Waylon Jennings

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"Between Fathers And Sons"

"Between Fathers And Sons"



My father had so much to tell me
Things he said I had to know
Don't make my mistakes
There are rules you can't break.

But I had to find out on my own
Now when I look at my own son
I know what my father went through
There's only so much you can do.

You're proud when they walk
Scared when they run
That's how it always has been
Between fathers and sons.

It's a bridge you can't cross
It's a cross you can't bear
It's the words you can't say
The things you can't change
No matter how much you care.

So you do all you can
but then you gotta let go
You're just part of the flow
Of the river that runs
Between fathers and sons.

Your mother will try to protect you
Hold you as long as she can
But the higher you climb
The more you can see.

That's something I understand
One day you'll look at your own son
There'll be so much that you want to say
He'll have to find his own way.

On the road he must take
The course he must run
That's how it always has been
Between fathers and sons.

It's a bridge you can't cross
It's a cross you can't bear
It's the words you can't say
The things you can't change
No matter how much you care.

So you do all you can
but then you gotta let go
You're just part of the flow
Of the river that runs
Between fathers and sons.

 

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"Big D"

"Big D"


Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry
I ain't got a dime
Sleepin' in the filty trainyard
At the warmest driest place that I can find.

What have I done that would justify
the way you treatin' me Big D
Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry
I don't know a soul.

I could feel a little warmer
But I find that there's no coat in my wardrobe
My clothes're paper thin still you
Let your chill of winter fall on me Big D.

[Instrumental]

Why I wanna go where the winds don't blow till summer
Somewhere the sun will warm this chill in me
Stranded here in Dallas cold and hungry
I don't even know my name.

Oh, my temperature keeps risin'
And I feel that it's done damage to my brain
Could this dirty trainyard be
The last and final restin' place for me, Big D, Big D...

 

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"Billy"

"Billy"



Billy we've come along way together and through it all
You've been just like a brother to me
And Billy we've had our share of ups and downs
Froze our tails sleeping on the ground
When the jobs were few and far between.

We've been knocking around together so long
Singing them same old songs
Been out in the rain so long I swear we're shrinking
Billy lately I have done some thinking.

When I look back on our lives
We've sure had ourself a time
But you know it's been a wild world we traveled
And it's startin' to unravel.

We leave so many loose ends behind
We've been bucked off and kicked so many times
And the ground just keeps gettin' harder
Billy you know well as I we ain't gettin' no younger.

Billy another summer's come and gone
Now with winter coming on
I know we planned on heading south
But Billy I thought about it several days
And these words I'm about to say.

They don't taste good in my mouth
But there's someone who's waiting back home
Lord, if she'll still have me
Guess I'll be saying so long you go on without me.

Ain't no easy way of saying goodbye
So be sure and tell 'em all down in Texas I said hi...

 

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"Black Rose"

"Black Rose"



Way down in Virginia
Amongst the tall grown sugar canes
Lived a simple man and a dominique hen
And a rose of a different name.

Well, the first time I fell lightly
I was standing in the drizzling rain
With a trembling hand and a bottle of gin
And a rose of a different name.

Well, the devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord, put a handle on a simple handed man
And help me leave that black rose alone.

When the devil made that woman
Lord, she threw the pattern away
She was built for speed with the tools
You need to make a new fool every day.

Way down deep and dirty
On the darker side of shame
I caught a cane cuttin' man with a bottle of gin
With a rose of a different name.

The devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord, put a handle on a simple handed man
And help me leave that black rose alone.

The devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord, put a handle on a simple handed man
And help me leave that black rose alone...

