Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
WAYLON JENNINGSYou know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins’ name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn’t have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
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There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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Country music isn’t a guitar, it isn’t a banjo, it isn’t a melody, it isn’t a lyric. It’s a feeling.
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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