Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 / February 13, 2002) was an American United States of America country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass bass guitar player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. Jennings escaped death in the February 3, 1959 plane crash The Day the Music Died that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper"... [read more] - Out Of Jail
I sat at a bar having a beer Trying to hold down the stool When a stranger walked in stood there beside me And plopped down there like a fool. He started drinking then he started talking About things that were wrong...
- Right For The Time
Almost out of adolescence And into a world we didnÂ’t know Not necessarily love but in trouble With a fire down below. Looking back for a feeling ItÂ’s just something far away and long ago I can still recall the name...
- The Boxer
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom toldI have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, such are promisesAll lies and jests Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the restWhen I...
- You Can Have I Don't Want Her
Verse 1: The girl i love,up and left meShe ran away with my best friend Comes home at night,for just one hourWhen daylight comes she's gone againChorus.Well you can Have her I don't want her she never loved...
- Amanda
I've held it all inward, God knows, I've tried,But it's an awful awakening in a country boy's life,To look in the mirror in total surprise.At the hair on my shoulders and the age in my eyes. Amanda, light of my...
- Ain't No God In Mexico
Down the road a ways I have heard say a new day's comin' on where the womanfolks are friendly and the law leaves you alone. Well I'll believe it when I see it but I haven't seen it yet. Don't mind me just keep on...
- Mississippi Woman
The reflections of the trees are cut by the bow of my piroAnd spattered by the paddle of my eager handThat Mississippi woman is a wavin' over yonderWavin' her lantern for her Louisiana manHow I love that Mississippi...
- Honkey Tonk Heros
Low down leaving sun,i've doneDid everything that needs doneWoe is me,why can't i seeI'D best be leaving well enough aloneThem neon LIGHT nights,couldn't stay out of fights(scratch "Them")keep a-huanting me IN...
- LAyed Back Country Picker
Verse 1 South bound out of Shreveport heading hell bent for his gravehe reads a sign on the barn door that says the good lord Jesus saves But I don't think Jesus knows him cause he (G) ain't the Jesus kindHe's a laid...
- If You See Me Getting Smaller
Willie we've been constant companion you know the light and shadeWe have spent a million dollars find out what we madeWe have made the maidens marvel the things we do and sayDown down and out brother up up in the...
- Good Hearted Woman
A long time forgotten the dreams that just fell by the wayThe good life he promised ain't what she's livin' todayBut she never complains of the bad times Or the bad things he's done, lordShe just talks about the good...
- Good Ol' Boys (Dukes Of Hazzard Theme)
Just two good ole boys,Never meaning no harm.Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the lawSince the day they were born.Straightenin' the curves,Flattenin' the hills.Someday, the mountain might get 'em but the...
- Waymore's Blues
Well, I woke up this morninÂ’ it was drizzlinÂ’ rain Around the curve come a passenger train Heard somebody yodel and a hobo moan Jimmy heÂ’s dead, heÂ’s been a long time gone. Been a long time gone, a long time gone....
- Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Lord it's the same old tune, fiddle and guitarWhere do we take it from here?Rhinestone suits and new shiny carsIt's been the same way for yearsWe need a changeSomebody told me, when I came to NashvilleSon you finally...
- I Recall A Gypsy Woman
Silver coins that jingle jangle Fancy shoes that dance in time Oh, the secrets of her dark eyes They did sing a gypsy rhyme. Yellow clover entangled blossoms In a meadow silky green Where she held me to her bosom Just...
- High Time You Quit Your Low Down Ways
Well, IÂ’m sick and tired of wakinÂ’ up sick and tired As of today thereÂ’s gonna be some changes made Well you might as well keep your feet on the ground Cause I wonÂ’t stand still for your movinÂ’ around. ItÂ’s high...
- Bob Willis Is Still The King
Spoken:HereÂ’s a song I wrote on a plane between Dallas and Austin goin to El Paso Whoops Now this is what gave us the idea to come down here, This is a song about a guy that probably did as much for Our kind of music...
- Silent Partners
He stands in the doorway, his hands upon his hips She stands by the punch bowl, a sweet smile on her lips He slowly walks up to her, she reaches out for him ItÂ’s almost like some magnet is pullin both of them Then he...
- Armed And Dangerous
Ran my Chevy through the car wash Threw the beer cans out Emptied all the ash trays Cleaned a little house Got my Allman Brothers cassettes Stacked up on the dash Got some jack back in the trunk And a tank full of gas...
- Too Dumb For New York City
When I first saw New York City I was green down to the core You could see my red neck glowing For a mile or maybe more Between the hustlers and the hookers I must have made their day Cause they peeled me like an...
- Just Talkin'
We got a lot of politicians Up there on Capital Hill AinÂ’t it funny how they prosper While the country stands still Maybe I should run for office But I just like to talk I ainÂ’t about to run for nothing I donÂ’t...
- Smokey On Your Back Door
Chorus: You got a Smokey on your front door A Smokey on your back door, too Lord-a-mercy, buddy, I wouldnÂ’t wanna be in your shoes I can hear you talkinÂ’, I can hear you singinÂ’ the blues You got a Smokey on your...
- Ride Me Down Easy
This highway sheÂ’s harder than nine kinds of hell Light there it scares as the rain When youÂ’re down to your last shop with nothing to sell And too far away from the train. ItÂ’s been a good month of Sundays and a...
- 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...
- Willie The Wandering Gypsy And Me
Three fingers whiskey pleasures the drinkers And moving does more than the same thing for me Willie he tells me that doers and thinkers Say movinÂ’ is a closest thing to being free. Willie rosins his riggins laid back...
- You Asked Me To
Long ago and far away In my olÂ’ common labor shoes I turned the world all which a way Just because you asked me to. Like unto no other Feel simple love is simple true ThereÂ’s no end to what IÂ’d do Just because you...
- Old Five And Dimers Like Me
IÂ’ve spent the lifetime making up my mind to be More than the measure of what I thought others could see Good luck and fast bucks are too far and too few between Catalog buyers and old five and dimers like me. She...
- Can't You See
Gonna catch a freight train as far as I can Lord, I donÂ’t care which way it goes Gonna climb a mountain, the highest mountain Lord Jump off ainÂ’t nobody gonna know. CanÂ’t you see, oh canÂ’t you see What that...
- Old Friend
Was it really years ago It seems like only yesterday The last time that I saw You laugh at me and fly away. I remember all of the good times And the songs we used to sing Old friend we sure have missed you But you...
- America
Some have said, down through historyIf you last it's a mysteryBut I guess they don't know, what they're talking aboutFrom the mountains down to the seaYou've become such a habit with meAmerica, Amer-icaWell I come...
- Dreaming My Dreams With You
I hope that I wonÂ’t be that wrong anymore, And maybe IÂ’ve learned this time. I hope that I find what IÂ’m reaching for, The way that it is in my mind. Someday IÂ’ll get over you. IÂ’ll live to see it all through....
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