{"id":18585,"date":"2014-07-16T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=18585"},"modified":"2020-05-20T20:56:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T20:56:27","slug":"highwaymen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=18585","title":{"rendered":"Highwaymen + Nitty Gritty Dirt Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Highwaymen <\/b>(active between 1985 and 1995)\u00a0were a\u00a0Country music\u00a0supergroup\u00a0comprising four of the genre’s biggest artists well known for their pioneering influence on the\u00a0outlaw country\u00a0subgenre:<\/p>\n

Johnny Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Waylon Jennings<\/a>,\u00a0Willie Nelson<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0Kris Kristofferson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Willie-Roll-Me-Up-and-Smoke-Me-When-I-Die1-book-by-Willie-Nelson\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2190<\/p>\n

\u00abI met Waylon Jennings<\/a> one night in Phoenix, Arizona, at an all-night restaurant next to the Holiday Inn where I was staying. We hit it off pretty good right from the start. We were both from Texas and were already called ‘outlaws.’ I don\u2019t know about Waylon, but I ate it up. It was good for my image. Waylon asked me if I thought he should go to Nashville. I asked him how much money he was making in Phoenix, and he said four hundred a week. I told him to stay where he was. I was getting like five hundred a night, but the commissions, hotel, fuel, food, and traveling took it all. I thought he had a better gig than I did. Fortunately, he didn\u2019t listen to me.<\/p>\n

We stayed great friends all the way. We disagreed on almost everything and argued like old married people. We were on different drugs. He liked speed, and I didn\u2019t like speed. I was going too fast already.<\/p>\n

The Highwaymen<\/a> tours were the most fun I ever had before or since. Kris and Waylon would argue about politics; and I would laugh a lot. Later on they would call me just to hear a good joke. I loved John and Waylon. They are dearly missed to this day. Kris and his wife, Lisa, came by this week on his way to somewhere. He looked great. We laughed a lot, burned one down and solved all the world\u2019s problems. I love you, Kris; you\u2019re the real deal!\u00bb<\/p>\n

Willie Nelson<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022\u2192 \u00a0\u00abHighwayman\u00bb<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u21d3 \u00a0[1985]<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n
I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride
\nWith sword and pistol by my side
\nMany a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
\nMany a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
\nThe bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
\nBut I am still alive.I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide
\nAnd with the sea I did abide.
\nI sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
\nI went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
\nAnd when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
\nBut I am living still.I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide
\nWhere steel and water did collide
\nA place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
\nI slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
\nThey buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
\nBut I am still around..I’ll always be around..and around and around and
\naround and aroundI fly a starship across the Universe divide
\nAnd when I reach the other side
\nI’ll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
\nPerhaps I may become a highwayman again
\nOr I may simply be a single drop of rain
\nBut I will remain
\nAnd I’ll be back again, and again and again and again and again..<\/div>\n