Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die Lyrics :

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Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die Lyrics :

 

Roll me up and smoke me when I die
And if anyone don’t like it, just look ’em in the eye
I didn’t come here, and I ain’t leavin’
So don’t sit around and cry
Just roll me up and smoke me when I die.
Now you won’t see no sad and teary eyes
When I get my wings and it’s my time to fly
Call my friends and tell them
There’s a party, come on by
And just roll me up and smoke me when I die.

Roll me up and smoke me when I die
And if anyone don’t like it, just look them in the eye
Say I didn’t come here, and I ain’t leavin’
So don’t sit around and cry
Just roll me up and smoke me when I die.
When I go out I’ve been here long enough
So sing and tell more jokes and dance and stuff
Just keep the music playing that’ll be as good as goodbye

Roll me up and smoke me when I die
Roll me up and smoke me when I die
And if anyone don’t like it, just look ’em in the eye
I didn’t come here, and I ain’t leavin’
So don’t sit around and cry
Just roll me up and smoke me when I die.
Hey take me out and build a roaring fire
And just roll me in the flames for about an hour
And then take me out and twist me up
And point me towards the sky

And roll me up and smoke me when I die.
Roll me up and smoke me when I die
And if anyone don’t like it, just look ’em in the eye
I didn’t come here, and I ain’t leavin’
So don’t sit around and cry
Just roll me up and smoke me when I die.
Just roll me up and smoke me when I die.

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About Willie Nelson :

American country singer-songwriter Willie Hugh Nelson was born on April 29, 1933, and is a musician and composer. As a response to the Nashville sound’s conservative limitations, the outlaw country subgenre emerged in the late 1960s, and he was one of its key players. Nelson became one of the most well-known musicians in country music because to the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), as well as the critical acclaim of his 1973 album Shotgun Willie.

In addition to co-writing multiple books and appearing in more than 30 movies, Nelson is an active supporter of the legalization of marijuana and the use of biofuels.At the age of seven, Nelson penned his first song, and at ten, he joined his first band. He was the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Bohemian Polka, which went on local tours during his high school years.

He enlisted in the US Air Force following his high school graduation in 1950, but his back issues caused him to be released a short time later. Nelson went at Baylor University for two years after his return, but left because he was getting good at music. During the late 1950s, he worked as a singer and songwriter in addition to working as a disc jockey at radio stations in his home state of Texas and the Pacific Northwest.

During that period, he composed songs such as “Crazy,” “Hello Walls,” “Funny How Time Slips Away,” and “Pretty Paper,” which went on to become country staples. He relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1960, and subsequently got a publishing deal with Pamper Music, which enabled him to become a bassist in Ray Price’s band. He recorded his debut album,…And Then I Wrote, in 1962.

Nelson secured a contract with RCA Victor in 1964 as a result of his popularity, and the following year he joined the Grand Ole Opry. Nelson went to Austin, Texas in 1972 after growing tired of the corporate Nashville music industry following mid-chart singles in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Nelson was inspired to resume singing by Austin’s thriving music culture, making regular appearances at the Armadillo World Headquarters.

Nelson shifted to outlaw country in 1973 after signing with Atlantic Records, releasing albums like Phases & Stages and Shotgun Willie. He moved to Columbia Records in 1975 and recorded the highly regarded album Red Headed Stranger there. Along with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser, he recorded another outlaw country album, Wanted! The Outlaws, in the same year.

In the middle of the 1980s, he was producing hit albums like Honeysuckle Rose and recording hits like “On the Road Again,” “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” and “Pancho and Lefty.” He also joined fellow singers Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson in the country supergroup The Highwaymen.

He assisted in setting up the inaugural Farm Aid event in 1985 to support American farmers; since then, the performances have been conducted yearly ever then, and Nelson has consistently been up for them all.The Internal Revenue Service confiscated Nelson’s assets in 1990 and said he owed $32 million. Weak investments made in the 1980s compounded his problem in making payments on his outstanding debt.

When Nelson released The IRS Tapes: Who’ll Buy My Memories? in 1992, the proceeds from the auction of his belongings and the double album, which was supposed to go to the IRS, paid off his debt. Nelson continued to tour frequently and release albums annually throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Reviews were mixed to positive. He experimented with folk, jazz, blues, and reggae music.

