Текст песни Misc Unsigned Bands - Tom T Hall - The Year That Clayton Delaney Died

The Year That Clayton Delaney Died:Tom T. Hall.
CANADIAN RPM Country #6, US Country #1.
#42 CANADIAN RPM Singles #42 BB hot 100 on
MERCURY Records in 1971.

#1.

I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died.
They said for the last two weeks that he suffered 
and cried.
It made a big impression on me, although I was a 
barefoot kid.
They said he got religion at the end and I'm glad 
that he did.

#2.
Clayton was the best guitar picker in our town.
I thought he was a hero and I used to follow Clayton 
around.
I often wondered why Clayton, who seemed so good to me,
never took his guitar and made it down in Tenn-o-see.

#3.
Well, Daddy said he drank a lot, but I could never understand.
I knew he used to pick up in Ohio with a five-piece band.
Clayton used to tell me, son, you better put that old guitar 
away.
There ain't no money in it, it'll lead you to an early grave.

#4.
I guess if I'd admit it, Clayton taught me how to drink booze.
I can see him half-stoned, a-pickin' out the Lovesick Blues.
When Clayton died I made him a promise, I was gonna carry on 
somehow.
I'd give a hundred dollars if he could only see me now.

#5.
I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died.
Nobody ever knew it, but I went out in the woods and I cried.
Well, I know there's a lotta big preachers that know a lot more 
than I do.
But it could be that the Good Lord likes a little pickin', too.
Yeah, I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died.

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