Me And Willie

Me and Willie played in a country band

Seven long years together playing those one night stands

Used to say the booze and bars is going to wear him out

Hold On, a song he wrote tear your heart right out

We traveled the northern route and from the Greate Lakes to Monreal

Hitting all the honkytonks, I bet we played them all

Willie played to ease his soul and drank to ease his mind

I never understood how he played it so good while drinking himseld half blind. And you..

Wouldn't think a Man so weak ... could be so

strong.... Take a crowd of rowdy drunks and

hush them with a song And I'd

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rather be singing my heart out in a dark and din|gy bar

Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar. And I'd

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rather be singing a blues song singing sweet and high

Willie standing right by my side playing country slide

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Me and Willie watched a lot of dreams die young.

Plans we made how quick they fade, fumbling one by one.

Willie never let it bother him and if he did, it didn't show.

You know he had a way of letting go am king the blue times old. And you ...

Wouldn't think a Man so weak ... could be so

strong.... Take a crowd of rowdy drunks and

hush them with a song And I'd

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rather be singing my heart out in a dark and din|gy bar

Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar. And I'd

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rather be singing a blues song singing sweet and high

Willie standing right by my side playing country slide

I left Willie in a bar in Marietta

Couldn't stand to watch the man I love drink himself to death.

Now I'm working in Ottawa and I'm doing well I guess.

You know the good life don't look so good from behind a desk And I'd

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rather be singing my heart out in a dark and din|gy bar

Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar. And I'd

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rather be singing a blues song singing sweet and high

Willie standing right by my side playing country slide