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My Favorite Waylon tunes are "Time to Bum Again" followed close by "Clyde".
We are gonna miss you Waylon, God Bless.

Boy, that's a tough question. I'd have to say that Waylon is one of the few artists by whom I've never heard a song I didn't like. I'm surely sorry to hear of his passing. This sounds corny, but out of all of his great work, I've always been kind of partial to "The Theme From the Dukes of Hazard."

Rainy Day Woman.
Seems like I'm the only guy that can play that tune like Ralph Mooney. Go figure.
Pat

"I'll Go Back to Her".......hands down the prettiest song and playing by Ralph Mooney.
"Play it Moon" as Waylon said.......
Ricky

Mine isn't a Waylon song but rather one by the Possum: Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes.
I like his reference to Waylon: The Outlaw who walks through Jessie's dreams. That one always caught me off guard with it's subtle regard for another Performer. Nice touch and what's more, he did while Waylon was still with us.

Regards, Paul

Like Merle Haggard, so many of Waylon's
great songs are buried as album cuts and not
neccesarily the "hits".
Personal favorites : From the 70's "outlaw" period, "Memories of You and I"
from the Ramblin Man album.
From the 60's pre-outlaw period , a haunting ballad called "The Road" off of the
Love of the Common People album . now on CD.

Sweet Mental Revenge.

There's a song on The Eagle album I've always loved called "Old Church Hymns and Nursury Rhymes". And now that I have a marvelous grandson, I love it even more!

"Singin' old church hymns and nursery rhymes,
from the days way back before my time,
with a little child upon my knee,
singin' every sweet word back to me,
look how far I've had to come,
to get back where I started from,
with a child's wisdom passing time,
Singin' old church hymns and nursery rhymes"

(written by Beth Nielsen Chapman)

Beautiful!!

I couldn't pick a favorite song (he was my favorite performer) but I was always *really* impressed by the words of "I Do Believe"...
Nick

First Waylon album I had was from the "Nashille Rebel" movie and the title cut "the Nashville Rebel" is my all time favorite tune of his complete with some really twangy guitar licks right in your face.

Greg

Although I probably haven't heard it in over 30 years, there's an old obscure Waylon song called "Green River" that I really liked. I cann't remember the words anymore, but the melody still sticks in my mind. I think it may have been one of the songs from a movie he did back in the 60s.



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It's from the Nashville Rebel soundtrack
George. Beautiful song . I almost picked it for my number one. By the way , that soundtrack album is quite a collector's item. I had a copy but along with alot of my other old Waylon albums it was ruined last year in the big flood we had down here in Houston

I like the Nashville Rebel album, as well. I haven't had it out for a while, but isn't side one Waylon and side two movie scores? It's been a while. I'm going to have to get it dug out and re-listen.
Bob Wills is still the king, but Waylon Jennings is part of the Royal family, too.

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Hey Ricky D,
"I'll Go Back to Her" is one great tune for sure. I've never heard anyone mention it before but don't you think the melody is almost the exact same as Wynn Stewart's "Donna on my Mind" except for the beat?

Hey Red,
I always liked the way Waylon did that old Gordon Lightfoot thing called "That's What You Get For Lovin' Me". He was one Hoss in whatever he did. I like that Merle Haggard thing he did, I think it was "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" where Mooney plays his break and Waylon say right on the record "Eat your heart out, Haggard".

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Livin' in the Past and the Future with a 12 string Mooney tuning.

I don't know the title but the song goes

"Take back the weed
Take back the cocaine baby
Take back the pills
Take back the whiskey too"

Classic Waylon..

Mental Revenge

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn

I like all the classic Waylon, but America is the one that always grabs my attention:

<font size=-1>written by Sammy Johns</font>

Some have said down through history
If you last it's a mystery
But I guess they don't know
what they're talking about

From the mountains down to the sea
You've become such a habit with me
America, America

Well I come from down around Tennessee
But the people in California
Are nice to me, America

It don't matter where I may roam
Tell you people that it's home sweet home
America, America

Chorus:

And my brothers are all black and white, yellow too
And the red man is right to expect a little from you
Promise, and then follow through, America

And the men who fell on the planes
And lived through hardship and pain
America, America

And the men who could not fight
In a war that didn't seem right
You let them come home, America

It's home sweet home, America, America




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<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Doug Beaumier on 15 February 2002 at 05:04 PM.]</p></FONT>

Doug, that is a great tune! I like "Lonesome , Onry and Mean" and also an obscure song from the "Ladies Love Outlaws" album entitled "Revelations", which makes my skin crawl!

"I Got You" duet with Anita Carter; "Anita, You're Dreaming"; "Days of Sand and Shovels"; "MacArthur Park"

A lot of my favorites are from the pre-outlaw era as well, Mental Revenge of course, Nashville Bum, Nashville Rebel, Green River, Pickin White Gold, Singer of Sad Songs, the list goes on and on. From the outlaw era, It'll Be Her,Mississippi Woman, Don't Let the Sun Set on You in Tulsa, The Buddy Holly Medly on the "Always Been Crazy" album, This Time, great stuff. It was such a shock for me to hear that he had passed on. He was of my earliest influences. He will be sadly, sadly missed. He was one of the greatest.

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The Young Steelkid

Gary....

Yes! I thought he did McArthur Park which is one of my all time favorite songs ever written. Do you know if it is on any CD?

I like:

Jolle Blon, Werlitzer Prize, Honky Tonk Heros, and all the rest of them.

We lost a great one this week....

"I Can't Keep My Hands Off Of You" and "Last Letter". Two beautiful ballads. Jody.

Somebody mentioned "Bob Wills is Still the King" Yup thats a good one. One that came to mind right away was "Sweet Dream Woman"

He had many, Green River had to be a great one, He sang it in the movie he made in his early years.

....if I said that I loved your body, would you hold it agains't me?.......