Billy Joe Shaver - Ragged Old Truck

alright back in the sixties way in the middle 66 or so laughs and I looked up to Nashville because I wrote some since I was 8 years old and I knew I was really good oh my god I actually thought I was the best there was ginger I was good enough for mail you know and close the last she didn't she didn't thinking at all a matter of fact behind every great man is a woman not just make more you know any house over just we rented a place outside of Nashville only about 30 miles out and we couldn't afford to rent Nashville is just too damn high and so was I turn the country counting his old country store right across from where we live and I walked over it's where they sell great pants and still like that you know had her Camaros in life I walked over and as his Goss tanner he's kind of thinking out loud I guess he's looking at his old truck when he won't crank up trucks and bust his thumb you don't watch it well it won't it belonged to the man there to store and he was thinking out loud he said you know I'd buy that their truck if that felt her fix it so I just kind of overheard him her he heard him thanking one I don't know what but the jerk will jump back on that little wheel and start begging and I said Jeremy I'm gonna be a busy man and I we didn't have much money as I'm gonna buy this here truck from him as from the goddess store and sell it to this fellow down the road it won't seem so bad so I've got I bought the truck with what little money we had and I'm out there underneath the trucks a tree working on it I don't busted my knuckles I'm pretty good mechanic I'm busting my balls I can't get the damn thing to rhyme and a wife comes out she said what's done so I'll face the bill sell this here truck this fellow down the road here she said does that mean you bought it of course when I told her that all hell broke loose and she matter no wet hand she jumped in to own the car that run and went back to Waco Texas I'm out there I never did like being married oh really I've done married her three times cause that made her the dumbass not me anyhow I decided you know marriage is a great institution but who wants a little in estrogen oh we got one guys who get in trouble tonight you're cut off all right here we go this here what happened was I decided after all that thinking that I hated being married I decided well I'm just going to end it all and I'm going to give you a tip don't ever play Russian roulette with an automatic that's not going through the story but Evaristo your good health I'll go up to the house sir I've got on the bed I laid on the bed with my hat scrunched on my head and my boots on everything he's supposed to do when you fix it with do stuff like this yeah I've got the gun right up to my head almost done but I realize you know I had on my favorite clothes which would be these not just pair but just like a minnow and I peel them right over the top of my head and I just wanted to build a bunch of holes in the wall to keep from having to do it again and I had to do some explaining about that later anyway I got done her to that truck and I squared off that so knowing I finally got your honor you know I was all wrong I limped into that field and this is during the hippie days you know it wasn't long haired guys going around I know what it says I'll go around saying I gotta change the line so you know I'm gonna come over I can do that so I took my hat I said hey y'all y'all gotta change heavy and I went along I've done feel my head up three or four times I had no idea those guys are making that much money anyway there's one guy come by these it's very like possibly that's I said hey what is it my choice of being happy he said well then something here might be happy okay I had a bunch of money you gotta come out with this little sheet of paper and head look like little stamps on it and this is Feller better walking my biz with the releases handy called natural man and I said well let's take a whole sheet alright now I paid him bunch of money for the whole shitty 17 I just watered it up putting a mouth watering over that I had a family he said you spoke Peggy no one as the world now you tell me but anyway it was about 45 minutes or an hour I would walk in sideways I'm telling you everything went juicy there's all kind of colors and lasses someone cooperating nothing was going right now so I went into this store somehow I managed to get crawling or something and about a six-pack of beer I figured well if I'm gonna die I'm gonna die with a beer man you got out there now sit down on the deck down sleeping and I started drinking that beer I've got about 3/4 into it and I want about the fifth beer I got a drunk they're not gonna handle that you see I've been there before so so I handled that and I got up I said well you know that wife's gone she'd gone to two-way : and I'm here you know how much have a good time so I started I started drinking all kinds of liquors and stuff like am I just different things and and sort of hitting these women hand me those squatty bodies long tall blonde brunette I mean I did everything but farm animals I'm telling you have a good job then air for several days I'm sure I said well we'll go back to the house and I'll live back to the house little throw I got there and I'm inert and I took a shower you know Cowboys when I got the together they put a head on a lid on it and anyway there I am I put my boots on in my hat I can't remember why I didn't putting on this on I just got my guitar started started saying this about what had happened to me and it was a good soon yeah oh my god just very song of heard and uh about that time dorm Rob moved and a wife comes in she said what in the hell you done now and I didn't know how long she been wrong I don't know how long I've been gone I said honey I just wrote the greatest song ever written I'm telling we gonna buy Nashville she said I gots to hear that I got here and I don't know what she had in her purse but she had was had a handle or something cuz she hit her that damn person I went down hard and co-stars I heard the car cranking up and she left because she had only heard about third she doesn't go and here's a song I'm thinking about cracking the ragged old truck up calling myself in the town early this morning without any warning took me a look at myself good guy I seen how that married up life I've been living it was a trying to choke me to death I'll a home they will my gun to my head I'm Mary about him welcome to myself just before I got killed 10 I blow me some holes in the wall in trouble Penhall myself into town I am where I am today on a much a hill till I die for a little more a lane round this place to a blue little face and my myth will be harm the ground I am bragging right ahead old truck and haul it Marcil you you irresistible a honky Tonk Man and a hog head top with pocket tom girl and maybe as early as no more real fast but I'm loaded with hillbilly Shawn that's right yes my life and know why am I want to tell me I can go and have me some fun so the forever gossip I am from label you can bet your sweet ass up myself I my longer much a hill hill Oh palatial a blue haze we'll be on the ground I can but try and Holly mother and house myself into town that's around the way

Channel: Dan Schram

Views: 237,227

Rating: 4.855824 out of 5

Keywords: I'm Just And Old Chunk Of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be A Diamond Someday)

Id: fL6S-prsqnk

Length: 12min 15sec (735 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 19 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/FuckedAsBored]

Love him. Was just reminiscing yesterday about him - annv. of Eddie's death.

I'll leave this here

[u/mongostudmuffin]

Aliving saint of all things honky-tonk!