Johnny and Waylon are riding among the clouds, and Willie and Merle and Kris are still waiting for that train to come. Yippie Yah Yayyyyy, Yippie Yah Ohhhh, Johnny in the sky! *sob*
This is a true song from the heart its a shame waylon and johnny aint still around but there music will live on forever they are legendairy! May they rest in piece.
saw them perform in mountain view, california during the mid 70's .... All I can remember feeling was ... WOW! Nelson, Cah, Jennings & Kistoferson .... Wow, again! I kep saying to myself - few will ever see this assembly of talent ever again. I was right. The Highwaymen - nobody has ever done it better. ;)
not gonna lie, i hate county. i listen to every other music genre except country, but this song? it hits me in that one spot that alot of people wouldnt understand lol. love this song :)
I know. I'm not a fan of almost any of the music played these days. Mearle haggard, willie nelson, weylon jennings, jerry reed, kenny chesney, john anderson, brad paisly, johnny cash.. The list for me can go on, I used to listen to random stuff but as i branched out to more genres of music and into country, i fell in love with Country more than anything, more so with the oldies than the new stuff.
i grew up on a multicultural block in the early 70's all my freinds laughed at me and my country and western music i'm now 40'sh and all the ones who laughed then long for the heartfelt music i've never let go of songs with meaning not just noise!
@Nareps03 it would be great if all of the modern singers of today were killed in some huge bomb during one of those joke award shows, that they have every year....how hilarious that would be the worlds crap music will be gone....
people can call me whatever they like but I am so desperate and I am still waiting for that thrain and I don't know when it's coming and or where it's going or when it's arriving and or if it has departed yet but this song, man oh man, it still brings tears to my eyes. 4 genuine country blokes telling it and singing it like it really was and is.
my grandfather was this older guy I miss You geroge.!!!!!!!!.. Grandpa you passed and i wished you met your grandsonhe would love you like I still and always will
this will always remind me of my dad, the ONLY reason i know who these guys are. otherwise i would never have heard of country or western or whatever you call it. not dead but gone.
@OriginalStarchaser go check out ryan bingham. that man sings straight from the heart, he has seen more in his young life than some of the newly inducted "older " country stars: garth brooks, brooks & dunn, etc... someone said he is the next kris kristofferson, that can actually sing (i really like kris, i just think the joke is funny) ryan bingham is a definite diamond in the rough (rough being pop country)
That's the way it goes. Young folks taking over, trying to make a new sound, but I have noticed that the young 'ape' a bit too much, rather than singing from a new part of the heart, yet found, a lost part, tossed aside at birth by God, no Man or Woman sure where it landed, seeking it, like a lost essential, the Heart, a thing more than a simple whine in a tune.....
i remember when i was a kid, my dad would play this song while drivingout to my grandparents about 50 miles away ironicly there would be a traintrack we pass on the highway half the time i was stuck watching the train pass listening to the song. I wish i knew then what that song met, recently an older neighbor passed on and im 25 and he was 50 and theres so much to learn from older generations so many values. we no longer have this a culture, sad how others honor and we forget our elders
@kevochaos1 You are a very wonderful person , to care so much !!! And you are so right , we all need to honour our elders ,, as one day we will become them , to our young !! Thank-you for being & caring & bringing it to the fore for all of us !!!
This song somewhat parallels my relationship with my Dad. He died recently and I miss him so. When I hear these lyrics they take me through our life together from when I could barely walk and he'd take me with him to when I was grown and he was nearly gone. I can't even type this without tears. I love my Dad and I love this song because it reminds me of him.
It is just incredible-brilliant -captures that segment , persons and life- just love those 4 together-they are what if you could turn back time for be worth doing it!
im 14, and i dont really like bringin up this name but... Justin Bieber needs to lay down on train tracks and wait for a fucking train to hit him! LIVE ON HIGHWAYMEN!!!
@Mongo1940 Not Townes, but Guy Clarke! This was written about his mom's friend who Guy was around alot. Treated him like a son I suppose. Anyway, when a reporter asked Clarke if this song was really a true story, he replied very bluntly--"Son, you can't make this shit up"! Great reply, don't you think?? Townes wrote some really great tunes, but just not this one..
@coleyman1 I suppose I should have looked it up. I remember Guy Clarke as a singer, not so much a composer. I think I'll look it up now. Just the same, this is a great and unique song. I really miss the talent of days gone bye.
In 1978 I was 33 years of age. my friend was 61, and well thought of . He died at the hands of the local police in my home town. this song really brings him to mind. now I am 64 and I still miss my old friend. Justice was never served for what happened to him. Most of the officers and officials involved in his death have passed on. i am sure that justice is being served now. I am now 64 years of age, still miss my friend. Johnny, Waylon, and my friend, keep that light burning for me.
@headredbone I lived this when I was 15 "Batching" on a farm just out of Finger Tn.
