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Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.
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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Country Musician
Guitarist
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Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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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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This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.
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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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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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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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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.
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There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
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