What example is cited by the Highwaymen in the Billy Joe and Eddy Shaver song "Live Forever"?
[2008-09-25 15:45:09]

Q: is a way that they will live forever after they are gone?

A: "Just like the songs I leave behind me, I'm gonna live forever now"

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Looking for correct spelling for Billy Jo Shafer? or Shaver the country singer and writer.?
[2006-06-21 12:18:29]

Songs include I've Been to Georga on a Fast Train & Live Forever

Billy Joe Shaver...
I've Been to Georgia on a Fast Train
Billy Joe Shaver


On a rainy, windy morning that's the day that I was born in
In the old sharecroppers one room country shack
They say my mammy

JC's Ramblings: Billy Joe Shaver - Live Forever

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who as the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt]

Source: JC's Ramblings: Billy Joe Shaver - Live Forever

Billy Joe Shaver

20.05.12


"Oh, it's you again," says Billy Joe Shaver, laughing into the phone when I had to call him back to resume our interview after being disconnected. Shaver was right in the middle of an anecdote about riding around for a week with Waylon Jennings and songwriter, poet, and artist Shel Silverstein. Before we got cut off, he had begun the story: "Me and Waylon and Shel Silverstein were out [on the road] for about a week just ridin' around. We got to tellin' jokes, and we told so many of 'em we started numberin' our jokes!" When I got him back on the phone, I tried unsuccessfully to get him to finish the yarn but he just laughed and said, "Man, I got in trouble last time I told that one." Regardless, a brief chat with the man hailed as the king of the honky-tonk singers as he drives from Texas to the Flora-Bama Lounge is warm and hilarious.

Billy Joe Shaver's life has been one of trial, tribulation, and heartache. His father tried to kill his mother while she was still pregnant

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How do you picture your funeral...?
[2007-06-21 10:46:57]

Here is mine...

I've already made a recording of me saying things like:
"hey, hows it going"
"I guess now I can admit to peeing in the pool"
"I thought I asked for a sleep number mattress

The wife is planning on donating my body to a medical school, bypass any kind of ceremony and have the most embarrassing picture of me that she can find to display, while everyone tells the worst stories of me that they have.

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