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Billy Joe Shaver

My favorite lyrics in country music are his:

Way down in Louisiana
amongst the tall grown sugar canes
Lived a simple man and a Dominiker hen
and a rose of a different name

The first time I felt lightning
I was standing in the drizzlin' rain
With a trembling hand and a bottle of gin
and a rose of a different name

The devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord put a handle on this simple handed man
help me leave that black rose alone

When the devil made that woman
Lord she threw the pattern away
She was built for speed with the tools you need
to make a new fool every day

Way down deep and dirty
on the darker side of shame
I caught a cane cuttin' man with a bottle of gin
with a rose of a different name

The devil made me do it the first time
The second time I done it on my own
Lord put a handle on this simple handed man
help me leave that black rose alone
 
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Saw him at a small old church in Nash County about 15 years ago and at the berkeley cafe maybe 8-10 years ago. Absolute legend. RIP my good man and thank you for the music
 
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