They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
WAYLON JENNINGSWe 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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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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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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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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I can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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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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