Boxcar Willie - Roy Acuff

How I love that old melody they are playing,

I’ve heard it in so many different songs.

It’s made stars of country music singers,

And the tune just keeps playing on.

Oh, I’m thinking tonight of my blue eyes,

Seems to me its been around since time began,

It was there with our solders during war time,

And right today we still hear it now and then.

Roy Acuff was a young country singer

Who’s record were just starting to be heard

That old tune took him right up to stardom

on the wings of the great speckled bird.

Hank Thomson is a country music legend

He sang western swing and songs of grief and strife

That same tune gave Hank the break he needed

On a record called the wild side of life.

A young girl made the world stop and listen

Kitty Wells was that young singers name

It wasn’t God who made honky tonk angels

That melody ran clear as country rain.

Those note must have came straight out of heaven

In so many different songs they were the same

I know someday they’ll be etched in gold forever

And placed in the country music hall of fame

And placed in the country music

Hall of fame…