• Home
  • Newest
  • Browse
  • Request
  • List
  • More
    Library
    Community Artists Libraries Suggest Map About
    Login
mg? HMEE

Ems n5 Ex

20m.mDI wUDEm
uO wde mg 3
I WAS LOST
IN TROUBLE AND STRIFE
I HEARD A VOICE
AND IT CHANGED
MY LIFE
YOU'RE NOT LONELY
WHEN YOU'RE DOWN
AND OUT
I THINK YOU KNOW
WHO I'M
TALKIN' ABOUT
WHEN I DON'T KNOW
HOW I'LL GET THROUGH
I ASK MYSELF
WHAT WOULD
'OL WILLIE DO
LONG AGO
HE CAME UNTO US
HIS WORDS WERE
SIMPLE
BUT THEY WENT RIGHT
THROUGH US
HE WAS GONE
AND WE THOUGHT
1U'UE'D LOST HIM
BUT HE JUST
GREW HIS HAIR
AND HE MOVED

TO AUSTIN l
AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE
SMILED
THEY CAME
TO HEAR HIM SING
FROM MILES
LIKE A MIRACLE
ALL THE REDNECKS
AND THE HIPPIES
FROM NEW YORK CITY

DOWN
TO MISSISSIPPI
STOOD TOGETHER AND
RAISED A BREW
SO WHEN ITS ALL GONE
WRONG
WHAT WOULD
OL' WILLIE DO
4 BAR
BREAK
YOU KNOW
SOMETIMES I WONDER
WHEN I AIN'T GETTIN'
NDVVHERE
WHAT WOULD
OL' WILLIE D0
WHEN THINGS GET
TOO MUCH TO BEAR
AND I SEE HIM SITI'IN'
ON HIS LONELY OL' BUS
AND HE'S GOT
HIS PROBLEMS
JUST LIKE ANY OF US
THEN I BET
HE'D FEEL HUNGRY
IN A WAY
THAT SEEMS STRANGE
YES HUNGRY
FOR ALL THE THINGS
HE JUST CAN'T CHANGE
LIKE THE TIME
HE PASSED OUT
IN HIS OWN BEDROOM
AND YOU THINK
THAT THAT'S ROUGH
WELL THEN THE I.R.S.
CAME
AND THEY TOOK AWAY
ALL HIS STUFF
SO WHEN ITS ALL
COMING DOWN ON YOU
I THINK YOU BETTER
ASK YOURSELF
WHAT WOULD
OL' WILLIE DO
WHAT WOULD WILLIE DO
HE TRAVELS AFAR
WITH NOTHIN' BUT

A SONG
AND AN OLD GUITAR
AND A TOUR BUS
AND SOME SEMI TRUCKS
AND THIRTY CREW MEN

AND A LITTLE BIT

OF LUCK
HEY IF YOU DON'T
BELIEVE IT
TAKE A LOOK AT
THE FAMILY
THEY'LL TELL YOU
THAT ITS TRUE

g
WHEN IT'S ALL
TOO MUCH
WHAT WOULD WLLIE DO
WHAT WOULD WILLIE DO
HE'D TAKE A LITTLE TIME
AND HE'D TALK
TO OLD ROOSTER
AS THEY DRIVE DOWN
THAT LINE
HE LOVES ALL
THE PEOPLE
NO MATTER THEIR RACES
HELL HE EVEN MADE
A HIT COUNTRY SONG
WITH JULIO IGLESIAS
AND THAT AIN'T EASY
TO DO

SO WHEN ITS ALL
TOO MUCH
WHAT WOULD OL' WILLIE

WHEN THE GAME
GETS ROUGH
WHAT WOULD OL' WILLIE
WHEN THEY CALL
YOUR BLUFF
WHAT WOULD OL' WILLIE
DO
Written By

TILTAWHIRL MUSIC (BMIJ

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
USED BY PERMISSION
Previous Next
Title
What Would Willie Do
Artist
Bruce Robison
Brand
Chart Buster
(3 Other Versions)
Codes
CB20307-09 CB60227-04
Genres
alt country, americana, country music, folk, red dirt, texas country, traditional folk music