The Conversation

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Intro:
MI

MI                         
Hank let's talk about your daddy 
                                 
MI7
tell me how your mama loved that man
     
LA
Well just break out a bottle hoss 
                                       
MI
I'll tell you bout the driftin' cowboy band
         
SI
We won't talk about the habits 
LA                      
MI
 just the music and the man

    
MI
Now Hank you just got to tell me 

did your daddy really write all them songs 

did he
LA
That don't deserve no answer hoss 
                              
MI
let's light up and just move along
                
SI
Do you think he wrote 'em about your mama 
LA                             
MI
 or about the man who done her wrong

You know that

          
LA
Well back then they called him crazy 
                         
MI
now days they call him a saint
        
LA
Now the ones that called him crazy 
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SI
 are still ridin' on his name

               
MI
Well if he was here right now Bocephus
                             
Would he think that we were right 

do you think he might
LA
Don't you know he would Watasha 
                
MI
be right by our side
      
SI                                   
LA
If we left for a show in Provo he'd be the first one 
                        
MI
on the bus and ready to ride...
         
Wherever he is I hope he's happy you know 
                      
I hope he's doin' well, yes I do
                     
LA
He is cause he's got one arm around my mama now
                                             
MI
And he sure did love Miss Audrey and raisin' hell
       
SI
I wont ask you no more questions 
LA                              
MI
 to the stories only Hank could tell

     
LA
Back then they called him crazy now a days 
                
MI
they call him a saint
   
Most folks don't know that 
     
LA
they fired him from the Opry
FA#7                          
SI
 And that caused his greatest pain

           
MI
I loved to tell you about lovesick 

how Miss Audrey loved that man
              
LA
You know I've always loved to listen

To the stories about 
                     
MI
that driftin' cowboy band and the man
                     
SI
You know when we get right down to it 
LA                                  
MI
still the most wanted outlaw in the land...

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