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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.
Waylon Jennings
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Waylon Jennings
Age: 64 †
Born: 1937
Born: June 15
Died: 2002
Died: February 13
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Singer-Songwriter
Littlefield
Texas
Waylon Arnold Jennings
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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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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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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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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