There was my drunken father (2 Bronze Stars in WWII) Mr, Grace who never spoke his first name until he had a couple of beers in him at which point he advised everybody in the bar that he was in fact "Amazing, By God, Grace!
And Hubert Gilmore, Bunker Hill, Don't give a damn and never will!"
@amclaws25 you said it brother,,,, this new pop shit they call country has no heart and no soul... just some pretty boy or some hot girl lip sync.... what have we, have a country become...? homogenized fucks???
@EvanLovesYourSister people who like what they call country today are pieces of shit who deserve to be killed they are the ones responsible for the dumbing down of america. most americans are just ignorant pieces of shit who have no idea about anything that matters....
@amclaws25 yeah....I actually grew up hating country, but all I ever heard was the pop country stuff and I hated it...later on I found these guys and others like them and its GREAT music....just wonderful.
The old driller was my grandfather and the Green Frog Cafe was actually called the Goliad Saloon. Otherwise the song is accurate for me and my memories.
One of my best friends was in a group with Guy Clark (the writter of this tune) Susan and my friend have stayed close over the years since Bellaire High School. As a result I have been around Guy a lot. I heard this song before it was ever recorded. The line that goes "Taught me how to drive hi car..." originally went "Taught me how to drive his truck when he's to drunk to give a f--k." which I always liked better, Damn censors.
Young or old we all share the dream of life and liberty. Of a time long past yet still new in our hearts. A feeling of pride and fear. Yearning for the past and still grasping onto what is new. We are as they say timeless in the minds and souls of those that know us. We are Americans one and all. Hold tight to your dreams. Hold on tight to one another for that is what makes us great. I am 53 but forever young in my heart and soul. God bless you all. My brothers and sisters of the heart.
this is the real music, no (c)rap or rock can ever compare to this! this is the real deal this music will be around for ever not just a classic but the best of the best!! Country for life country for ever!
Hey hey hey!! Old timers??? Ok so maybe you're young. But these guys..the Highwaymen are just wonderful. They are the rebels and sing about standing up for your country. RIP Wayon and Johnny I miss you and God Bless you and THIS COUNTRY!!
I have been working in the oilfields for 33 years, I was a driller for 15 years of it and could not count how many wells I have drilled in my career, I have no kids, but I have had a kid that I met when he was 8, he now is 23 and goes to the bar with me when I come home from the rig in Wy where I work now. I love this song, I'm following the path. The american oilfield is a dying breed!!!!!!!!!!
This is the first version of the song I heard (and I'd swear it had an actual video too), but I think David Allan Coe's version may be the definitive one.
There has never been, nor (in my opinion) will there ever be a collection of talent and emotion like these four men. While many celebrate Willie and Johnny, Kris and Waylon are every bit as much a part of a past we will never be able to recapture...a better time and a better kind of music.
American Heroes! Wouldn't they be ashamed to see us now?
One day I looked up and he's pushin 80 and There's brown tobacco stains all down his chin To me he's one of the heroes of this country, so why is he dressed up like them old men?
i am twelve and i love johnny cash willie nelson and waylon jennings and kris kristerferson LUV EM ALL and rest in peace waylon and johnny we all miss yall!
If this doesn't emotionally affect you, where the hell are you? I wish they'd make this kind of music again. I'm too young to feel this way and it sucks...
Sure, "other music" is okay when you're trying to fit in but this has substance. Just sayin'.
Guy Clark sang this song originally, this song was about him and his grandmothers boyfriend at the time, Guy looked up to him as if he was his grandfather. Jerry jeff walker is another badass :} (Grifiki) if you like these guys you should check him out
I am an ex Englishman... Do you know Max Bygraves??? I know real American Country. Not pretenders. Who sang the Song. Jodi and the Kid? Dont tell me about American Country. I remember the best, You still think of the rest..
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i'd say it's around 7 or 8 years old? there's 3 of them, but i guess you wouldn't have seen it, its about vampires. But at any rate, kris kirsopherson is more famous for the movies he was in than his music, i can't even think of what other music he's done. Both his music and movies were more around in the 70's and maybe the 60's.
The blade movies are mostly with Wesley Snipes, but Kristopherson is in the 1st and 3rd one. The only other movie i can think of that he played a major roll in right now is "Convoy" about Truck Drivers. But i'm sure he's been in dozens of movies, mostly in the 70's and 80's, i think alot of western-type.
you can find one of his movies here on youtube it has kris in it and johnny cash and even david allan coe. type in the last days of frank and jesse james. its a good one
Who the hell is jerry jeff? These are four of the greatest. Only two still live. Does anyone remmeber Real Country? Hank Williams. Hank Snow. My Favorite??? Who was he? I forget..
LA Freeway, Mr. Bojangles, Up Against the Wall (Redneck Mother), Hairy Ass Hillbilies, Pissin in the WInd? any Ring a bell?