 

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"Blues Come Around"

"Blues Come Around"



Once I was happy as I could be but I let a gal make a fool of me
And ever since she let me down the blues come around when the sun goes down
Oh the blues come around yeah the blues come around
Lord the blues come around every evenin' when the sun goes down

As long as the sun is in the sky the doggone blues don't make me cry
But ever since she left this town the blues come around when the sun goes down
Oh the blues come around yeah the blues come around
Well the blues come around every evenin' when the sun goes down

I built my castle very high and then she went and said goodbye
Ever since she tore'em down the blues come around when the sun goes down
Oh the blues come around yeah the blues come around
Lawd the blues come around every evenin' when the sun goes down

Once she called me all her own but now she's gone and I'm alone
And every evenin' I'm sorrow bound
Cause the blues come around when the sun goes down
Oh the blues come around...

Oh the blues come around...

 

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"Bob Wills Is Still The King"

"Bob Wills Is Still The King"



Well the honky-tonks in Texas were my natural second home
Where you tip your hats to the ladies and the rose of San Antone
I grew up on music that we called western swing
It don't matter who's in Austin,Bob Wills is still the king

Lord I can still remember,the way things were back then
In spite of all the hard times,I'd live it all again
To hear the Texas playboys and Tommy Duncan sing
Makes me proud to be from Texas where Bob Wills is still the king

You can hear the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville Tennessee
It's the home of country music,on that we all agree
But when you cross that ol' Red River hoss that just don't mean a thing
Cause' once you're down in Texas,Bob Wills is still the king

Well if you ain't never been there then I guess you ain't been told
That you just can't live in Texas unless you got a lot of soul
It's the home of Willie Nelson,the home of western swing
He'll be the first to tell you,Bob Wills is still the king

 

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"Born To Love You"

"Born To Love You"


Born to love only you
Destined to die alone without you
Knowing my dreams can never come true
Yet knowing that I was born to love you.

Night after night wanting for you
Living a life built around you
Knowing my dreams can never come true
Yet knowing that I was born to love you.

[Instrumental]

Knowing my dreams can never come true
Yet knowing that I was born to love you...

 

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"Bottle Let Me Down"

"Bottle Let Me Down"



Each night I leave the barroom when it's over
Not feeling any pain at closin' time
But tonight your mem'ry found me much too sober
I couldn't drink enough to get you off my mind.

Tonight the bottle let me down
Let your mem'ry come around
The one true friend that I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down.

I've always had a bottle I could turn to
Lately I've been turning every day
But the booze don't take effect the way it used to
I keep a hurtin' in an old familiar way.

Tonight the bottle let me down
Let your mem'ry come around
The one true friend that I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down.

Tonight the bottle let me down
Let your mem'ry come around
The one true friend that I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down...

 

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"Brand New Goodbye Song"

"Brand New Goodbye Song"



Baby, go down to the drugstore buy me a guitar string
Be sure to wear your coat girl 'cause it might rain
'Cause honey, you know that rain is bad for my guitar strings
Put on your warm coat honey, it's gonna be cold tonight
Put on the one that's warm and long
'Cause you're just before hearin' my brand new goodbye song.

Baby, I've tried your doctors, they just couldn't make me well
The higher I tried to climb the farther I fell
I guess it must have blew my mind sniffing the fumes of hell
Put on your warm coat honey, it's gonna be cold tonight
Put on the one that's warm and long
'Cause you're just before hearin' my brand new goodbye song.

Baby, throw away my pillow just before you turn the light
All you'll have next to you now will be the night
I'll be somewhere wrong you'll be somewhere right
Put on your warm coat honey, it's gonna be cold tonight
Put on the one that's warm and long
'Cause you're just before hearin' my brand new goodbye song.

 

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"Breakin' Down"

"Breakin' Down"



I've been a fool, fool, such a fool
I've been a fool, fool, such a fool

Thinking you'll return my love to me
Thinking life would be what I want it to be
I lay awake at night and I roam around
I've been a fool I'm breakin' down

I've been lost, baby so lost
I've been down, baby so low

Being so lonely so hard on a man
Baby, I know you just must understand
I've been trying hard as any man can
To be your man I'm breakin' down

I love you, baby I do
Take my heart and my soul, they all belong to you

Stay with me, please baby please
My heart's in your hands and my mind's between your knees
You know what to do, that could put it all at ease
Just look at me, I'm breakin' down