Don't tell us how it really was When you was working with daddy
Well, in 1950, I took a little nip Along with Mr. Williams on the way to Mississippi We was stacked 8 deep in a Packard limousine And we met this promoter in the town of New Orleans
Now the man told daddy that he had what it took And he liked the way he sang and he liked the way he shook He said, pretty soon he'd make us all rich And we started believing that fat sum bitch
Daddy told the man, "If you wanna make some dough Take a little money and book me on a show" And we played them dates and we filled the places well But Hank, he'd done blowed the profits all to hell
'Cause he'd run through a 10 and he'd run through a 20 And he'd run through a 100 just as fast as it could go Like a big dose of sauce to a little bitty fella He'd spend a 1000 dollars on a 100 dollar show
Hank looked at me with a funny looking grin Said, "I've been to the Opry and I'm going back again" We met the owner in a little office there And a big fat fella with some artificial hair
He told Hank, he wanted half of everything he made Or he'd have to tell Audrey 'bout some women Hank had laid And you told daddy, he'd better get smart Get rid of them fellas and make a new start
And he fired my ass and he fired Jerry Rivers And he fired everybody just as hard as he could go He fired old Cedric and he fired Sammy Pruitt And he fired some people that he didn't even know
Well, every song he made it went to number one Y'all was working like hell and you was having fun We was riding every day and playing every night And every 20 minutes some of us had a fight
Now, daddy he was making money hand over fist And y'all was getting screwed but you wasn't getting kissed Yeah, I told him to pass a little bit around But he said, he'd rather send it to his folks in Alabama
So he fired your ass and he fired Jerry Rivers And he fired everybody just as hard as he could go He fired old Cedric and he fired Sammy Pruitt And he fired some people that he didn't even know
Now the owner of the Opry, he's a doing pretty good He's got a music company that they call Cedarwood And Hank played nothing but sold out halls And I was pumping gas in greasy overalls
'Cause he fired my ass and he fired Jerry Rivers And he fired everybody just as hard as he could go He fired old Cedric and he fired Sammy Pruitt And he fired some people that he didn't even know
Hank run through a 50 and he'd run through a 100 And he'd run through a 1000 just as hard as he could go Buying Cadillac coots, paying double alimony And he fired some people that he didn't even know
Don you know, you know You used to work for me one time? I sure know that come but come to think of it You fired my ass back in 1972
Oh, well it's a family tradition ya know? Yap, yap, yap, yap But I kept Jerry Rivers Right, rightTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
