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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
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Littlefield
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Waylon Arnold Jennings
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
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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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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.
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When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby's arms, hell is when my baby's not here.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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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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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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One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.
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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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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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I might be an endangered species.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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