The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall

作词：Tom T. Hall

作曲：Tom T. Hall

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