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@627dk You're right. On his first recording of the song, he used the word "then", but changed it later to "zen". That was long before the New Edition recorded the song, so they must have learned it from his first recording of it. If you want the accurate lyrics, to date, from the writer himsel...

Written by Mickey Newbury, and Etta is one of our family's favorite singers of all time.

@veeseee128 This song is An American Trilogy, which consists of Dixie, Battle Hymn of the Republic, and All My Trials. It reflects on the different perspectives of the civil war, and it was arranged by Mickey Newbury.

@teddie488 Yes, Waylon did a great job, and I meant no personal offense by the corrections. I was simply clarifying ;)

Love it....

My dad wrote the song, by the way ;)

written by Mickey Newbury

@UndyingBorracho

It's groups like CunninLynguists that keep me listening to hip hop. I'm fairly certain it was something my dad would have appreciated. He used to talk about how they "rapped" as kids, in Houston, and that it was "nothing new".

I hope it's artists like him that keep people li...

@GutShotHomie It was incredible growing up as a kid, and actually loving my dad's music. Not many people can say that. For a long time I wondered if I was just biased, or if he was actually as good as I thought he was.

After studying his music for years now, along with every other kind of m...

@wipsii

And, she's a young girl who's proud of her Uncle Mickey. I don't see anything wrong with that, as your rude post implies.

@sapiigor I've watched it, and heard it. In my biased opinion (he is my dad after all) nobody does it better than Mickey Newbury.

I'd also like to clarify that Jerry did like the song, or he would have never chosen to record the demo. More likely, it was his producer that decided to leave tha...