The Conversation

Mel O'Joe

Hank Williams Jr. and Waylon Jennings

Intro	2	Bars	in	E

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W:	Hank let's talk about your daddy. Tell me how your momma loved that man?

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H: Well	just break out a bottle hoss. I'll tell you bout the driftin cowboy ba	nd.

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W: We wo	n't talk about the habits

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B: J	ust the music and the ma	n.

W: (That's All)

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W: Now	Hank, you just gotta tell me. Did your daddy really write all them songs? (Did He?)

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H: That d	on't deserve no answer hoss, let's light up and just move A	long.

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W: Do you think he	wrote em about your momma, or a	bout the man who done her w	rong?

H: (You know that)

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B: Y	eah back the	n they called him crazy, now a days they call him a s	aint.

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Now the one	s that called him crazy,	lord,are still writing on his na	me.

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W: Well if he was h	ere right now Bocefus, would he think that we were right? (Do you think he might?)

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H: Don't you k	now he would walk towards you, be right here by our s	ides.

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W: If we l	eft for a show in Dovan

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B: He'd be the f	irst one on the bus and ready to r	ide.

W: (that's wantin to go hoss)
H: (laughs)

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W: Where ever he i	s I hope he's happy, you know I hope he's doin

well.(Yes I do)

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H: He is cuz he's g	ot one arm around my momma now and he sure did

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Love miss audrey and raising h	ell.

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W: I won't a	sk you no more questions

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B: To the s	tories only hank can t	ell.

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B: Well back t	hen they called him crazy now a days they call him a s	aint.

H: Most folks don't know that they

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B: f	ired him from the opry,

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H:	and that caused his greatest p	ain.

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H: Let me t	ell you about lovesick, how miss audrey loved that man.

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W: You know I've al	ways loved to listen to the stories about that

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driftin cowboy b	and (and the man).

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H: Know when we g	et right

W: down to it.

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B:	Still the most wanted outlaw in the l	and.

Outro	E	A