Could It Be The Girls And Boys

Backstage At The Grand Ole Opry, I Got On My Knees And Told Her That I Was Going To Marry Her Some Day. We Were Both Married To Someone Else At The Time. ‘ring Of Fire’—june And Merle Kilgore Wrote That Song For Me-that’s The Way Our Love Affair Was. We Fell Madly In Love And We Worked Together All The Time, Toured Together All The Time, And When The Tour Was Over We Both Had To Go Home To Other People. It Hurt.

The Hardest Thing For Me In Vietnam Wasn't Seeing The Wounded And Dead. It Was Watching The Big Transport Jets Come In, Bringing Loads Of Fresh New Boys For The War.

This Business I'm In Is Different. It's Special. The People Around Me Feel Like Brothers And Sisters. We Hardly Know Each Other, But We're That Close; Somehow There's Been An Immediate Bonding Between Total Strangers. We Share Each Other's Triumphs, And When One Of Us Gets Hurt, We All Bleed - It's Corny, I Know, But It's True. I've Never Experienced Anything Like This Before. It's Great. It Turns Up The Heat In Life.

After About Three Lessons [my] Voice Teacher Said, "don't Take Voice Lessons. Do It Your Way. You're A Song Stylist. Always Do It Your Way."

When I'm Gone I'll Be Remembered As The Workin' Man Who Put His Point Across With A Right Hand Full Of Knuckles.