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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.

Waylon Jennings

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.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Coast Country Interpretation Know Listen More Sound Think West
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.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Country Money Need One People Person Really Revord Want
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.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Away Gotta Grieving Leaving Seem Smaller Worry
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.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Alcohol Alone Bottle Drug Gonna Hitting Home Lock Talk Walk
So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Guess Inside Popular Song Might Want System Want
Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Anybody Melody Risk Take Trying
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.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Award Book Control One Over Record Sold Thing Want
Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Attitude Buddy Learn Mainly Talking Taught
I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Buddy Much Short Such Taught Time Young
I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Cutting King Long More Mountain Want Well
I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Alcohol Beer Down Drug Hold Stool Try
They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Gone Law Long Order Possession Something
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Deal Manager Produce Record
His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Art Dar Earn Lio Song
Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Beat Collar Crime Highway Laugh Robbery System
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.
WAYLON JENNINGS

Believe Better Doing Go Living Make Mena Music Sure Way

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