You know, I don't know why,
but most people think of
Hank
Williams when you mention
David
Allen
Coe's name, and maybe it's because
the ride was such a hit for me.
But I was so disappointed when they did a
TV special on
Hank
Williams this year and
they asked
John
Anderson to sing the ride instead of me,
it broke my heart.
And I was telling
Mo about that at
King
Records.
They had just released
my latest album,
Lonesome
Fugitive, and he said, well, why don't we
go in the studio and cut
a tribute album to
Hank, an d call it
The
Ghost of
Hank
Williams
after the song you wrote at
Hank's grave.
And I said, man, that'd be great.
And
Mo said, well, what's your favorite
Hank
Williams songs?
I picked up the guitar,
started playing it, and I went...
I'm a rolling stone, all alone and lost
A life of sin, I have paid the cost
When I pass by, all the people say
Just another guy on
the lost highway
Just a deck of cards
an d a jug of wine
An d a woman's lies
makes a life like mine
On the day we met, I went astray
I started down that lost highway
I was just a lad,
merely twenty -two
Neither good nor bad,
just a kid like you
And now I'm lost, too late to pray
Lord, I paid the cost,
on the lost highway
Now boys don't stop,
you're running around
On the road of sin,
oh you're sorrow bound
Take my advice, you'll curse the day
You started traveling down
That lost highway, that lost highway
That lost highway,
that old lost highway
You