Jesus what has the world come to. He is right there with thease guys, but he never sold out to a big label so he never got his true fame. Listen to LA Freeway. He wrote Mr. Bojangles.
I think you have "real country" confused with "Texas outlaw or free country". "Real country music" is hardly being written or recorded today. Just a few "new" artist are even brave enough to do "real country". I've been doing studio work and playing a lot of demo gigs for the past 20 years down here, and only about 1 in 50 songs qualifies as "real country". I am 63 years old, and I remember "real country" and it's not L.A. Freeway, Mr. Bojangles, or any of those other songs you mentioned!
Let's be fair about this. Jerry Jeff is not a "country music" icon like these guys, but Jerry Jeff, Guy Clark ,Townes, Ray Wylie, and a host of others have their own great following. Not Nashville country, but Texas country. Independent of almost everything the "country establishment" has to offer. Most made there living having Nashville folks do their songs, but that's because the songs were so damned good that Nashville recording artist just couldn't pass them up. "Real Country is long gone!
Dont forget Jerry Chesnut in this group, in my opinion he is one of the best to ever come down the pike and I'm proud to say he's a friend to all. youre right about real Country being almost gone there are darn few real country artist's left...
This song reminds me of some old guy I used to hang out with when I was really young. He taught me alot. Now it reminds me of the young guys I talk to all the time. I am an Electrician and never worked on an oil rig. I am an old school man of the world though.
It's "has every well I drilled run dry" but in parts of the South "every" is sometimes pronounced "ever". It actually adds a note of authenticity to the song, which is beautiful portrait of the sort of old guys I grew up around.
This song is so powerful! It's almost hard to listen too. I hear it, think of and feel Shasta city and Lake Siskiyou. I miss those places so much. These Highwaymen songs and those locations will always be associated together within my mind and my heart.
im an arab nomad i relate to country music like breathing air
TheYazzola 2 days ago
i am mexican b alik country n d its my favorite
lui6244 6 days ago
Simply one of the best songs ever written.Great version-check out David Allen Coe's version also.
tippimail1 6 days ago
Johnny and Waylon are riding among the clouds, and Willie and Merle and Kris are still waiting for that train to come. Yippie Yah Yayyyyy, Yippie Yah Ohhhh, Johnny in the sky! *sob*
guardsmanom134 1 month ago
this song reminds me of my grand father
11chiefsgirl 3 months ago
Really good song...
124Brainiac 3 months ago
Thay kill dac song like this one
MrMotelone 3 months ago
This makes me think of my dear friend Rawhide, rimbey ab, may he laugh forever
monsterchildofdeath 3 months ago
This is a true song from the heart its a shame waylon and johnny aint still around but there music will live on forever they are legendairy! May they rest in piece.
commanderinchief23 3 months ago 2
Love it john die on my bday
MrMotelone 4 months ago
John Wayne Bitch!!!!!!!!!!
leadslinger85 4 months ago
I'm annoyed there was an advert for "Pixie Lott" before the video.
DemonOfGaming 4 months ago 6
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Woot.. I didn't know that.. Youtube abusing my vid..
tlohmoD 4 months ago
saw them perform in mountain view, california during the mid 70's .... All I can remember feeling was ... WOW! Nelson, Cah, Jennings & Kistoferson .... Wow, again! I kep saying to myself - few will ever see this assembly of talent ever again. I was right. The Highwaymen - nobody has ever done it better. ;)
etsitdown 5 months ago
Masterpiece, we added this to facebook, and our playlist here...
PoetryETrain 5 months ago
WE HAD A HELLUVA BUNCH IN EAST OCEAN VIEW, VA
GDS4VR 5 months ago
I really want to kick 8 people's asses right now!!
jasonNstacey 5 months ago
on ther own,they wer and are the best of the best,but the 4 of them together is and always will be country legends
raiford70 6 months ago
This song always reminds me of my late brother who was killed in a cycle accident in Morristown Arizona. RIP Randy
jonchrysostom 6 months ago
Love you xxxxx
MissMariula 6 months ago
can't believe i never heard this song.... it's beautiful
manivac 6 months ago
as long as we keep listening to these old song waylon and johnny cash will never be forgotten.
gtofan2005 6 months ago 2
This song reminds me so much of my Grandaddy. I miss him so much.
