Our guest Mrbisok failed to get a discussion going back in 2000 about the song HAMMER AND NAILS by Dave Schramm, which is (in part, at least) about Townes Van Zandt.

Maybe he would have succeeded if more people had been familiar with the song. So let's take a step back and see if anyone can provide the lyrics or a link to a recording.

I haven't heard the whole song myself. Spotify doesn't have it. I don't think YouTube has it.

Allmusic.com describes the album "Hammer and Nails" but it doesn't have any samples.

There is a 1-minute+ sample on the web site of The Schramms.

Just to make things complicated, there are several other songs with the same title: Alexis Korner wrote and recorded one. Dick Glasser wrote one, and Dean Martin recorded it. Aaron Schroeder and David Hess wrote one, and The Staple Singers recorded it. And more.