Did ole Hank really do it this way?
WAYLON JENNINGSHonesty is something you can’t wear out.
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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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What I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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And you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn’t want us to be the ones.
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One thing is that I wasn’t getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold.
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