[00:00.00]Me and Willie (2003 Remaster) - Emmylou Harris
[00:05.84]Me and Willie played in a country band
[00:13.92]Seven long years together
[00:16.97]Playing those one night stands
[00:21.81]Used to say the booze and bars
[00:25.69]Is going to wear him out
[00:29.81]Hold on a song he wrote
[00:33.59]Tear your heart right out
[00:38.91]We traveled the northern route
[00:40.77]And from the Greate Lakes to Monreal
[00:46.82]Hitting all the honkytonks
[00:50.69]I bet we played them all
[00:55.20]Willie played to ease his soul and
[00:59.12]Drank to ease his mind
[01:02.85]I never understood how he played it so good while
[01:07.33]Drinking himself half blind
[01:10.81]And you
[01:11.84]Wouldn't think a man so weak
[01:15.87]Could be so strong
[01:20.08]Take a crowd of rowdy drunks and
[01:24.14]Hush them with a song
[01:26.36]And I'd rather be singing my heart out
[01:33.15]In a dark and dingy bar
[01:37.34]Hitting those high notes with
[01:40.66]Willie's sad guitar
[01:42.93]And I'd rather be singing a blues song
[01:50.10]Singing sweet and high
[01:55.33]Willie standing right by my side
[01:59.37]Playing country slide
[02:06.56]Me and Willie watched a lot of dreams die young
[02:14.05]Plans we made how quick they fade
[02:17.80]Fumbling one by one
[02:22.96]Willie never let it bother him and if he did
[02:26.98]It didn't show
[02:30.18]You know he had a way of letting go
[02:34.60]Am the blue times old
[02:37.89]And you wouldn't think a man so weak
[02:43.73]Could be so strong
[02:47.29]Take the blues right out of you
[02:51.32]And put them in a song
[02:53.77]I'd rather be singing my heart out
[03:00.55]In a dark and dingy bar
[03:04.59]Hitting those high notes with
[03:07.94]Willie's sad guitar
[03:10.19]And I'd rather be singing a blues song
[03:17.37]Singing sweet and high
[03:22.62]Willie standing right by my side
[03:26.77]Playing country slide
[03:56.53]I left Willie in a bar in Marietta
[04:03.84]Couldn't stand to watch the man
[04:06.18]I love drink himself to death
[04:11.27]Now I'm working in Ottawa
[04:15.21]And I'm doing well I guess
[04:19.61]You know the good life don't look so good
[04:24.56]From behind a desk
[04:26.84]And I'd rather be singing my heart out
[04:33.43]In a dark and dingy bar
[04:37.64]Hitting those high notes with
[04:40.88]Willie's sad guitar
[04:43.47]And I'd rather be singing a blues song
[04:50.55]Singing sweet and high
[04:55.60]Willie standing right by my side
[04:59.79]Playing country slide