Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
WAYLON JENNINGSBut ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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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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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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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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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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If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
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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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Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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You 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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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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