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Diamond Rio - The Ballad Of Conley And Billy (The Proof's In The Pickin') Lyrics

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  • Screamn' whitewall tires and a guitar by his side
  • Billy's got the fever as he rolls on thru the night
  • Some were born to listen, some were born to play
  • He was lightning on the highstrings and thunder on the bass
  • Chorus
  • He could play it high, he could play it low
  • He could make it cry, he could make it moan
  • He knows when push comes to shove
  • the proof's in the pickin'
  • In a smoky little tavern just off of Bourbon Street
  • Tobacco stained fingers waited on the down beat
  • Conley was the master, the undisputed king
  • He'd ruled the town for thirty years
  • with an army of six strings
  • Chorus
  • Sometimes after midnight Billy drives through New Orleans
  • Straight to the French Quarter there's a man he has to see
  • The music is a raging like a city that's on fire
  • Billy felt just like an altar boy at the feet of a higher power
  • Conley watched as Billy walked across the room
  • Opened his case and started a tune
  • The whole club was silent and the lights were turned down low
  • Billy stepped up on the stage and Conley whispered Go son, go
  • Chorus
  • Conley held his hand up, no one made a sound
  • And he handed Bill his old archtop and stepped into the crowd
  • Billy played it soft, Billy played it sad
  • Then he made it talk and in came the band
  • Soon the room was shaking before Billy's wall of sound
  • And just a block off Bourbon Street, a new king's been crowned.
  • Chorus

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