The Conversation

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[Verse]
(Waylon)
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Hank let's talk about your daddy

Tell me how your momma loved that 
Man
(Hank)
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Well just break out a bottle hoss
I'll tell you bout the driftin' 
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cowboy band

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W:   We won't talk about the habits
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B:   Just the music and the man.

W:   (That's All)
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W:   Now Hank, you just gotta tell 
me.  Did your daddy really write all
     them songs? (Did He?)
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H:   That don't deserve no answer 
hoss, let's light up and just move
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     Along.
            B                      
W:   Do you think he wrote em about
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 your momma, or about the man who
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     done her wrong?

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H:   (You know that)

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B:   Yeah back then they called him 
crazy, now a days they call him a
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     saint.  Now the ones that 
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called him crazy, lord, are still
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     writing on his name.


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W:   Well if he was here right now 
Bocefus, would he think that we were
     right?  (Do you think he 
might?)
      A                     
H:   Don't you know he would 
Waltatia, be right here by our 
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sides.
      B
W:   If we left for a show at Provo
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B:   He'd be the first one on the 
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bus and ready to ride.

W: (that's wantin to go hoss)

H: (laughs)
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W:   Where ever he is I hope he's 
happy, you know I hope he's doin
     well.(Yes I do)
     A
H:   He is cuz he's got one arm 
around my momma now and he sure did
     Love miss audrey and raising 
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hell.
      B
W:   I won't ask you no more 
questions
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B:   To the stories only hank can 
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tell.
          A
B:   Well back then they called him 
crazy now a days they call him a
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     saint.
      A
H:   Most folks don't know that they

B:   fired him from the opry,
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H:   and that caused his greatest 
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pain.
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H:   Let me tell you about lovesick,
 how miss audrey loved that man.
      A
W:   You know I've always loved to 
listen to the stories about that
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     driftin cowboy band (and the 
man).
                       B
H:   Know when we get right

W:   down to it.
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B:   Still the most wanted outlaw 
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in the land.