Long Time Ago

I don`t look the way the average cowboy singer looks

I`ll admit I`ve taken things I never should of took

You can read a different story in a lot of different books

But even then you won`t really know how it was a long time ago

Women have been my trouble since I found out they weren`t men

In spite of that i stopped and took a wife now and then

They built their fences high but they couldn`t hold me in

I was born with a fire down below and I learned to fly a long time ago

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Don`t ask me about the years I spent out in the rain

About the ones I spent in love or the ones I spent insane

Don`t ask me who I gave my seat to on that plane

I think you already know I told you that a long time ago

Me and ol` Willie lordy we`ve been sold and bought

I guess you all heard about some kind of system that we fought

We ain`t the only outlaws just the only ones they caught

They tried to run us off but Willie`s slow I quit running a long time ago