write a song

Chris sent this YouTube George Jones video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JTztFLMqq8, the reason being that it is relevant to recent discussions on this blog.

Billy Ray, not the others, is the one you want to emulate here:

“Well, we left home for anywhere me and Billy Ray
He was going to be going, and I was running away
Now, we were broke when we started and it got worse later on
I wrote home for money and Billy Ray wrote a song

Now, the people sure get picky when it comes to giving a ride
It didn’t take long, us leaving, but I thought we’d never arrive
Now, we did more hike than hitchin’ as we hitchhiked along
I got sore feet and blisters and Billy Ray wrote a song

Billy Ray wrote a song about everything we did
I was finding fault, he was finding rhymes that fit
Well we did a lot of thinking—most of my thoughts were wrong
I wanted to write a bad check, but Billy Ray wrote a song

Well, we got into Nashville tired, hungry and cold
If we had a dime between us we’d have called everybody we know
We found a bar still open a little band was picking away
And I sat in to drinking, Billy Ray sat in to play

He was an overnight sensation I heard the radio say
Somehow they failed to mention the miles all along the way
Anyway, that’s how it happened, and it sure happened strong
They wrote about it happening, Billy Ray wrote a song

Billy Ray wrote a song about everything he knew
If I’d-a known what I know now, I’d-a been writing too
Billy Ray sure has it made and I’m still tagging along
I’m writing home for money, Billy Ray’s still writing songs.”