TrishaDishaWarEagle 7 months ago
Honestly who dislikes any of these four country legends? who has the balls to spit in a legend's face? let alone four legends
Trixforkidz 7 months ago
You guys will live forever in these great songs. Absolutely timeless.
oskorei123 7 months ago 3
Great song that tells a great story.
dstraightone 8 months ago
8 peolple missed the train
trojen09lad 8 months ago 10
@trojen09lad And one got ran over by it!
guardsmanom134 1 month ago
not gonna lie, i hate county. i listen to every other music genre except country, but this song? it hits me in that one spot that alot of people wouldnt understand lol. love this song :)
JoshMilhem 8 months ago 2
@JoshMilhem well at least you have some sense in liking this song
fish1648 3 weeks ago
my grandmother used to always put this on when we would wait at the bus stop.all the way until the end of the year.and i will never 4get it.
wamaisex 8 months ago
I know. I'm not a fan of almost any of the music played these days. Mearle haggard, willie nelson, weylon jennings, jerry reed, kenny chesney, john anderson, brad paisly, johnny cash.. The list for me can go on, I used to listen to random stuff but as i branched out to more genres of music and into country, i fell in love with Country more than anything, more so with the oldies than the new stuff.
dsb345 8 months ago
Brilliant as always; great each one on their own and incredible together truly they were THE HIGHWAYMEN ! R.I.P Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.
TheIceDragonlady 9 months ago
i grew up on a multicultural block in the early 70's all my freinds laughed at me and my country and western music i'm now 40'sh and all the ones who laughed then long for the heartfelt music i've never let go of songs with meaning not just noise!
thanx fer sharing
stringman67 1 year ago
Doing a report on music in my life these were the first songs i ever listened to great to hear them all again RIP JOHNNY AND WAYLON YOU'RE MISSED!
BLUESLASH13 1 year ago 3
An old school man of the word! How great it is that these men with all their baggage acknowledge "The Word". Jesus forgives all! Merry Christmas!
mbrutus2009 1 year ago
@Nareps03 it would be great if all of the modern singers of today were killed in some huge bomb during one of those joke award shows, that they have every year....how hilarious that would be the worlds crap music will be gone....
ilovealexjones1 1 year ago
This is everything music stands for. Absolutely fantastic song. Suppose thats what you get when you have 4 legends singing in the same song.
glenn26374 1 year ago
people can call me whatever they like but I am so desperate and I am still waiting for that thrain and I don't know when it's coming and or where it's going or when it's arriving and or if it has departed yet but this song, man oh man, it still brings tears to my eyes. 4 genuine country blokes telling it and singing it like it really was and is.
steventaylortteca 1 year ago
this song is everlasting. it has something everybody can relate to. :)
kingston0708 1 year ago
Thanks for all your songs. People will remember you.
DRAGULIO1978 1 year ago
I just listened to this on one of my great great uncles records same cover as this
Brandonthehedgehog50 1 year ago
my grandfather was this older guy I miss You geroge.!!!!!!!!.. Grandpa you passed and i wished you met your grandsonhe would love you like I still and always will
IHATEPRINCETON 1 year ago
this will always remind me of my dad, the ONLY reason i know who these guys are. otherwise i would never have heard of country or western or whatever you call it. not dead but gone.
youngandpoor 1 year ago
@OriginalStarchaser go check out ryan bingham. that man sings straight from the heart, he has seen more in his young life than some of the newly inducted "older " country stars: garth brooks, brooks & dunn, etc... someone said he is the next kris kristofferson, that can actually sing (i really like kris, i just think the joke is funny) ryan bingham is a definite diamond in the rough (rough being pop country)
nugletman 1 year ago
Where you are now I have been, where I am now soon you will be.
MrMickdoh 1 year ago
Personal Fave of mine!!
Canberraboy100 1 year ago
That's the way it goes. Young folks taking over, trying to make a new sound, but I have noticed that the young 'ape' a bit too much, rather than singing from a new part of the heart, yet found, a lost part, tossed aside at birth by God, no Man or Woman sure where it landed, seeking it, like a lost essential, the Heart, a thing more than a simple whine in a tune.....
OriginalStarchaser 1 year ago
The Highwaymen= best voices of country
Traveling Wilburys= best voices of rock
thumbs up if you agree
1kissbee 1 year ago 12
@1kissbee true about the voices i love the song waiting for a train
vote4bobdull 1 year ago
just love this makes me feel good
MySassyfrass 1 year ago
The song is about Guy Clarks's Grandmother's long-time boyfriend. who was for all intents and purposes, his grandfather.
zenwhips 1 year ago 2
i remember when i was a kid, my dad would play this song while drivingout to my grandparents about 50 miles away ironicly there would be a traintrack we pass on the highway half the time i was stuck watching the train pass listening to the song. I wish i knew then what that song met, recently an older neighbor passed on and im 25 and he was 50 and theres so much to learn from older generations so many values. we no longer have this a culture, sad how others honor and we forget our elders
kevochaos1 1 year ago
@kevochaos1 You are a very wonderful person , to care so much !!! And you are so right , we all need to honour our elders ,, as one day we will become them , to our young !! Thank-you for being & caring & bringing it to the fore for all of us !!!
