jerry jeff walker-stoney Lyrics

i first ran into stoney. it was a bar downtown
was richmond
virginia. we were bumming around
suitcase to suitcase. we started him talking
finding out about the things we’ve shared in the miles we’ve been
he had a gray pillowcase full of books by durrell
and he had this old concertina
all beat up and she played like hell
until you got him started singing those gospel songs
well
he drank all night for nothing
he told his stories till dawn
and he said
come on get your bag boy! sun’s up now and it’s time to roll hell you know there ain’t no better time than early in the morning to be out walking down that road just feeling another day beginning while some fools just rushing on by we’ll be like some mr. independence: we’re taking our own sweet time!” we walked on out that highway under a clear blue sky i’s listening to the tales he told drinking warm red wine ’bout the night he rolled seven; bout some girl he’d done wrong ’bout everything he could think of while we walked along yeah ol’ stoney had a magic; made him hard to forget like the night we flew down the highway was a crazy woman driving all drunked up and carrying on till stoney finally calmed her singing those gospel songs well we split the road at norwood and he just shook my hand he said “i’ll see you some place friend but you know he never has, but we were that free then, just walking down the road, never really caring where that highway goes, yeah, stoney was a liar ain’t no doubt about it, it was just the way he told things, and you never want to doubt him, ’cause he kept you going when the road got rough, and brought you through the lean times by making it up, hey did i ever tell you the time i married my cousin up in las vegas?” yeah stoney. tell it again will you?”