The Year That Clayton Delaney Died-Bobby Bare

[ti:The Year That Clayton Delaney Died] [ar:Bobby Bare] [al:For The Good Times] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare) [00:08.51]I remember the year [00:10.44]That Clayton Delaney died [00:14.99] [00:15.97]They said for the last two weeks [00:18.31]That he suffered and cried [00:21.01] [00:23.10]It made a big impression on me [00:25.81] [00:26.73]Although I was a barefoot kid [00:30.01] [00:30.69]They said he got religion [00:32.08]At the end and I'm glad that he did [00:35.19] [00:38.00]Clayton was the best guitar picker in our town [00:43.30] [00:44.62]I thought he was a hero and [00:47.03]I used to follow Clayton around [00:50.58] [00:52.10]I often wondered why Clayton [00:55.89]Who seemed so good to me [01:00.01]Never took his guitar and made it down [01:02.51]In Tenn-o-see [01:04.17] [01:07.12]Well daddy said he drank a lot [01:09.03]But I could never understand [01:12.25] [01:14.30]I knew he used to pick up in Ohio [01:16.80]With a five-piece band [01:19.93] [01:21.64]And Clayton used to tell me [01:23.27]"Son you better put [01:24.54]That old guitar away" [01:29.02]There ain't no money in it [01:30.76]Itll lead you to an early grave [01:34.71] [01:36.20]I guess if I'd admit it [01:38.10]Clayton taught me how to drink booze [01:40.76] [01:43.62]I can see him half-stoned a-pickin [01:45.84]Out the lovesick blues [01:47.77] [01:50.57]When Clayton died I made him a promise [01:54.30]I was gonna carry on somehow [01:56.96] [01:58.18]I'd give a hundred dollars if he could [02:00.63]Only see me now [02:02.21] [02:05.15]I remember the year [02:07.22]That Clayton Delaney died [02:10.53] [02:12.73]Nobody ever knew it but I went out [02:15.25]In the woods and I cried [02:17.22] [02:19.77]Well I know there's a lotta big preachers that [02:23.71]Know a lot more than I do [02:26.54] [02:27.30]But it could be that the good Lord likes [02:29.47]A little pickin too [02:32.17] [02:34.18]Yeah I remember the year [02:36.49]That Clayton Delaney died