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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
Actor
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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can't pull it out?
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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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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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, 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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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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When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.
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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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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love.
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
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