yukonnahanni 1 year ago
This song somewhat parallels my relationship with my Dad. He died recently and I miss him so. When I hear these lyrics they take me through our life together from when I could barely walk and he'd take me with him to when I was grown and he was nearly gone. I can't even type this without tears. I love my Dad and I love this song because it reminds me of him.
pinapp1 1 year ago 3
It is just incredible-brilliant -captures that segment , persons and life- just love those 4 together-they are what if you could turn back time for be worth doing it!
zephyrseas 1 year ago
this is the only song in the entire world that can bring me to tears
webbysmygirl 1 year ago
im 14, and i dont really like bringin up this name but... Justin Bieber needs to lay down on train tracks and wait for a fucking train to hit him! LIVE ON HIGHWAYMEN!!!
winkledorf17 1 year ago
Not to mention greatest songwriters if all time althought I think Townes VanZandt wrote this one. He wrote Pancho and Leftey too.
Mongo1940 1 year ago
@Mongo1940 Not Townes, but Guy Clarke! This was written about his mom's friend who Guy was around alot. Treated him like a son I suppose. Anyway, when a reporter asked Clarke if this song was really a true story, he replied very bluntly--"Son, you can't make this shit up"! Great reply, don't you think?? Townes wrote some really great tunes, but just not this one..
coleyman1 1 year ago
@coleyman1 I suppose I should have looked it up. I remember Guy Clarke as a singer, not so much a composer. I think I'll look it up now. Just the same, this is a great and unique song. I really miss the talent of days gone bye.
Mongo1940 1 year ago
In 1978 I was 33 years of age. my friend was 61, and well thought of . He died at the hands of the local police in my home town. this song really brings him to mind. now I am 64 and I still miss my old friend. Justice was never served for what happened to him. Most of the officers and officials involved in his death have passed on. i am sure that justice is being served now. I am now 64 years of age, still miss my friend. Johnny, Waylon, and my friend, keep that light burning for me.
headredbone 1 year ago
@headredbone Very sad....The world is so full of injustice, but real justice approaches. This song has special meaning for you though.
derryhawk 1 year ago
@derryhawk thanks for your concern.
headredbone 1 year ago
@headredbone I lived this when I was 15 "Batching" on a farm just out of Finger Tn.
There was my drunken father (2 Bronze Stars in WWII) Mr, Grace who never spoke his first name until he had a couple of beers in him at which point he advised everybody in the bar that he was in fact "Amazing, By God, Grace!
And Hubert Gilmore, Bunker Hill, Don't give a damn and never will!"
And my uncle Clayton.
The only father figure I ever knew.
(I named my son after him).
virago1776 1 year ago
@virago1776 We roamed the southeast in a 57 Chevy picking cotton and causing general mayhem when the circumstances called for it.
They were tough old geezers but you could call them anything you liked and they would laugh it off.
But if you put your hands on them, well, you just crossed a line better left uncrossed.
There were bar fights, some jail time, but mostly freedom to live life at it's fullest.
I miss them all.
They taught me a lot.
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headredbone 1 year ago
Another song almost forgotten... I love these highway men true cowboys!!
kayed15 1 year ago
I hope they meet my Dad in Heaven for a shot of Tequila with Boubon backup.... It's what a man's heaven is.
bandogoon 1 year ago
i agree there .....rest in piece cowboy's..
mackablair 1 year ago
I think this might be as good if not better then jerry jeffs.
derin604 1 year ago
@derin604
oh but JJW's version is pretty spesh ..x
See Brod313's - JJW on the Texas Connection
kara1464 1 year ago
@derin604 Guy Clark probably does this better than anyone I've heard.. Seems to just roll out of brain because he lived it---which he did!!
coleyman1 1 year ago
@coleyman1 I agree.
Wonderful history he has.
I'm checking him out on YouTube now.
I'm glad you mentioned him.
virago1776 1 year ago
badass song
RIP Waylon
RIP Johnny
you will both be missed
DustOnYourFace94 1 year ago
Oh Lord... It is funny I se this BP thing in the next window....
Lord almighty knows these guys used Oil.
But i still have to laugh.
We the F is BP advertising on here?
JohnCronin103 1 year ago
Forget Lady Antebellum, forget Rascal Flatts. The Highwaymen are the greatest country music group of all time! R.I.P. Waylon and Johnny.
SonicDude87 1 year ago 3
I love this song :))
And its true that new country may not be as good as this amazing stuff but as the years go by music has to change in order to stay with the times:(
at the time that this was written.. this type of music was popular..... but now whats popular is pop and music you can dance too ( which i like too)
i was raised on this kind of stuff and im only 14:) so this kind of music still lives on in all of us... and that is what matters:)))
09Awesomness 1 year ago 4
country sucks these days, compared to the oldies
amclaws25 1 year ago 58
@amclaws25 Mate, the same thing can be said for any genre. Country has suffered a lot, but so have most.
