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[Verse]
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I shoplifted an 8-track tape from J.C. Penny's when I was young
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One called "The Silver Tongued Devil" by the great Kristofferson
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I caught Bob Dylan on that Johnny Cash TV show
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Turned me on to Willie Nelson, Lord, with nowheres left to go
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'Til that first time I saw Waylon
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At Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga Tennessee
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Oh that first time I saw Waylon
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Elvis and the Beatles didn't mean a damn thing to me
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Oh my uncle saw that look in my eye
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Said that boy will never work another day in his life
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That Telecaster chicken-pickin' rhythm just sent me sailin'
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Oh that first time I saw Waylon
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Singin' them Billy Joe Shaver songs
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Lord that first time I saw Waylon
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They turned around and I was gone
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[Verse]
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Lord that first time I saw Waylon
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That stringy hair and barely hangin' on
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Lord that first time I saw Waylon
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Then I turned around and he was gone
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Long gone
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Long gone
