Me and Willie

Me and Willie played in a country band

Seven long years together playing those one night stands

Used to say the booze and bars were goin' to wear him out

Hold On, a song he wrote, tear your heart right out

We traveled the northern route from the Great Lakes to Montreal

Hitting all the honkytonks, I bet we played them all

Willie played to ease his soul and drank to ease his mind

I never understood how he played so good

While drinking himself half-blind

And you wouldn't think a man so weak could be so strong

Take a crowd of rowdy drunks, hush them with a song and I'd

Rather be singing my heart out in a dark and dingy bar

Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar and I'd

Rather be singing a blues song, singing sweet and high

Willie standing right by my side playing country slide

Me and Willie, oh we watched a lot of dreams die young

Plans we made, how quick they fade, fumblin' one by one

Willie never let it bother him and if he did, well it didn't show

You know he had a way of lettin' go, making blue turn gold

And you wouldn't think a man so weak could be so strong

Take the blues right out of you, put them in a song and I'd

Rather be singing my heart out in a dark and dingy bar

Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar and I'd

Rather be singing a blues song, singing sweet and high

Willie standing right by my side playing country slide

I left Willie in a bar in Marietta

Couldn't stand to watch the man I love drink himself to death

Now I'm working in Ottawa and I'm doing well, I guess

You know the good life don't look so good from behind a desk and I'd

Rather be singing my heart out in a dark and dingy bar

Hitting those high notes with Willie's sad guitar and I'd

Rather be singing a blues song, singing sweet and high

Willie standing right by my side playing country slide