
Date of issue: 23.02.2004
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
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 was going to wear him out |
«Hold On», a song he wrote’ll tear your heart right out |
We traveled the northern route from the Great Lakes to Montreal |
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 so good while drinking himself half-blind |
And you wouldn’t think a man so weak could be so strong |
Take a crowd of rowdy drunks, hush them with a song |
I’d rather be singing my heart out in a dark and dingy bar |
Hitting those high notes with Willie’s sad guitar |
And I’d rather be singing a blues song, singing sweet and high |
Willie standing right by my side playing country slide |
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, making the blue turn gold |
And you wouldn’t think a man so weak could be so strong |
Taking the blues right out of you and put them in a song |
I’d rather be singing my heart out in a dark and dingy bar |
Hitting those high notes with Willie’s sad guitar |
And I’d 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 rather be singing my heart out in a dark and dingy bar |
Hitting those high notes with Willie’s sad guitar |
I’d rather be singing a blues song, singing sweet and high |
Willie standing right by my side playing country slide |
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