Waylon Arnold Jennings was born June 15, 1937 and raised in Littlefield, Texas. Jennings was one of the artists who helped father the country outlaw movement during 1970´s, refusing to play the popular Nashville sound at the time. At the age of 12 he worked as a DJ on a local radio station and shortly afterward he started his very first band. Two years later he left school to pick cotton for for a short time. He moved to Lubbock Texas in 1954 and found work at a radio station where he was introduced to the legendary Buddy Hollywho became a close friend and mentor.
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For The Kids Lyrics

Waylon Jennings

(Shel Silverstein)
You work like a slave for the kids
And I'd go to my grave for the kids
But we watched our love fade as we suffered that state
With this bargain we made for the kids.
Divorce is a curse for the kids
But this intention's much worse for the kids
Yes, they're now old enough and they made the strongest stuff
Still it's gonna be rough for the kids.
These teardrops that fall for the kids
You know they're really not all for the kids
But I know you don't care and the only love there
Is the love that'd be shared for the kids.
Find a new love you should for the kids
And I hope that he's good for the kids
And though I'm now out of sight if he don't treat them right
I'll be right back and I'll fight for the kids.
But I see you don't care the home that we shared
All our hopes and our prayers for the kids...