Following his initial appearance in the 1979 motion picture The Electric Horseman, Nelson went on to star in additional motion pictures and television shows. Nelson is a well-known liberal activist and the co-chair of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws’ (NORML) advisory board, which supports legalizing marijuana.

Regarding the environment, Nelson is the owner of the vegetable oil-based biodiesel product line under the Willie Nelson Biodiesel trademark. In addition, Nelson serves as the honorary chairman of the Texas Music Project advisory board, which is the official music charity of the state of Texas.

On April 29, 1933, Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas, the son of Myrle Marie (née Greenhaw) and Ira Doyle Nelson. Dr. F. D. Sims mistakenly noted his birthday as April 30. His cousin Mildred gave him the name Willie, and she also gave him the middle name Hugh, in memory of her younger brother who had passed away not too long before.

Nelson’s ancestor John Nelson was a major in the American Revolutionary War, whence he derives his ancestry. In 1929, his parents relocated from Arkansas to Texas in search of employment. His father was a mechanic, while his grandfather, William, was a blacksmith. Nelson and his sister were left behind when his father remarried and moved away, and his mother left shortly after Nelson was born.

Bobbie was nurtured by their grandparents, who began their grandchildren’s musical education and taught singing back in Arkansas.
When Nelson was six years old, his grandfather gave him a guitar and taught him a few chords. Nelson then played gospel music with Bobbie in the neighborhood church. At the age of seven, he composed his first song.

At nine, he began playing guitar for the local band Bohemian Polka. The family helped other Abbott locals gather cotton over the summer. Nelson didn’t like picking cotton, so starting at the age of 13, he sang in dance halls, pubs, and honky tonks to make money. He did this all the way through high school. Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Hank Snow, Django Reinhardt, and Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong.

Nelson played guard for the basketball team, shortstop for the baseball team, and halfback for the football team at Abbott High School. Along with raising pigs, he was a Future Farmers of America member. He sang and played guitar with The Texans, a band that his sister’s husband, Bud Fletcher, started while he was still in school.

In addition to playing in honky tonks, the band performed live on Sunday mornings at KHBR in Hillsboro, Texas. Nelson, meantime, worked briefly as a relief phone operator in Abbott before going on to work as a pawn shop employee and a tree trimmer for the neighborhood power company. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1950 after graduating from high school; he served for nine months until being medically released due to of issues with his back.

He married Martha Matthews upon his return in 1952. He attended Baylor University to study agriculture from 1954 to 1956, when he joined the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, before leaving to pursue a career in music. He went on to work as a saddle maker, autohouse partsman, nightclub bouncer, and tree trimmer. Later on, he got into Johnny Bush’s group.

After relocating to Pleasanton, Texas, Nelson tried out for a position as a DJ at KBOP. Nelson had no radio experience, but Dr. Ben Parker, the station’s owner, hired him nevertheless. In 1955, Nelson recorded “The Storm Has Just Begun” and “When I’ve Sung My Last Hillbilly Song” using the station’s equipment.

After that, he worked for a while for KDNT in Denton, KCUL, and KCNC in Fort Worth, where he taught Sunday school, hosted The Western Express, and performed in nightclubs. After that, he made the decision to relocate to San Diego; but, after failing to secure employment there, he hitched a ride to Portland, Oregon, the home of his mother. He slept in a ditch until someone picked him up, at which point he boarded a freight train headed toward Eugene. He was taken to a bus station by a truck driver who gave him a ten-dollar loan to purchase a ticket to Portland.

Nelson was employed by Vancouver, Washington’s KVAN and made regular appearances on a TV program. In 1956, he released “No Place for Me,” his debut record, which featured Leon Payne’s “Lumberjack” on the B-side. The recording was not successful. Nelson carried on with his career as a radio announcer and club singer in Vancouver.

He went on to perform at a number of nightclubs in Colorado before relocating to Springfield, Missouri. He began working as a dishwasher after being rejected from the Ozark Jubilee. His employment was not fulfilling, so he returned to Texas. He briefly lived in Waco before relocating to Fort Worth and taking a year off from the music industry. He went door-to-door selling vacuum cleaners and bibles before rising to the position of sales manager for the Encyclopedia Americana.