Sparrow476 1 year ago
@amclaws25 you said it brother,,,, this new pop shit they call country has no heart and no soul... just some pretty boy or some hot girl lip sync.... what have we, have a country become...? homogenized fucks???
EvanLovesYourSister 1 year ago 2
@EvanLovesYourSister people who like what they call country today are pieces of shit who deserve to be killed they are the ones responsible for the dumbing down of america. most americans are just ignorant pieces of shit who have no idea about anything that matters....
ilovealexjones1 1 year ago
@amclaws25 yeah....I actually grew up hating country, but all I ever heard was the pop country stuff and I hated it...later on I found these guys and others like them and its GREAT music....just wonderful.
White05Turbo 1 year ago 2
@amclaws25 AMEN!
InvisibleSkyDaddy 9 months ago
@amclaws25
jodlehai1 8 months ago
@amclaws25 your right man
darklordboggeris 7 months ago
@amclaws25 Thats a stupid statement. .it two seperate worlds. so comment like that on this page?
judge6754 4 months ago in playlist Willie Nelson
What a beautiful song. Thank you for uploading... it is just a pleasure!
These men, Legends!
97531go 1 year ago 2
I was brought up on these guys, and many other greats. I thank my parents for the amazing music they raised me on XD.
-Avalon
Avalongaurdian 1 year ago 2
i wish country was still like this
devmdx 1 year ago 3
The old driller was my grandfather and the Green Frog Cafe was actually called the Goliad Saloon. Otherwise the song is accurate for me and my memories.
SirBearJones 1 year ago 3
The old man was my grandfather and the Green Frog Cafe was called The Goliad Saloon. Some wonderful memories.
SirBearJones 1 year ago
what a awsome song you can just imagine the scene as they tell the story.
gtofan2005 1 year ago
fucking awesome!
giantsalltheway123 1 year ago
@tobaccorogue Hard to believe that half of real country music is gone
churley77 1 year ago 2
Typo I can spell "writer" I just can't type.
john9944 1 year ago
One of my best friends was in a group with Guy Clark (the writter of this tune) Susan and my friend have stayed close over the years since Bellaire High School. As a result I have been around Guy a lot. I heard this song before it was ever recorded. The line that goes "Taught me how to drive hi car..." originally went "Taught me how to drive his truck when he's to drunk to give a f--k." which I always liked better, Damn censors.
john9944 1 year ago
real country :) !!
Czechmagnum 1 year ago 3
i agree brian k, have you heard the band dry county?
jackedUPpickUP1 1 year ago
RIP johnny and waylon
matesoco13 1 year ago 87
@matesoco13
GREAT MEN AND MUSIC MAY THEY PLAY IN THE CLOUDS FOR ETERNITY
MJRDBAGJINX 4 months ago 2
This is REAL country, not that new stuff they call "country".
briank06261973 1 year ago 4
@briank06261973 WORD!
verdemanthe1 1 year ago
Young or old we all share the dream of life and liberty. Of a time long past yet still new in our hearts. A feeling of pride and fear. Yearning for the past and still grasping onto what is new. We are as they say timeless in the minds and souls of those that know us. We are Americans one and all. Hold tight to your dreams. Hold on tight to one another for that is what makes us great. I am 53 but forever young in my heart and soul. God bless you all. My brothers and sisters of the heart.
redboneshadow 1 year ago
this is the real music, no (c)rap or rock can ever compare to this! this is the real deal this music will be around for ever not just a classic but the best of the best!! Country for life country for ever!
deerhunter5551 1 year ago
Hey hey hey!! Old timers??? Ok so maybe you're young. But these guys..the Highwaymen are just wonderful. They are the rebels and sing about standing up for your country. RIP Wayon and Johnny I miss you and God Bless you and THIS COUNTRY!!
iappreciategoodmusic 1 year ago
daiszy38 I am 58 and this music is what I grew up on and it is nice to see that younger people like it also. Maybee country is not dead.
Chunky797 1 year ago
I have been working in the oilfields for 33 years, I was a driller for 15 years of it and could not count how many wells I have drilled in my career, I have no kids, but I have had a kid that I met when he was 8, he now is 23 and goes to the bar with me when I come home from the rig in Wy where I work now. I love this song, I'm following the path. The american oilfield is a dying breed!!!!!!!!!!
offshoredriller1 1 year ago
Country will never be dead! Was never a fad and never will be.
doejoemoe 1 year ago
daisy
Chunky797 1 year ago
This is the first version of the song I heard (and I'd swear it had an actual video too), but I think David Allan Coe's version may be the definitive one.
lugnut0 1 year ago
nancy griffin's version of this on letterman is ..........stirring
probinson1337 1 year ago
I'm a new timer but love the old timers!!
fukmehard2 1 year ago 3
Old timers are cool. I could listen to them bullshit for quite a while. They might have a piece of advice I might take.
