He said,
I'm just a country boy who tried to do his best
If folks remember that much,
I won't mind all the rest
A real old -fashioned gentleman,
they called him
Mr.
O
He still loved the music that
he first learned as a boy
As a child I heard him
on my radio at night
He sang
Great
Speckled
Bird and then I saw the light
He was the king of country music
Loved by one and all
Now he's riding off to glory on the
Wabash
Cannonball
He could play that fiddle and
make the world stand still
Sound just like a cold wind
blowing through the hills
Moaning like a freight train on a
Chattanooga run
And singing like an angel
who's dancing in the sun
As a child I heard him
on my radio at night
He sang
Great
Speckled
Bird and then I saw the light
He was the king of country music
Loved by one and all
And now he's riding off to glory
On the
Wabash
Cannonball
So you can play your banjo
And you can say your prayers
Sure as there's a heaven, I know
Mr.
Roy's up there
He's singing,
will the circle be unbroken by and by
His better home was way up in the sky,
Lord, in the sky
As a child I heard him on my radio at night
He sang
Great
Speckled
Bird and then I saw the light
He was the king of country music,
loved by one and all
Now he's riding off to glory on the
Wabash
Cannonball
Now he's riding off to glory on the
Wabash
Cannonball
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