WILLIE AND LAURA MAE JONES
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(Tony Joe White)
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¡ì ¨Ï '71 Combine Music, BMI ¡í
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Willie and Laura Mae Jones were our neighbours a long time back
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They lived down the road from us in a shack just like our shack
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We worked the fields together learned to count on each other
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When you live off the land you ain't got time to think of another man's color
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The cotton was high and the corn was growing fine
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That was another place and another time
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Sit out on the front porch every evening when the sun went down
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Willie would play and Laura would sing and them younguns'd dance around
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I'd bring out my guitar and we'd play on through the night
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Every now and then ol' Willie would grin and say boy you play all right
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The cotton was high...
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The years rolled past our land and took back what they'd given
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We all knew we'd had to move if we were gonna make a livin'
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So we all moved off and went about our separate ways
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It sure was hard to say goodbye to Willie and Laura Mae
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The cotton was high...
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The years rolled past our doors and we heard of them no more
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When I saw Willie downtown the other day
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Said y'all stop right by now we could all sit down and eat by
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Sure love to see your children and Laura Mae
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Shook his head real slow and his eyes were kind
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This is another place and another time
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The cotton was high...
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Willie And Laura Mae Jones
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| Waylon Jennings |
