Waylon Jennings

Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand

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I'm for the law and order the way that it should be
This song's about the night they spent protecting you from me
Someone called us outlaws in some old magazine
New York sent a posse down like I ain't never seen

Don't y'all think this outlaw bit's done got out of hand?
What started out to be a joke the law don't understand
Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?
Maybe this here outlaw bit's done got out of hand, out of hand

We were wrapped up in our music, that's why we never saw
Cars pull up, the boys get out and the room fills up with law
They came boundin' through the backdoor in the middle of a song
They got me for possession of something that was gone, long gone

Don't y'all think this outlaw bit's done got out of hand?
What started out to be a joke the law don't understand
Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man? Oh Lord
Or, maybe this here outlaw bit's done got out of hand
Well, don't y'all think this outlaw bit's done got out of hand, out of hand?

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by frolona

13y ago

This song was written by Waylon Jennings. It is about his run in with the cops trying to get him on possession of coke(singin through the nose). but while his manager stalled them he went and flushed down the toilet(possession of something that was gone). It is a play off of him and some others being branded "outlaw country" because they were buckin the nashville system and doing their on thing.This by the way is documented in his autoiography.

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