What Would Willie Do?? written by Bruce Robison
Album: Alright Guy
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I was lost in trouble and strife. I heard a
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voice and it changed my life. Now it?s a brand new
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day and I ain?t afraid to say. You?re not
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alone when you?re down & out and I think you know
who I?m talking about. When I don?t know how I?ll get
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through I ask myself what would Willie do?
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What would Willie do, well he?d travel so far with
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nothing but a song and his old guitar. And a
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tour bus and some semi-trucks, thirty crew men and
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a little bit of luck. Well he loves all the
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people, the ugly and the randy if you don?t
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believe me take a look at the family and they?ll
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tell you that it?s true. When skies are gray what
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would Willie do?
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Well long ago he came unto us, his words were
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simple but they went right through us and the
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whole world sang along but then they didn?t want
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to hear his songs. He was gone and we thought
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we?d lost him but he grew his hair and he moved to
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Austin, and all of the people smiled, they came to
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hear him sing from miles. Like a miracle all
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those rednecks & hippies from New York city
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down to Mississippi stood together and raised
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a brew. When it?s all gone wrong what would
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Willie do?
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You know sometimes I wonder when I ain?t getting
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nowhere just what would old Willie do when it all
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gets too much to bear. I can see him on his
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lonely old tour bus he?s got problems just like
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any of us. Well he?d just take a deep breath and
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then he?d let it all go, then he?d take another
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deep breath and let it all go, and he?d take
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another deep breath and he?d hold it. Aaah and
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I?d bet he?d feel hungry in a way that seems
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strange, yeah hungry for all the things that he
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just can?t change. Like the time he passed out in
his own bedroom and his wife sewed him up the sheets
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and beat him with a broom and he forgave her.
And you think that?s rough well then the IRS came and
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they took away all of his stuff. They took his
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golf course, his recording studio and he just went
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out and did another show.
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So when it?s all coming down on you better
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ask yourself what would Willie do?
What would Willie do well he?d take a little time and
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talk to old Rooster as he?d drive on down the line
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and there?s millions down that road and with a
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word he?s gonna lighten their load. He loves all
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the people no matter their races, hell he even had
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a hit country song with Julio Iglesias and that
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ain?t easy to do. So when it?s all too much
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what would Willie. . .when the game gets tough
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what would Willie. . .when they call your
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bluff what would Willie do?
