Waylon Jennings

[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]


"33rd Of August"



Today there's no salvation band's packed up and gone
I'm left standing with my penny in my hand
Down at railroad station a blind man sings his song
I think he sees things I don't understand.

It's the 33rd of August
And I'm finally touching down
Eight days from Sunday
Finds me Saturday bound.

I stumbled through the darkness tumble to my knees
A thousand voices screaming in my brain
Wound up in a squad car busted down for vacancy
Outside my cell it's sure as hell looks just like rain.

It's the 33rd of August
And I'm finally touching down
Eight days from Sunday
Finds me Saturday bound.

I've put my dangerous feelings under lock and chain
Killed my violent nature with a smile
Let the demons danced and sang their songs within my fevered brain
Not all my God like thoughts were defiled.

It's the 33rd of August
And I'm finally touching down
Eight days from Sunday
Finds me Saturday bound..

"A Bad Day"



I guess it all started when I woke up this morning
Everything seemed okay
'Til I let my pet snake get loose in the kitchen
Now I've been in trouble all day

I got some paint on the wall, a pretty orange color
And a little on the carpet and floor
I covered it up with mom's coat from the closet
That she says she can't wear anymore

I've had a bad, bad day
Not like I thought it would be
I've had a bad,bad day
It seems like everyone's pickin' on me

I put some sand in my grandpa's tobacco
And he frowned at me all day
Then I hid his pipe 'cause it smells when he smokes it
He shouldn't smoke anyway

So between mom's coat and my grandpa's tobacco
Life can be rough on a kid
They've almost worn out the seat of my britches
It don't hurt much now,but it did

I've had a bad, bad day
Not like I thought it would be
I've had a bad,bad day
It seems like everyone's pickin' on me

I've had a bad, bad day
Not like I thought it would be
I've had a bad,bad day
It seems like everyone's pickin' on me

"A Couple More Years"



I've got a couple more years on you baby that's all
I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall
That's not that I'm wiser it's just that I've spent
More time with my back to the wall.

And I've picked up a couple more years on you baby that's all
I've walked a couple more roads than you baby that's all
And I'm tired of running while you're only learning to crawl
And you're going somewhere but I've been to somewhere
And found it was nowhere at all.

And I've picked up a couple more years on you baby that's all.
Saying goodbye girl don't ever come easy at all
But you've got to fly cause you're hearin' them young eagles call
Someday when you're older you'll smile at a man strong and tall
And say I've got a couple more years on you baby that's all.

You'll say I've got a couple more years on you baby that's all
I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall
That's not that I'm wiser it's just that I've spent
More time with my back to the wall...

"A Couple More Years"
(performed by Willie Nelson)



I've got a couple more years on you baby that's all
I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall
That's not that I'm wiser it's just that I've spent
More time with my back to the wall.

And I've picked up a couple more years on you baby that's all
I've walked a couple more roads than you baby that's all
And I'm tired of running while you're only learning to crawl
And you're going somewhere but I've been to somewhere
And found it was nowhere at all.

And I've picked up a couple more years on you baby that's all.
Saying goodbye girl don't ever come easy at all
But you've got to fly cause you're hearin' them young eagles call
Someday when you're older you'll smile at a man strong and tall
And say I've got a couple more years on you baby that's all.

You'll say I've got a couple more years on you baby that's all
I've had more chances to fly and more places to fall
That's not that I'm wiser it's just that I've spent
More time with my back to the wall...

"A Legend In My Time"


If heartaches brought fame in love's crazy game
I'd be a legend a living legend in my time
If they gave gold statues for tears and regrets
I'd be a legend a living legend in my time.

But they don't give awards and there's no praise or fame
For a heart that's been broken over love that's in vain
If loneliness meant world acclaim everyone would know my name
I'd be a legend a living in my time.

[Instrumental]

But they don't give awards and there's no praise or fame
For a heart that's been broken over love that's in vain
If loneliness meant world acclaim everyone would know my name
I'd be a legend a living in my time...

"A Long Time Ago"



I don't look the way the average cowboy singer looks
I'll admit I've taken things I never should of took
You can read a different story in a lot of different books
But even then you won't really know
How it was a long time ago

Women have been my trouble since I found out they weren't men
In spite of that I stopped and took a wife now and then
They built their fences high but they couldn't hold me in
I was born with a fire down below
And I learned to fly a long time ago

Don't ask me about the years I spent out in the rain
About the ones I spent in love or the ones I spent insane
Don't ask me who I gave my seat to on that plane
I think you already know
I told you that a long time ago

Me and ol' Willie, lordy we've been sold and bought
I guess y'all heard about some kind of system that we fought
We ain't the only outlaws just the only ones they caught
They tried to run us off but Willie's slow
I quit running a long time ago

"A Lot Of Good"



As I watched the tail lights disappear
Suddenly it got real lonely here
I know the words I could have said
To make her turn around
But a lot of good it's gonna do me now

