Off Beat - I'll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again

He's perhaps best associated with with the country music outlaw movement of the 70s, but Willie Nelson was a struggling, yet successful Nashville songwriter in the 60s and an iconic American performer for the last several decades. His run ins with the law are well documented from tax evasion to getting busted for pot possession in 2006 at the age of 73. Indeed, it was his predilection for pot that inspired Toby Keith and his songwriting partner Scotty Emerick to pen Weed With Willie. It was released on Keith's 2003 album Shock'n Y'all.

The song is based on an incident when Toby and Scotty visited Willie on his tour bus to talk about Willie and Toby doing a duet of Beer For My Horses. Willie agreed, the song went to #1 but not before the trio had a smokey night to remember and the inspiration for a song.

There's a story about the marijuana advocate saying he'd cut back on his weed intake. When asked if he'd done it for his health, Willie said "No, it's just getting harder to find the good stuff."

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I always heard that his herb was top shelf

I just could not wait to find out for myself

Don't knock it til' you tried it, Well I tried it my friend

And I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

I learned a hard lesson in a small Texas town

He fired up a fat boy and passed him around

The last words that I spoke before they tucked me in

Was I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

My party's all over before it begins

You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend

But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

I hopped on his old bus, the Honey Suckle Rose

The party was Vegas it was after the show.

Alone in the front lounge with just me and him,

With one parting puff grim creeper set in.

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

My party's all over before it begins

You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend

But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

Now we're passing the guitar and telling good jokes

I know ones a-comin' cause I'm smelling smoke

No I do not partake, I just let it pass by

With a smile on my face and a great contact high

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

My party's all over before it begins

You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend

But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

In the fetal position with drool on my chin

I messed up and smoked weed with Willie again