I was out in Lubbock, Texas a few years back,
and we had a show at the 19th Street Warehouse.
And I had driven from
eastern New Mexico to get there.
And to get to Lubbock from Clovis, New Mexico,
you got to go through a little town called Littlefield,
which
is where Waylon Jennings was born and where he grew up
before he was in the crickets and then before he became
the guy you know about who I'm talking about,
before he became Waylon Jennings.
He was a West Texas kid.
So anyway,
I was at the gig that night trying to figure out,
you know, something special
to do,
trying to get a little spark,
and figured we'd work up an old Waylon cover.
So we did, and it stuck.
I went and recorded it
actually the day after he died.
We went to a studio,
we went to Willie Nelson's studio in Perdon,
Alice,
just outside of Austin.
We had a session book to do some of my own demos,
four or five songs,
and we decided
to blow those off and pay respects to a very inspirational character,
old Hoss,
Waylon Jennings.
♪ I'm out of line and I'm messing with my mind ♪
♪ If you had any sense you'd quit ♪
♪ Yeah,
cause ever since you were a little bitty teeny girl ♪
♪ You said I was the only man in this whole world ♪
♪ Now you'd better do some thinking,
then you'll find ♪
♪ You got the only daddy that'll walk the line ♪
♪ I keep working every day,
all you wanna do is play ♪
♪ I'm tired of staying out all night ♪
♪ You keep coming unglued from your funny little moves ♪
♪ Now honey, that ain't right ♪
♪ Yeah,
cause ever since you were a little bitty teeny girl ♪
♪ You said I was the only man in this whole world ♪
♪ Now you'd better do some thinking,
then you'll find ♪
♪ You got the only daddy that'll walk the line ♪
♪ You keep packing all my clothes,
everybody knows ♪
♪ That you still just put me on ♪
♪ Yeah,
cause when I start walking,
I hear you start squawking ♪
♪ Yeah,
cause ever since you were a little bitty teeny girl ♪
♪ You said I was the only man in this whole world ♪
♪ Now you'd better do some thinking,
then you'll find ♪
♪ You got the only daddy that'll walk the line ♪
♪ You got the only daddy that'll walk the line ♪
♪ You got the only...
♪