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.
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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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 ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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I’ve always felt that blues, rock ‘n’ roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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