Waylon Jennings - A Long Time Ago

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I don't look the way the average cowboy singer looks

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I'll admit I've taken things I never should'a took

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You can read a different story in a lot of different books

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But even then you won't really know

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How it was a long time ago



Women have been my trouble since I found out they weren't men

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In spite of that I stopped and took a wife now and then

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They built their fences high but they couldn't hold me in

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I was born with a fire down below

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And I learned to fly a long time ago



Don't ask me about the years I spent out in the rain

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About the ones I spent in love or the ones I spent insane

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Don't ask me who I gave my seat to on that plane

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I think you already know

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I told you that a long time ago



Me and ol' Willie Lordy we've been sold and bought

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I guess y'all heard about some kind of system that we fought

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We ain't the only outlaws just the only ones they caught

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They tried to run us off but Willie's slow

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I quit running a long time ago