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The Year That Clinton Delaney Died - Bobby Bare (Bobby Bare)
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
And 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