Did ole Hank really do it this way?
WAYLON JENNINGSHighway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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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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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 might be an endangered species.
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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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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.
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If we all could sound like we wanted to, we’d all sound like George Jones.
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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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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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There’s always one more way to do things and that’s your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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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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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England.
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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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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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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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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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