I could have started with i'm sorry
And really meant it from the heart
The rest would have been easy
Together in the dark

We could have found that old time feeling
That we lost somewhere somehow
But a lot of good it's gonna do me now

Still thinking about the things I could have said
And looking at her picture by the bed
I realized just what I've lost as I pulled the covers down
But a lot of good it's gonna do me now

I could have told her I was sorry
And really meant it from the heart
The rest would have been easy
Together in the dark

We could have found that old time feeling
That we lost somewhere somehow
But a lot of good it's gonna do me now
A lot of good it's gonna do me now

"A Love Song (I Can't Sing Anymore)"



I know some things must change
Nothin' stays the same
Life dont' always go along with how we feel
But no matter how it goes
There's one thing I know
Once you've loved someone you always will

When it comes to me and you
There's one thing that I won't do
I won't try to hate some one I've loved before
You'll remain a part of me
Like a song I used to sing
A love song I can't sing anymore
You're a love song I can't sing anymore

You'll remain a part of me
Like a song I used to sing
A love song I can't sing anymore
You're a love song I can't sing anymore

"Abilene"



Abilene, Abilene,
Prettiest town I've ever seen
Women there don't treat you mean
In Abilene, my Abilene.

I sit alone most every night
Watch those trains pull out of sight
Don't I wish they were carrying me
Back to Abilene, my Abilene.

Abilene, Abilene,
Prettiest town I've ever seen
Women there don't treat you mean
In Abilene, my Abilene.

Crowded city, ain't nothing free
Nothing in this old town for me
Wish to the Lord that I could be
In Abilene, sweet Abilene.

Abilene, Abilene,
Prettiest town I've ever seen
Women there don't treat you mean
In Abilene, my Abilene...

"Ain't No God In Mexico"



Down the road a ways I've heard said
A new day's coming on
Where the women folks are friendly
And the law leaves you alone.

I'll believe it when I see it
And I haven't seen it yet
Don't mind me just keep on talking
I'm just looking for my hat.

There ain't no God in Mexico
Ain't no way to understand
How that border crossing feeling
Makes a fool out of a man.

If I'd never felt the sunshine
Hell, I would not curse the rain
If my feet could fit a railroad track
I guess I'd been a train.

Me and Louise Higgins Botham
Used to chase across the yard
Back in 1947 that's when
More than times were hard.

Well, pity me I didn't find
The line in time like a fool
In front of God and everybody
I politely blew my cool.

Ain't no God in Mexico
Ain't no comfort in the kin
When you're down in Madamoris
Gettin' busted by the man.

If I'd never felt the sunshine
Hell, I would not curse the rain
If I hadn't been railroaded
Well I guess I'd been a train...

"All Around Cowboy"



Just a broken down cowboy, all down on his luck
Been through the best of his friends
On a long lonesome highway in an old pick-up truck
Crossed Texas like a hot dusty wind

He was all around cowboy back in '49
From the top, it's been long way down
Since the whiskey and the women, started winnin' his time
They rode him high and hard to the ground

He remembers the thrill of bein' a winner
In the days of his first rodeo
But there's somethin' about winning
That didn't last forever
Maybe tomorrow things'll get better
If the devil lets loose of his soul
He'll be, be the all around cowboy again

So, he rolls up a smoke and he sips his Old Crow
Wipes the whiskers that cover his chin
And he grins as he dreams of old rodeo
He's the all around cowboy again

He remembers the thrill of bein' a winner
In the days of his first rodeo
But there's somethin' about winning
That didn't last forever
Maybe tomorrow things'll get better
If the devil lets loose of his soul
He'll be, be the all around cowboy again

"All Of Me Belongs To You"


All of me belongs to you all the time
You're the only one that's ever on my mind
There's no way that I would ever be untrue
There's not one single part of me
That don't miss you through and through
All of me belongs to you.

My eyes're worthless when you're not here to see
My lips would be forgotten if you forgotten me
My arms ached from reaching out to you the way they do
There's not one single part of me
That don't miss you through and through
All of me belongs to you.

Fingers claw the darkness in my dreams
Searchin' for a love I lost, I can't redeem
I'm yours and I can't give my heart to someone new
There's not one single part of me that my heart don't include
All of me belongs to you.

[Instrumental]

All of me belongs to you...

"All Of My Sisters Are Girls"



All of my sisters are girls
With long hair, ponytails, pigtails and curls
A kid needs a friend so why in the world
Did all of my sisters just have to be girls

They giggle and whisper a lot
They act like they're grown up but I know they're not
They can climb a tree and they can't catch a ball
They're really no fun at all

All of my sisters are girls
With long hair, ponytails, pigtails and curls
A kid needs a friend so why in the world
Did all of my sisters just have to be girls

When I'm bored with nothing to do
I can have fun whenever I want to
I just hide in the closet so they won't know I'm there
And they're really easy to scare

All of my sisters are girls
With long hair, ponytails, pigtails and curls
A kid needs a friend so why in the world
Did all of my sisters just have to be girls

All of my sisters are girls
With long hair, ponytails, pigtails and curls
A kid needs a friend so why in the world
Did all of my sisters just have to be girls

"Alone"



Isn't there anyone
Who'll take me like I am
Someone who's willing
To take the blue in man.

