 Genius Lyrics
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Willie Nelson – On the Road Again
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Willie Nelson starred as an aging rocker in the film Honeysuckle Rose. While on an airplane flight, he was asked to write a song about ‘being on the road’ for the film by director
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Willie Nelson – Summertime
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Summertime / And the livin' is easy / Fish are jumpin' / And the cotton is high / Your daddy's rich / And your mamma's good lookin' / So hush little baby / Don't you cry / One of
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Willie Nelson – Always on My Mind
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“Always on my Mind” by Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson appears on the 1982 Willie Nelson album of the same name.
This song won Country Music Association’s Song of
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The Lacs (Ft. Nate Kenyon) – Willie Nelson
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[Intro] / Good luck tryin' to get in you'll need some help / Truck so high they call it Willie Nelson / Good luck tryin' to get in you'll need some help / Truck so high they call
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Willie Nelson – The Troublemaker
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[Verse] / I could tell the moment that I saw him / He was nothing but the troublemaking kind / His hair was much too long and his motley group of friends / Had nothing but
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Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson – Pancho and Lefty
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This is a story song about a Mexican bandit named Pancho and his friend Lefty. In the story, it’s hinted that Lefty betrayed Pancho to the Federales. They killed Pancho and let
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Willie Nelson – Denver
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“Denver” is the first track on side two of the original LP, and it finds the Stranger has moved on, just as predicted earlier. He’s arrived in Denver, Colorado, and found the town
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Willie Nelson – Funny How Time Slips Away
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Nelson wrote this in 1961 for Patsy Cline, one of only a few big names in Nashville at the time who understood him. Nelson was eventually rejected by the Nashville labels as too
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Willie Nelson & Lucinda Williams – Live Forever
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[Verse 1: Willie Nelson] / I'm gonna live forever / I'm gonna cross that river / I'm gonna catch tomorrow now / You're gonna wanna hold me / Just like I always told you / You're
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Clutch – Willie Nelson
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[Verse 1] / Black-jackbooted demons / Have surrounded my home / Got dogs and ‘copters / And keep ringing my phone / [Chorus] / Well I don’t know if I’m coming or going / If it’s
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Willie Nelson – Dallas
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[Verse 1] / She's like a beautiful lady with a Mona Lisa smile, Dallas / And she can charm you in her own Texas style, Dallas / Would you believe she named her airport Love? / Just
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Willie Nelson – City of New Orleans
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“A good buddy of mine named Steve Goodman wrote this song”, in the words of David Allan Coe. The song is more famous for Arlo Guthrie’s version, but it was also covered by fellow
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Willie Nelson – Georgia on My Mind
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[Verse] / Georgia, Georgia / The whole day through / An' just an old sweet song / Keeps Georgia on my mind / Georgia, Georgia / A song of you / Comes as sweet and clear / As
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Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
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“Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” was written by Fred Rose in 1945. It was first recorded by Roy Acuff, then by Hank Williams Sr, and later by Willie Nelson.
Some interpret the song
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Willie Nelson – Busted
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[Verse 1] / My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm busted / Cotton is down to a quarter a pound and I'm busted / I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay
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Willie Nelson (Ft. Norah Jones) – Walkin'
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After carefully considerin' the whole situation / I stand with my back to the wall / Walkin' is better than runnin' away / And crawlin' ain't no good at all / And if guilty's the
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Willie Nelson & Bobbie Nelson – Just as I Am
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Charlotte Elliott wrote the lyrics and William Bradbury wrote the music to this English hymn in 1835.
The story to the song goes this way:
Elliott was visiting friends in Lon
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Willie Nelson – Mona Lisa
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[Verse] / Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you / You're so like the lady with the mystic smile / Is it only because you're lonely they have blamed you? / For that Mona Lisa
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Willie Nelson – Cruel World
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-POTENTIAL SPOILERS BELOW-
This is the version of Red Dead Redemption 2’s “Cruel World” that appears in Epilogue pt. I as John leaves Pronghorn Ranch. The lyrics in relation to
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Willie Nelson – Remember Me
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You told me once you were mine, alone, forever / An' I was yours till the end of eternity / But all those vows are broken now an' I will never / Be the same except in memory
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Willie Nelson – Good Times
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[Verse 1] / When I ran to the store with a penny / And when youth was abundant and plenty / Classify these as good times / Good times / [Verse 2] / When I rolled rubber tires in
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Willie Nelson – My Way
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[Verse 1] / And now, the end is near / And so I face the final curtain / My friend, I'll say it clear / I'll state my case, of which I'm certain / I've lived a life that's full / I
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Willie Nelson – Night Life
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[Verse 1] / When the evening sun goes down / You will find me hanging round / The night life ain't no good life / But it's my life / [Verse 2] / Many people just like me / Dreaming
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Willie Nelson – Buddy
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Although Nelson has never explained the song, some believe it’s a tribute to his old friend and producer Buddy Cannon, with whom Nelson wrote many songs.
