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Waylon Jennings

Dreaming My Dreams

Bob Wills Is Still The King

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Spoken intro: Here's a song I wrote on a plane between Dallas and Austin... going to El Paso. Whoops. No, this is what gave us the idea to come down here. This is a song about a guy that probably did as much for our kind of music as anybody.

Well the honky-tonks in Texas were my natural second home
Where you tip your hats to the ladies and the rose of San Antone
I grew up on music that we called western swing
It don't matter who's in Austin, Bob Wills is still the king

Lord I can still remember, the way things were back then
In spite of all the hard times, I'd live it all again
To hear the Texas playboys and Tommy Duncan sing
Makes me proud to be from Texas where Bob Wills is still the king

You can hear the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville Tennessee
It's the home of country music, on that we all agree But when you cross
that ol' Red River hoss that just don't mean a thing
Cause once you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king

Well if you ain't never been there then I guess you ain't been told
That you just can't live in Texas unless you got a lot of soul
It's the home of Willie Nelson
the home of western swing
He'll be the first to tell you: Bob Wills is still the king