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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.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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.
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When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love's fire, cause it's cold on the dark side of fame.
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Don't you be so nice to me I fall in love so easily.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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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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