Someone that's pleased enough
With himself to let me be
Someone who'd love me
And try to understand my needs.

No, I guess there isn't
And there's no place
I can go I guess
I'm destined to be alone.

Good thing that somewhere
In this world there'll be
Someone who wouldn't
Always try to change me.

Someone not trying to prove
Their way is right
Take a flame that's burnin'
And just put out the light.

No I guess there isn't
And there's no place
I can go I guess
I'm destined to be alone...

"Amanda"



I've held it all inward, God knows, I've tried,
But it's an awful awakening in a country boy's life,
To look in the mirror in total surprise.
At the hair on my shoulders and the age in my eyes.

Amanda, light of my life.
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.
Amanda, light of my life.
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.

It's a measure of people who don't understand,
The pleasures of life in a hillbilly band.
I got my first guitar when I was fourteen,
Well I finally made forty, still wearing jeans.

Amanda, light of my life.
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.
Amanda, light of my life.
Fate should have made you a gentleman's wife.

"Angel Eyes"



Angel eyes, angel eyes
The ways of the world are feeble
Don't give up on simple people
Angle eyes, stardust nights
The blues you can't live without
It's not what you song's about.

Angel eyes, angel eyes
Tell me what would we do
Without the light from angel eyes?

You can move the hearts of men
With just a phrase you're turnin'
Since hearts ever have to burnin'
Burn with us, burn so long
Thin lines you've been living on
It's so close to the danger zone.

Angel eyes, angel eyes
Tell me what would we do
Without no light from angel eyes?

"Anita, You're Dreaming"


Anita, come closer
Stop crying and listen to me
I guess it's too late now
But somehow I must make you see.
What we thought was our world
Was only a dream world
And we just can't go on like this
Anita, you're dreaming
Of a world that can never exist.

Anita, it's over
There's nothing that's left now to say
Anita, you're dreaming
And I know it's better this way.

[Instrumental]

Anita, come closer
And close your pretty blue eyes
Your young dreams just can't be
And somehow you must realize.
And each time you're with me
My conscience reminds me
Of someone who's waiting alone
Anita, you're dreaming
And when you awake, I'll be gone.

Anita it's over
There's nothing that's left now to say
Anita, you're dreaming
And I know it's better this way...

"Another Bridge To Burn"



I've had to burn most every bridge I've crossed
It seems like everything I've loved I'd lost
When I met you I've thought my luck had turned
But our love's just another bridge to burn.

So, I'll soon light the fire and move on
Oh, I've already been here much too long
I'm so hurt and you're so unconcerned
But our love's just another bridge to burn.

Sometimes one must love enough for two
And that's the way it's been with me and you
I'll see your face no matter where I'll turn
But that will be another bridge to burn.

So, I'll soon light the fire and move on
Oh, I've already been here much too long
I'm so hurt and you're so unconcerned
But our love's just another bridge to burn.

Our love's just another bridge to burn...

"Another Man's Fool"



Don't sing them songs about the open road
I've lost too many rainbows chasin' pots of gold
I still remember what my baby said
It's still a knockin' 'round in back of my head

She said, "I'm gonna lock the doors around about midnight
Put bars on the window like a zoo
You ain't the man that reaches up to turn out my light
You're just another man's fool, just another man's fool"

I left this mornin', had just one more chance
She caught me leavin' by the seat of my pants
She said, "Go on, get out and have a good time
Don't bother comin' home if you can't bring me mine"

She said, "I'm gonna lock the doors around about midnight
Put bars on the window like a zoo
You ain't the man that reaches up to turn out my light
You're just another man's fool, just another man's fool"

She said, "I'm gonna lock the doors around about midnight
Put bars on the window like a zoo
You ain't the man that reaches up to turn out my light
You're just another man's fool, just another man's fool"

"Are You Ready For The Country"
(originally by Neil Young)



Slippin' and a slidin' playin' Dominos
Leftin' and a rightin' ain't a crime you know
Well, I gotta tell the story
Before it's time to go.

Are you ready for the country
Are you ready for me
Are you ready for the country
Ain't that a sight to see?

Talkin' to a preacher
Said God was on his side
Talkin' to a butcher
They both were sellin' hides.

Well, I gotta tell the story boys
I don't know the reason why

Are you ready for the country
Are you ready for me
Are you ready for the country
Ain't that a sight to see?

Are you ready for the country
Are you ready for me
Are you ready for the country
Ain't that a sight to see?...