The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
WAYLON JENNINGSAnd 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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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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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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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 was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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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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