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Jerry Jeff Walker - Stoney Lyrics

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  • I first ran into Stoney. . . it was a bar downtown;
  • Was Richmond, Virginia. . . we were bumming around,
  • Suitcase to suitcase. . . we started him talking,
  • Finding out about the things we've shared in the miles we've been.
  • He had a gray pillowcase full of books by Durrell,
  • And he had this old concertina, all beat up and she played like hell,
  • Until you got him started singing those Gospel songs,
  • Well, he drank all night for nothing, he told his stories till dawn.
  • And he said, "Come on, get your bag, boy! Sun's up now and it's time to roll!
  • Hell, you know there ain't no better time than early in the morning
  • To be out walking down that road!
  • Just feeling another day beginning while some fools just rushing on by,
  • We'll be like some Mr. Independence: we're taking our own sweet time!"
  • We walked on out that highway under a clear blue sky,
  • I's listening to the tales he told, drinking warm red wine.
  • 'Bout the night he rolled seven; bout some girl he'd done wrong;
  • 'Bout everything he could think of while we walked along.
  • Yeah, ol' Stoney had a magic; made him hard to forget.
  • Like the night we flew down the highway (his old pickup, it nearly wrecked!)
  • Was a crazy woman driving, all drunked up and carrying on;
  • Till Stoney finally calmed her singing those Gospel songs.
  • Well, we split the road at Norwood, and he just shook my hand.
  • He said, "I'll see you some place, friend," but you know he never has.
  • But we were that free then, just walking down the road,
  • Never really caring where that highway goes.
  • Yeah, Stoney was a liar (a bullshitter!) ain't no doubt about it.
  • It was just the way he told things, and you never want to doubt him.
  • 'Cause he kept you going when the road got rough,
  • And brought you through the lean times by making it up.
  • "Hey, did I ever tell you the time I married my cousin up in Las Vegas?"
  • Yeah, Stoney. Tell it again, will you?

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