The family relocated to Houston, Texas, in 1958 following the birth of their son Billy. Nelson made a stop at the Esquire Ballroom en route to pitch his original compositions to house band lead singer Larry Butler. Butler gave Nelson a $50 loan to rent an apartment and a six-night gig performing in the club instead of paying $10 for the song “Mr. Record Man.

” In Pasadena, Texas, Nelson rented an apartment close to Houston and had a sign-on disc jockey position at a radio station. He recorded “Man With the Blues”/”The Storm Has Just Begun” and “What a Way to Live”/”Misery Mansion” as two singles for Pappy Daily on D Records during this period. Paul Buskirk, a guitar instructor, then employed Nelson to serve as a teacher at his educational institution.

He received $50 for “Family Bible” and $150 for “Night Life” from Buskirk. In 1960, “Family Bible” became Claude Gray’s popular song.In 1960, Nelson relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, but he had trouble finding a label willing to sign him. He frequently spent time at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, a bar close to the Grand Ole Opry that was frequented by other singers and composers as well as the headliners of the show, during this time.

There, Nelson got to know Hank Cochran, a songwriter for Ray Price and Hal Smith’s publishing house, Pamper Music. Nelson was heard by Cochran at a jam session with Jimmy Day and Buddy Emmons. Cochran persuaded Smith to give Nelson the $50 per week rise that he had recently received.

Faron Young recorded Nelson’s rendition of “Hello Walls” after he saw her perform it at Tootsie’s. Nelson became a bass player in Ray Price’s touring band following the recording of his song “Night Life” and the departure of Johnny Paycheck, the band’s former bassist. His compositions, which he performed alongside Price and the Cherokee Cowboys, included “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Billy Walker),

“Pretty Paper” (Roy Orbison), and, most notably, “Crazy” (Patsy Cline). At Tootsie’s, Nelson and Cochran also got to know Cline’s husband, Charlie Dick. Dick enjoyed a Nelson song he heard on the jukebox in the bar. Nelson played him the “Crazy” demo cassette. Dick showed Cline the tape later that evening, and Cline decided to record it. “Crazy” went on to become the all-time greatest jukebox hit.

After Nelson signed with Liberty Records, he began recording at Nashville’s Bradley Studios in August 1961. In the following year, he released his first two hit songs as an artist: “Touch Me,” his second Top Ten, stalling at No. 7, and “Willingly,” a duet with his soon-to-be second wife, Shirley Collie, which became his first charting single and first Top Ten at No. 10.

During his time at Liberty, Nelson recorded his debut album, titled…And Then I Wrote, which was made available in September 1962. Collie and Nelson tied the knot in Las Vegas in 1963. After that, he was employed at Pamper Records’ Pico Rivera, California, west coast operations. He departed since the position did not give him the time to perform his own songs.

By fall of 1964, Nelson had moved to RCA Victor at Chet Atkins’s request, signing a $10,000-a-year contract. Nelson’s first RCA Victor album, Country Willie – His Own Songs, was recorded in April 1965. In 1967, he formed his backing band “The Record Men,” which included Johnny Bush, Jimmy Day, Paul English, and David Zettner. Nelson had no big hits during his first few years on RCA Victor, but from November 1966 through March 1969, his singles consistently reached the Top 25. Among them were “One in a Row” (#19, 1966), “The Party’s Over,” and “One in a Row.”

By 1970, the majority of Nelson’s songwriting royalties went toward tours that failed to turn a profit. Nelson also divorced Shirley Collie in 1970. In December, his ranch in Ridgetop, Tennessee, burned down. Nelson took this as a sign that something needed to change, and he moved to a ranch close to Bandera, Texas, where he married Connie Koepke.

Early in 1971, his single “I’m a Memory” reached the top 30. A year later, he recorded his last RCA single, “Mountain Dew” (backed by “Phases, Stages, Circles, Cycles, and Scenes). In late April 1972, RCA demanded that Nelson renew his contract early, implying that RCA would not release his most recent recordings if he declined.

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