The Year That Clayton Delaney-Tom T.Hall

[ti:The Year That Clayton Delaney] [ar:Tom T.Hall] [al:Ultimate Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Year That Clayton Delaney - Tom T.Hall [00:08.03]I remember the year that clayton delaney died [00:12.27] [00:15.10]They said for the last two weeks that he suffered and cried [00:19.47] [00:22.39]It made a big impression on me although I was a barefoot kid [00:28.44] [00:29.98]They said he got religion at the end and I'm glad that he did [00:34.09] [00:37.35]Clayton was the best guitar picker in our town [00:41.32] [00:44.24]I thought he was a hero and I used to follow clayton around [00:48.86] [00:51.58]I often wondered why clayton who seemed so good to me [00:57.41] [00:58.96]Never took his guitar and made it down in tenn-o-see [01:02.89] [01:06.07]Well daddy said he drank a lot but I could never understand [01:10.23] [01:12.95]I knew he used to pick up in Ohio with a five-piece band [01:17.44] [01:20.68]Clayton used to tell me son you better put that old guitar away [01:26.96] [01:27.69]There ain't no money in it it'll lead you to an early grave [01:32.04] [01:34.66]I guess if I'd admit it clayton taught me how to drink booze [01:39.24] [01:42.17]I can see him half-stoned a-pickin' out the lovesick blues [01:47.08] [01:49.07]When clayton died I made him a promise I was gonna carry on somehow [01:55.20] [01:56.62]I'd give a hundred dollars if he could only see me now [02:00.48] [02:03.31]I remember the year that clayton delaney died [02:08.28] [02:10.67]Nobody ever knew it but I went out in the woods and I cried [02:15.39] [02:17.73]Well I know there's a lotta big preachers [02:21.07] [02:21.65]That know a lot more than I do [02:24.08] [02:25.14]But it could be that the good Lord likes a little pickin' too [02:29.32] [02:32.14]Yeah I remember the year that clayton delaney died