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Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood,
and you're the one I need.
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I'd sing more about more of this land, but all God's children aren't free.
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We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.
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I can sing songs of death. I've seen a lot of it. But I'm obsessed with life.
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There is that beast there in me, and I got to keep him caged, or he'll eat me alive.
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San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.
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I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Living in the hopeless hungry side of town.
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To tell you the truth, I don't think about death at all. What's to think about? I enjoy my life now.
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My music is not country-Western. A am a country boy, and a lot of my music has a country sound to it.
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I can work in that garden all morning and I'm ready to come in here and make the show in the afternoon.
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I never did drink badly; a beer now and then, but I don't like it. It burns up my energy, makes me sleepy.
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He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
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I keep my eyes wide open all the time,
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds,
Because you're mine,
I walk the line.
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Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.
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Sometimes I'll have a breakfast sandwich, which is two fried eggs with crisp bacon on cinnamon toast. It's good, it really is. You want one?
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I used to get high and think I was an Indian flyin' through the woods. Till I woke up beside the lake with no shoes on and my foot in a stumphole there.
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I generally get an idea for a song every time I'm fishin' or out in the woods. That's generally when songs come to me. I write 'em down after I come home.
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Drug abuse runs through this family like a turkey through the corn. Man, it's terrible. We're just trying to save him, trying to snatch him up before he goes.
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Oh but I love that rain. You know: back in that shack. It came on to rain. I stripped down to my shorts and just lay on the rock and let it come down on me like bricks.
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I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.
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There's always rhythm going in my mind. … I'm either singing them — June will tell you, I'm either singing them, or I have got the beat going from one, or I'm writing one.
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I think everybody should serve their time for their country. I did. It's not up to every man to decide when it's time to go defend our country. We elect men to decide that for us.
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I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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I thank God for all the freedom we have in this country, I cherish it – even the right to burn the flag. But we also have the right to bear arms and if you burn my flag – I'll shoot you!
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Success is having to worry about every damned thing in the world, except money. I still don't understand it. If you don't have any time for yourself, any time to hunt or fish, that's success?
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
February 26, 1932
Died:
September 12, 2003
(aged 71)
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