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Lyr Req: The Year That Clayton Delaney Died (Hall)

13 Apr 97 - 12:00 AM (#4544)
Subject: Lyrics Clayton Delaney
From: Nuttby Oakville

Looking for the word's and/or guitar cord's.

13 Apr 97 - 12:25 AM (#4545)
Subject: RE: Lyrics Clayton Delaney
From: belter

I think you might mean 'The Day That Clayton Delaney Died' if so I doen't have the words, but this might jog someone's memory.

13 Apr 97 - 12:31 AM (#4547)
Subject: Lyr Add: THE YEAR THAT CLAYTON DELANEY DIED
From: Gene Graham

VISIT TOM T. HALL's LINK at: http://www.cnct.com/~tomthall

THE YEAR THAT CLAYTON DELANEY DIED

I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died
They said for the last two weeks that he suffered and cried
It made a big impression on me, although I was a barefoot kid
They said he got religion at the end and I'm glad that he did.

Clayton was the best guitar picker in our town
I thought he was a hero and I used to follow Clayton around
I often wondered why Clayton, who seemed so good to me
Never took his guitar and made it down in Tenn-o-see.

Well, Daddy said he drank a lot, but I could never understand
I knew he used to pick up in Ohio with a five-piece band
Clayton used to tell me, "Son you better put that old guitar away
There ain't no money in it, it'll lead you to an early grave."

I guess if I'd admit it, Clayton taught me how to drink booze
I can see him half-stoned a-pickin' out the lovesick blues
When Clayton died I made him a promise, I was gonna carry on somehow
I'd give a hundred dollars if he could only see me now.

I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died
Nobody ever knew it but I went out in the woods and I cried
Well, I know there's a lotta big preachers that know a lot more than I do
But it could be that the good Lord likes a little pickin' too.

Yeah, I remember the year that Clayton Delaney died

Go to: http://www.roughstock.com/cowpie for the chords.

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