Sometimes I feel out of touch with my age group. I have no idea where we're going.
nevaseenamancry 1 year ago 3
Jocke G! R.I.P!
PiznizBizniz 2 years ago
One of the best songs thats every written! And I love this version just like I love Highwaymen
AgustaBeata 2 years ago 4
im 27 i was brought up on this i love it
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daizy38 2 years ago
me too.. reminds me of my dad. :/
LookAliveJameson 2 years ago 2
When I hear this song I think of a few years ago, driving West on Route 66, near Ludlow, watching a train going West next to me.
Albacorewing 2 years ago 3
Kris, is one of the most prolific writers ever. The man is a Rhodes Scholar for Christ's sake.
MrDanBlather 2 years ago 2
I'm confused. What do vampire movies have to do with these great legends?
Kris has done more than starred in a shitty movie with Wesley Snipes. He wrote "Me and Bobby McGee" which Janis popularized.
nevaseenamancry 2 years ago 5
Has there ever been anyone cooler than the RUBBER DUCK in the movie CONVOY?
hs3fan 1 year ago
@hs3fan He's hard to top, man. Loved how he survived the shootout. LOL. I didn't see it coming the first time I saw it.
nevaseenamancry 1 year ago
There has never been, nor (in my opinion) will there ever be a collection of talent and emotion like these four men. While many celebrate Willie and Johnny, Kris and Waylon are every bit as much a part of a past we will never be able to recapture...a better time and a better kind of music.
Keep coming back again, Highwaymen...
Aeryn007 2 years ago 4
Don't the words just say it all, poetry, pure poetry!!!!!!!
paddyj555 2 years ago 2
My favourite song of all time, they were just the best !!!!!!!!!
paddyj555 2 years ago
American Heroes! Wouldn't they be ashamed to see us now?
One day I looked up and he's pushin 80 and There's brown tobacco stains all down his chin To me he's one of the heroes of this country, so why is he dressed up like them old men?
nevaseenamancry 2 years ago
Superb song. One of their best
AnndraMA 2 years ago
i am twelve and i love johnny cash willie nelson and waylon jennings and kris kristerferson LUV EM ALL and rest in peace waylon and johnny we all miss yall!
jtbrabham 2 years ago
If this doesn't emotionally affect you, where the hell are you? I wish they'd make this kind of music again. I'm too young to feel this way and it sucks...
Sure, "other music" is okay when you're trying to fit in but this has substance. Just sayin'.
nevaseenamancry 2 years ago 2
OMG!
I love this song!
JoieGurl3 2 years ago
Star?? I am just a Singer, and half a musician
Grifiki 2 years ago
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I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH
"like desperados waiting for the train"
jtbrabham 2 years ago
Guy Clark sang this song originally, this song was about him and his grandmothers boyfriend at the time, Guy looked up to him as if he was his grandfather. Jerry jeff walker is another badass :} (Grifiki) if you like these guys you should check him out
mountainman1103 2 years ago
I know that! I had their LP.
Grifiki 2 years ago
I am an ex Englishman... Do you know Max Bygraves??? I know real American Country. Not pretenders. Who sang the Song. Jodi and the Kid? Dont tell me about American Country. I remember the best, You still think of the rest..
Grifiki 2 years ago 2
This song was sang by 4 of the greatest singers of all time:
Willie Nelson
Johnny Cash
Waylon Jennings
Kris Kristopherson
ssgdebity 2 years ago 50
dont hate me but who is Kris Kristopherson i luv this song and want to know everyone who sings it i am still a kid who cant remember much
fourducklings 2 years ago
didn't you ever see the "blade" movies? he was Whistler.
pukedragon 2 years ago
no i havent seen that movie how old is it? im only 11
fourducklings 2 years ago
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i'd say it's around 7 or 8 years old? there's 3 of them, but i guess you wouldn't have seen it, its about vampires. But at any rate, kris kirsopherson is more famous for the movies he was in than his music, i can't even think of what other music he's done. Both his music and movies were more around in the 70's and maybe the 60's.
pukedragon 2 years ago
i love movies about vampires! not twilight though i want to see some of his movies are they good
fourducklings 2 years ago
The blade movies are mostly with Wesley Snipes, but Kristopherson is in the 1st and 3rd one. The only other movie i can think of that he played a major roll in right now is "Convoy" about Truck Drivers. But i'm sure he's been in dozens of movies, mostly in the 70's and 80's, i think alot of western-type.
pukedragon 2 years ago
Have you ever heard of Pat Garett and Billy the Kid? Starring James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson? It's real nice!
