that Clayton Delaney died
They said for the last two weeks
that he suffered and cried
It made a big impression on me
although I was a barefoot kid
They said he got religion at the end
Oh, Daddy said he drank a lot
but I could never understand
I knew he used to picked up in Ohio
Clayton used to tell me son
you better put that old guitar away
There ain't no money money in it
it'll lead you to an early gray
Clayton taught me how to drink booze
I can see him half stoned
pickin` up the Lovesick blues
When Clayton died I made him a promise
I was gonna carry on somehow
I'd give a hundred dollars
if he could only see me now
that Clayton Delaney died
but I went out in the woods and I cried
Well I know there's a lotta big preachers
that know a lot more than I do
But it could be that the good Lord
likes a little picking too
that Clayton Delaney died
