LONG TIME AGO 
(Shel Silverstein / Waylon Jennings)

Waylon Jennings -1978

 

I don't look the way the average cowboy singer looks
I'll admit I've taken things I never shoulda took
You can read a different story in a lot of different books
But even then you won't really know
How it was a long time ago

Women have been my trouble since I found out they weren't men
In spite of that I stopped and took a wife now and then
They built their fences high, but they couldn't hold me in
I was born with a fire down below
And I learned to fly a long time ago, yeah

(Instrumental Break)

Don't ask me about the years I spent out in the rain
About the ones I spent in love or the ones I spent insane
Don't ask me who I gave my seat to on that plane
I think you already know
I told you that a long time ago

Me and ol' Willie, Lordy, we've been sold and bought
I guess you all heard about some kind of system that we fought
We ain't the only outlaws, just the only ones they caught
They tried to run us off, but Willie's slow
I quit runnin' a long time ago, yeah



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2011)