SGRollingStone 2 years ago
@SGRollingStone
understatement of the millennium
littlekasino 2 years ago 2
you can find one of his movies here on youtube it has kris in it and johnny cash and even david allan coe. type in the last days of frank and jesse james. its a good one
sgrocker99 2 years ago
@ssgdebity U know it!
thistlebear13 1 year ago
I didn't hear hansi kursch or roy orbison in that list so it must be false.... :)
undericesinger 1 year ago
@ssgdebity are you saying kris k is 'one of the best singers of all time'???:O
c'mon, he's a great actor, i'll give him that.....but there are quite a few in front of him on that list...don't you think??
zillmannz 1 year ago
@zillmannz Few wrote bettern him
rajulyra 1 year ago
@ssgdebity 50th thumbs up.... amazing tunes!!
kingston0708 1 year ago
Who the hell is jerry jeff? These are four of the greatest. Only two still live. Does anyone remmeber Real Country? Hank Williams. Hank Snow. My Favorite??? Who was he? I forget..
Grifiki 2 years ago
You talk about real country but don't know who Jerry Jeff Walker is? I sincerely hope you are kidding.
Bassnote 2 years ago 7
Come on
LA Freeway, Mr. Bojangles, Up Against the Wall (Redneck Mother), Hairy Ass Hillbilies, Pissin in the WInd? any Ring a bell?
Jesus what has the world come to. He is right there with thease guys, but he never sold out to a big label so he never got his true fame. Listen to LA Freeway. He wrote Mr. Bojangles.
Real Country. JJW is GOD
elirednecker 2 years ago
Jerry Jeff didnt write Up Against the Wall or LA Freeway
jmoss35976 2 years ago
Ray Wylie Hubbard wrote Up Against the Wall
mjaym23 2 years ago
I think you have "real country" confused with "Texas outlaw or free country". "Real country music" is hardly being written or recorded today. Just a few "new" artist are even brave enough to do "real country". I've been doing studio work and playing a lot of demo gigs for the past 20 years down here, and only about 1 in 50 songs qualifies as "real country". I am 63 years old, and I remember "real country" and it's not L.A. Freeway, Mr. Bojangles, or any of those other songs you mentioned!
coleyman1 2 years ago
Thats pretty much what I was saying, Im an old timer too, and I dont even remember saying that...
elirednecker 2 years ago
I guess all "old timers" think alike..... Winter well, my friend.
coleyman1 2 years ago
Let's be fair about this. Jerry Jeff is not a "country music" icon like these guys, but Jerry Jeff, Guy Clark ,Townes, Ray Wylie, and a host of others have their own great following. Not Nashville country, but Texas country. Independent of almost everything the "country establishment" has to offer. Most made there living having Nashville folks do their songs, but that's because the songs were so damned good that Nashville recording artist just couldn't pass them up. "Real Country is long gone!
coleyman1 2 years ago 3
Dont forget Jerry Chesnut in this group, in my opinion he is one of the best to ever come down the pike and I'm proud to say he's a friend to all. youre right about real Country being almost gone there are darn few real country artist's left...
cestesbrandese 2 years ago
i know country. real country no this crap wrapped up in black people music,,r&b crap new country sucks
666Angelfuck 2 years ago
Jim Reeves`...
Grifiki 2 years ago
Pretty good version, but IMO no one perfoms this like Jerry Jeff
deserthawk1 2 years ago
I always liked Rita Coolidge's version of this. Damn had to get hold of.
DaMuttzNutz 2 years ago
one of my favorite songs....... very nice!
MissHollisBrown 2 years ago 3
This song reminds me of some old guy I used to hang out with when I was really young. He taught me alot. Now it reminds me of the young guys I talk to all the time. I am an Electrician and never worked on an oil rig. I am an old school man of the world though.
sleepingbagpiper 2 years ago
awesome! loved the highwaymen ; we miss the two that are gone waylon and johnny rest in peace.
grannydyess 2 years ago 6
what does he actually say?
'and wonder lord, does every well i drill run dry?'
'and wonder lord, as ever, will that drill run dry?'
federicotak 2 years ago
I think it's "has every well I drilled run dry?"
sgilbraith 2 years ago
It's "has every well I drilled run dry" but in parts of the South "every" is sometimes pronounced "ever". It actually adds a note of authenticity to the song, which is beautiful portrait of the sort of old guys I grew up around.
LeeSawyer 2 years ago
THE RISE OF SCIENCE DID A COVER OF THIS SONG <3 listen to it on their myspace. it's incredible. :p
xparkinglotromance 2 years ago
Great, really great!
mmg1956 2 years ago
awesome! beautiful song. these four were great. we will miss u johnny and waylon but u live on in ur music.
grannydyess 2 years ago 2
Chills!
mbwusc1313 2 years ago 2
Thanks for this song....this was a song I grew up with....the haunting music always brought up interesting images.
wolfwing1 2 years ago
This song is so powerful! It's almost hard to listen too. I hear it, think of and feel Shasta city and Lake Siskiyou. I miss those places so much. These Highwaymen songs and those locations will always be associated together within my mind and my heart.
Romexmagi69 2 years ago