Hank Williams Jr. And Waylon Jennings – The Conversation

Hank Williams Jr. And Waylon Jennings – The Conversation, is a song recorded by American country music artists Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams Jr. Originally, the song was included on Williams Jr.’s 1979 album Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound. The track was later reissued on Jennings’ 1983 album Waylon and Company, which consisted almost entirely of duets, and was released as the album’s second radio single. A music video was made to promote the single, a rarity for country music at the time. It was the first for Jennings and the second for Williams, with his first being “Queen of My Heart”. The song was a moderately successful hit and reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

The song recounts a conversation in which Jennings inquires about Williams’s parents, Hank Williams Sr. and Audrey Williams.

Hank Williams Jr. And Waylon Jennings – The Conversation
From the album Waylon and Company
B-side “Fancy Free”
Released October 22, 1983
Genre Country
Length 3:51
Label RCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., Richie Albright
Producer(s) Waylon Jennings

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Hank Williams Jr. And Waylon Jennings – The Conversation Lyrics

[Waylon:]
Hank let’s talk about your daddy
Tell me how your momma loved that man
[Hank:]
Well, just break a bottle hoss
I’ll tell ya’ about the drifting cowboy band
[Waylon:]
We won’t talk about the habits
[Waylon & Hank]
Just the music and the man thats all
[Waylon:]
Now Hank, you just gotta tell me
Did your daddy really write all them songs, did he
[Hank:]
That don’t deserve no answer hoss
Let’s light up and just move along
[Waylon:]
Do you think he wrote ’em about your momma
Or about the man who done her wrong
You know that
[Waylon & Hank:]
Yeah, back then they called him crazy
Nowadays they call him a saint
Now the ones that call him crazy
Are still riding on his name
[Waylon:]
Well, if he was here right now Bocephus
Would he think that we were right?
Do you think he might?
[Hank:]
Don’t you know he would Watasha
Be right here by our side
[Waylon:]
If we left for a show in Provo
[Waylon & Hank:]
Be the first one on the bus and ready to ride
Last one to go hoss
[Waylon:]
Wherever he is I hope he’s happy
You know, I hope he’s doing well
Yes, I do
[Hank:]
He is
‘Cause he’s got one arm around my momma now
And her sure did love Miss Audrey and raising hell
[Waylon:]
I won’t ask you no more questions
[Waylon & Hank:]
To the stories only Hank could tell
And he could tell’em
Back then they called him crazy
Now days they call him a saint
[Hank:]
Most folks don’t know that
They fired him from the Opry
And that ’caused his greatest pain
I’d love to tell you about lovesick
How Miss Audrey loved that man
[Waylon:]
You know, I’ve always loved to listen to
The stories about that drifting cowboy band
That man
[Hank:]
You know when we get right down to it
[Waylon & Hank:]
Still the most wanted outlaw in the land…
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