Story Behind The Song
What if Willie Nelson's guitar could tell the story of Willie from it's perspective?
| Song Length |
3:36 |
Genre |
Country - Traditional, Country - General |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Pleasant |
Subject |
Instruments, Musician |
| Similar Artists |
Willie Nelson |
Language |
English |
| Era |
1970 - 1979 |
| |
Lyrics
He's had my back like a brother for all my life
Been a constant companion closer than a wife
We've danced in all the honky tonks, played beneath the stars..
He slung me on his shoulder I'm Willies' Guitar.
Willies fingers make my strings sing sweeter than a robin waking up in spring
With those melodies of magic he always picks on me.
The feeling lingers, Willie's fingers.
On the road we've traveled, Vancouver to the Keys.
They cheered in bars and county fairs when he played "All of Me".
We got high on sweet old love songs and other crazy things.
Wailin' all the notes out real proud when he bent my strings.
Chorus
He took me up to nashville we lived there for a while
But his outlaw ways and that hole on my face made the opry folk just smile.
He once let Waylon hold me but it didn't go so right
'Cuz no one really knows me like....
Chorus