[ti:Me And Willie (Remastered LP Version)] [ar:Emmylou Harris] [al:Luxury Liner] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Me and Willie (2003 Remaster) - Emmylou Harris [00:05.84]Me and Willie played in a country band [00:13.92]Seven long years together [00:16.97]Playing those one night stands [00:21.81]Used to say the booze and bars [00:25.69]Is going to wear him out [00:29.81]Hold on a song he wrote [00:33.59]Tear your heart right out [00:38.91]We traveled the northern route [00:40.77]And from the Greate Lakes to Monreal [00:46.82]Hitting all the honkytonks [00:50.69]I bet we played them all [00:55.20]Willie played to ease his soul and [00:59.12]Drank to ease his mind [01:02.85]I never understood how he played it so good while [01:07.33]Drinking himself half blind [01:10.81]And you [01:11.84]Wouldn't think a man so weak [01:15.87]Could be so strong [01:20.08]Take a crowd of rowdy drunks and [01:24.14]Hush them with a song [01:26.36]And I'd rather be singing my heart out [01:33.15]In a dark and dingy bar [01:37.34]Hitting those high notes with [01:40.66]Willie's sad guitar [01:42.93]And I'd rather be singing a blues song [01:50.10]Singing sweet and high [01:55.33]Willie standing right by my side [01:59.37]Playing country slide [02:06.56]Me and Willie watched a lot of dreams die young [02:14.05]Plans we made how quick they fade [02:17.80]Fumbling one by one [02:22.96]Willie never let it bother him and if he did [02:26.98]It didn't show [02:30.18]You know he had a way of letting go [02:34.60]Am the blue times old [02:37.89]And you wouldn't think a man so weak [02:43.73]Could be so strong [02:47.29]Take the blues right out of you [02:51.32]And put them in a song [02:53.77]I'd rather be singing my heart out [03:00.55]In a dark and dingy bar [03:04.59]Hitting those high notes with [03:07.94]Willie's sad guitar [03:10.19]And I'd rather be singing a blues song [03:17.37]Singing sweet and high [03:22.62]Willie standing right by my side [03:26.77]Playing country slide [03:56.53]I left Willie in a bar in Marietta [04:03.84]Couldn't stand to watch the man [04:06.18]I love drink himself to death [04:11.27]Now I'm working in Ottawa [04:15.21]And I'm doing well I guess [04:19.61]You know the good life don't look so good [04:24.56]From behind a desk [04:26.84]And I'd rather be singing my heart out [04:33.43]In a dark and dingy bar [04:37.64]Hitting those high notes with [04:40.88]Willie's sad guitar [04:43.47]And I'd rather be singing a blues song [04:50.55]Singing sweet and high [04:55.60]Willie standing right by my side [04:59.79]Playing country slide