6.

Bob Wills Is Still The King

Waylon Jennings

© Baron Music, BMI

Here's a song I wrote on a plane between Dallas and Austin goin' to El Paso whoops
Now this is what gave this idea to come down right here
This is a song about a guy
That prob'ly 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 hat the the ladies and the Rose of San Antone
I grew up on music that we call 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
Inspite of all the hard time I'd live it all again
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 Ole Opry in Nashville Tennessee
It's the home of country music on that we all agree
But when you cross old Red River hoss that just don't mean a thing
Once you're down in Texas Bob Wills is still the king
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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 lotta 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

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