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Willie Nelson – Hands on the Wheel
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“Hands on the Wheel” is and unabashed love song. It’s based on “O'er the Waves”, found earlier on the album, and written by Juventino Rosas. In his story of The Red Headed Stranger
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Vincent Neil Emerson – Willie Nelson's Wall
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[Verse 1] / I'm high was a fly on Willie Nelson's wall / And I can't remember where I am at all / And I don't know where my mind has taken me / My boots in my hand, and my hat on
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Willie Nelson – Little Things
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[Verse 1] / I hope I won't disturb you with this call / I'm just in town for such a little while / And I thought perhaps you'd like to hear the news / Jeannie's grades were the
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Willie Nelson (Ft. Ray Charles) – Seven Spanish Angels
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This is a song about a Mexican bandit and his girl. They’ve reached the end of their ride, but they know they will be together again.
It’s a song in the tradition of Marty Robbins
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Willie Nelson – Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
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[Verse 1] / Well, I woke up Sunday morning / With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt / And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad / So I had one more for dessert / Then I
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Willie Nelson (Ft. Jamey Johnson, Kris Kristofferson & Snoop Dogg) – Roll Me Up
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Nelson presents a cavalier attitude about his own death, and gives a nod to his well known position on marijuana. He’s joined by Snoop Dogg (who sounds peculiarly country), Kris
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Willie Nelson – Truck Drivin' Man (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Well I stopped at a whore house in Texas / A little place called Hamburger Dan / And I threw the waitress through the juke box / When she played a truck drivin' man / [
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Willie Nelson & Shirley Collie – Willingly
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[Verse 1: Shirley Collie, Willie Nelson & Both] / Willingly I fell in love with you / Willingly I learned to love you too / Though we both knew that it was wrong to someone else we
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Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel – Hesitation Blues
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[Verse 1] / Woke up this morning looking for my shoes / Looked behind the trunk, found the hesitation blues / [Refrain] / Lordy, tell me how long (Lordy, tell me how long) / Will I
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Willie Nelson – Red Headed Stranger
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The “Red Headed Stranger” completes of the story of the Stranger’s time in Montana. Nelson did not write the song, but it served as the basis for the rest of the album.
A song
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Willie Nelson – Me and Bobby McGee
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[Verse] / Busted flat in Baton Rouge headed for the trains feeling nearly faded as my jeans / Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained took us all the way to New Orleans
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Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson (Ft. Jamey Johnson) – It's All Going to Pot
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It’s all pickin ‘n grinnin, and an elaborate play on words. It’s also a marketing tie-in to Nelson’s new, “Willie’s Reserve” brand of marijuana introduced (when else?) on 4/20.
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Willie Nelson (Ft. Jody Payne) – Time of the Preacher
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“Time of the Preacher” is the beginning of a larger story in Nelson’s concept album, Red Headed Stranger.
This introductory track sets up the story, describing a man who has been
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Willie Nelson – Valentine
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[Verse] / Valentine won't you be my Valentine / And introduce your heart to mine and be my Valentine / Summertime we could run and play like summertime / With storybooks and
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Willie Nelson – Pretend I Never Happened
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[Chorus 1] / Pretend I never happened / Erase me from your mind / You will not want to remember / Any love as cold as mine / [Verse 1] / I'll be leaving in the morning / For a
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Willie Nelson – Wake Me When It's Over
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[Verse 1] / I'm getting tired now, I gotta get some sleep now / Guess I've been worried much too long / And don't wake me till it's over / When the need for you is gone / [Verse 2
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Willie Nelson – A Song for You
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[Verse 1] / Well I've been a lot of places in my life and time / I've sung a lot of songs and I've made some bad rhyme / I've acted out my love in stages with ten thousand people
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