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Verse 1
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Me and Willie played in
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a country band
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Seven long years together playing
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Used to say the booze and bars
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were goin' to wear him out
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Hold On, a song he wrote,
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tear your heart right out
Verse 2
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We traveled the northern route from the
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Great Lakes to Montreal
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Hitting all the honkytonks, I
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Willie played to ease his soul
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and drank to ease his mind
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While drinking himself half- blind
Verse 3
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And you wouldn't think a man so
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weak could be so strong
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Take a crowd of rowdy drunks,
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hush them with a song and I'd
Verse 4
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Rather be singing my heart out
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in a dark and dingy bar
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Hitting those high notes with Willie's
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Rather be singing a blues song,
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singing sweet and high
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Willie standing right by my side
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Verse 5
Me and Willie, oh we watched
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a lot of dreams die young
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Plans we made, how quick they fade,
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fumblin' one by one
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Willie never let it bother him and if he did,
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You know he had a way of lettin' go,
Verse 6
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And you wouldn't think a man so
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weak could be so strong
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Take the blues right out of you,
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put them in a song and I'd
Verse 7
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Rather be singing my heart out
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in a dark and dingy bar
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Hitting those high notes with Willie's
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Rather be singing a blues song,
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singing sweet an d high
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Willie standing right by my side playing
Interlude 1
country slide
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Verse 8
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I left Willie in a bar in Marietta
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Couldn't stand to watch the man
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I love drink himself to death
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Now I'm working in Ottawa and I'm doing well,
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You know the good life don't look so good
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from behind a desk and I'd
Verse 9
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Rather be singing my heart out
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in a dark and dingy bar
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Hitting those high notes with Willie's
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Rather be singing a blues song,
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singing sweet and high
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Willie standing right by my side
Outro 1
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