Rough On The Livin' Waylon Jennings and the Old Dogs

Описание: "Rough on the Livin'" written by Shel Silverstein. Recorded by Waylon jennings and the Old Dogs (Waylon jennings, Jerry Reed, Bobby bare and Mel Tillis) on the 1998 album "old Dogs Vol. 2"...lyrics...

Here's a song about a friend of ours...

His picture was in all the papers,
they said that a legend had passed
The late evening news did a special report
and swore that his memory would last

They're playin' his records all weekend,
praising the life that he led
Nashville is rough on the living,
but she really speaks well of the dead

The wife that they interviewed cried,
is the same one who left him last fall
And the record producer who called him a hero
Is the one who wouldn't answer his calls

The ladies, they sit over coffee
Braggin' about sharing his bed
They didn't want him around when he's living
But he's sure a good friend when he's dead

They observe twenty seconds of silence
At the Opry on Saturday night
And they're searchin' the bars and the basements
For some souvenir of his life

They're planning the book for September
Showin' his plain country roots
And they're selling the rights to the movie
And the Hall of Fame's getting his boots

At the funeral someone recited a poem
That told how he suffered and bled
Nashville is rough on the living
But she really speaks well of the dead

Yeah Nashville is rough on the living
But she really speaks well of the dead