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Thread #119734 Message #2599130
Posted By: Midchuck
28-Mar-09 - 07:16 AM
Thread Name: when country was country & western was western
Subject: Lyr Add: THE DEATH OF JIMMY MARTIN (Tom Russell)
Tom Russell, as usual, says it best, in "The Death of Jimmy Martin:"
THE DEATH OF JIMMY MARTIN (Tom Russell)
There's a hound dog running all alone through the piney woods The howlin' tears the soul out of me There's a jay bird calling up a funeral dirge In ragtime harmony. Barb'ry Allen rolled over in her grave all morning There were roses growing out of her head Hey, God's gonna burn down Nashville tonight Jimmy Martin's dead Ah, the great Jimmy Martin's gone dead
You got twenty twenty vision but you're walkin' 'round blind You Grand Ole Opry fools With your hypocritic judgments and your self righteous snobbery And your God Damned false hearted rules. You scorned Hank Williams and you shunned Jimmy Martin, Boys who sang with tongues of fire. Hey god's gonna burn down your Grand Ole Opry Hear the screaming of the hypocrites and liars They feel safer now that Jimmy has expired.
Run, Pete, run, your master's callin' you, He's waiting on up ahead Hey, don't look back, 'cause Nashville's burnin' down Pete, Jimmy Martin's gone dead The great Jimmy Martin's gone dead.
Well, don't call me no country singer Those are poison words to me 'Cause I ain't heard a good country song Since 1973. The King of Bluegrass has died for your sins, The Whore of Babylon is sleepin' in your bed. And God's gonna burn down Nashville tonight, boys, Jimmy Martin's dead The great Jimmy Martin's gone dead.
Run, Pete, run, your master's callin' you, He's waiting on up ahead Don't look back, Nashville's burnin' down Jimmy Martin's gone dead The great Jimmy Martin's gone dead.
There's a hound dog runnin' all alone through the piney woods The howling tears the soul out of me...