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Author:  Joe Z
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Date:  10/6/2003 9:51:42 AM
Subject:  Re: Waylon's 'Cowboy's Don't Cry'
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Complimenting, or in some circles, complementing his songwriting skills, Wesley Rose gave Mickey a song to complete, which had been partially written by one of his heroes. When Hank Williams was found dead in his car, a shoebox was discovered containing his half-unfinished "Cowboys Don’t Cry." Mick completed the song a few years later, and Waylon Jennings covered it. But as Mick did not like how he had finished it, 25 years later he would redo the song. He sang it to me once over the phone... Simply Beautiful. Perhaps one day it will be released.

"COWBOYS DON’T CRY, so they tell me /
Ah, but here's one that's lonesome tonight /
The love that would shine /
When she was all mine /
Is now drifting away with the light /

Sometimes I think of my heartache /
Rememb'ring the love we once knew /
It's then they roam /
So far from my home /
There's nothing else left now to do /

Listen to me all you cowboys /
When I die will one of you sing /
I'm going away /
Where the whippoorwills stay /
And bury my guitar with me"


 Waylon's 'Cowboy's Don't Cry' by John D  at 10/4/2003 9:11:29 AM
 Re: Waylon's 'Cowboy's Don't Cry' by rodeo at 10/4/2003 11:45:07 AM
 Re: Waylon's 'Cowboy's Don't Cry' by Roy at 10/4/2003 7:17:30 PM
 Re: Waylon's 'Cowboy's Don't Cry' by Joe Z at 10/6/2003 9:51:42 AM
 Re: Waylon's 'Cowboy's Don't Cry' by John D  at 10/6/2003 1:32:30 PM
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