautiful lady are you sure that you understand
The chances your taking loving a free living man
Are you really sure you really want what you see
Be careful of something that's just what you want it to be

I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane
Nobody knows if it's something to bless or to blame
So far I ain't found a rhyme or a reason to change
I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane

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A Long Time Ago
By Waylon Jennings

I don't look the way the average cowboy singer looks
I'll admit I've taken things I never should of took
You can read a different story in a lot of different books
But even then you won't really know

How it was a long time ago
Women have been my trouble since I found out they weren't men
In spite of that I stopped and took a wife now and then
They built their fences high but they couldn't hold me in
I was born with a fire down below
And I learned to fly a long time ago

Don't ask me about the years I spent out in the rain
About the ones I spent in love or the ones I spent insane
Don't ask me who I gave my seat to on that plane
I think you already know
I told you that a long time ago

Me and ol' Willie, lordy we've been sold and bought
I guess you all heard about some kind of system that we fought
We ain't the only outlaws just the only ones they caught
They tried to run us off but Willie's slow
I quit running a long time ago
Songwriters: WAYLON JENNINGS, SHEL SILVERSTEIN

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[woodyz]

These two Waylon songs are probably the ones that sound like they were written for/about me, everytime I hear them I relate them to events as many songs do.

[woodyz]

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Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me)
By Waylon Jennings

Low down leaving sun, I've done
Did everything that needs done
Woe is me, why can't I see
I'D best be leaving well enough alone

Them neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights
Them keep a-haunting me in memories
There's one in every crowd, for crying out loud
Why was it always turning out to be me

[Chorus: x2]

Where does it go,the good Lord only knows
It seems like it was just the other day
I was down at Green Gables, hawking them tables
And generally blowing all my hard earned pay
Piano rolled blues, danced holes in my shoes
There weren't another other way to be
For loveable losers, no account boozers
And honky tonk heroes like me
Songwriters: SHAVER, BILLY

[woodyz]

pictures with words he and KK and just a few others do it like it was easy

[woodyz]

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Troubadour
By George Strait

I still feel twenty five,
Most of the time
I still raise a little cain with the boys
Honky tonks and pretty women
Lord I'm still right there with them
Singing above the crowd and the noise

[Chorus]
Sometimes I feel like Jesse James,
Still trying to make a name
Knowing nothings gonna change what I am
I was a young troubadour,
When I rode in on a song
And I'll be an old troubadour,
When I'm gone

Well, the truth about a mirror,
It's that a damn old mirror
Don't really tell the whole truth,
It don't show what's deep inside
Oh read between the lines,
It's really no reflection of my youth

[Chorus]
[Repeat x2]

I was a young troubadour,
When I rode in on a song
And I'll be an old troubadour,
When I'm gone
I'll be an old troubadour,
When I'm gone
Songwriters: SATCHER, LESLIE / HOLMES, MONTY

[angelhelp]

Well...

Here I thought you'd invented it.

[thywar]

May 11, 2015 16:07:56 GMT -7 angelhelp said:

Well...

Here I thought you'd invented it.

AH you need to expand your musical listening repertoire. Who doesn't know Waylon and Willie and The Boys? Why, one would think you live in.... Oops! Never mind.

[cajunlady87]

Ah, Waylon Jennings, how I miss him. Who can name The Highwaymen without looking up the answer. Talent like they had doesn't exist today. Willie and Kris are the only two left. Like Hollywood, the legends of country music are slowly fading away.

[marc]

May 11, 2015 19:11:31 GMT -7 cajunlady87 said:

Ah, Waylon Jennings, how I miss him. Who can name The Highwaymen without looking up the answer. Talent like they had doesn't exist today. Willie and Kris are the only two left. Like Hollywood, the legends of country music are slowly fading away.

Being married to a Texas gal for 30+ years - Ummm, yes.

[woodyz]

But this one, this is the real deal, me 100%

This and KK Why Me Lord say it all.

"Revelation"

If you have never heard this please listen to it, its for your own good.
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Somewhere in Vietnam a 19-year-old soldier
Walked out of a barroom
And he said, I must be seeing things
That bourbon hit me like a baseball bat

In Bellfast Ireland a little lady
Dropped her shovel in her garden
She raced across the yard
And ask her neighbor Mrs Clancy, what was that.

In Memphis Tennessee a teacher
Raised the window, closest the river
And the children in her classroom swore
They'd heard a choir singing down the street

In Washington DC
A private secretary's lips began to quiver
And the President just put aside his papers
And rose quickly to his feet.

I lay in a cheap motel in the arms
Of someone else's woman
When a loud explosion rocked the room
And turned the morning into night
I jumped out of bed and ran into the street
With hardly any clothes on
As the sky lit up my heart stood still
And I could feel my face was turnin' white.

All at once the clouds rolled back
And there stood Jesus Christ in all his glory
And I realized the saddest eyes
I'd ever seen were lookin' straight at me

I guess I was awakened by
The penetrating sounds of my own screamin'
And it didn't take me long to stumble
Out of bed and fall down on my knees.

As tears rolled down my face I cried
Dear God, I'm thankful I was only dreamin'
And if I never go to hell, Lord
It'll be because you scared it out of me...

[angelhelp]

May 11, 2015 18:32:22 GMT -7 thywar said:

May 11, 2015 16:07:56 GMT -7 angelhelp said:

Well...

Here I thought you'd invented it.

AH you need to expand your musical listening repertoire. Who doesn't know Waylon and Willie and The Boys? Why, one would think you live in.... Oops! Never mind.

It's merely a matter of different musical taste. A lot of folks have tried to get me to listen to their stuff with the intent of converting my preferences. I'll listen to just about anything but very seldom like it enough to return to it. Food, aside from peppery-spicy is the same; I'll try just about anything, but don't assume that I'm going to want to eat it for the rest of my life.

Most of the music [that which contains both melody and rhythm] out there does absolutely nothing for me. I could turn it and ask you why you don't enjoy listening to the Cambridge Singers performing John Rutter's works, for instance, or to Beethoven Op. 78 as played by Rudolph Serkin, or to Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite as performed by the Cleveland Orchestra (the definitive version, for me). That's the kind of music that moves me.

[thywar]

You make the assumption that I don't. In high school I was in marching band, concert band and stage band (lots of 40s music). I had the lead roles in two high school plays one of which was a musical. I was in select choir. Had season tickets to Tulsa Symphony and attended other symphonies. I've taken in ballet, opera, Broadway musicals and plays. I believe a well rounded interest in performing and visual arts provides an appreciation of our culture.

Of course I can sit on a fence in my wranglers and boots, spit and whittle, singing along with lots of George (Jones and Strait), Merle and Willie and Waylon and the Boys.

So I don't expect anyone to have to take a steady diet of any one genre. But at least listen to it enough to appreciate it. Or know that you can't stand it (rap for me). Twice bitten has almost convinced me to give Mountain Music another try. I can listen for short periods of time and come back to it and enjoy it. Same with Cajun music.

Our differences are what makes us unique. Keeps this forum lively.

[angelhelp]

No assumptions were made.

[cajunlady87]

Uh, listen here bro, when you want to prove a point to someone don't be messin' with my Cajun music. It's unique like the way I talk and the way I live. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it. The Nerve!!!

[thywar]

May 12, 2015 15:34:48 GMT -7 cajunlady87 said:

Uh, listen here bro, when you want to prove a point to someone don't be messin' with my Cajun music. It's unique like the way I talk and the way I live. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it. The Nerve!!!

It takes a lot of beer and tall, blonde Cajun women to get past 30 minutes of Cajun music