WAYLON JENNINGS - ROUGH AND ROWDY DAYS

ROUGH AND ROWDY DAYS

WAYLON JENNINGS

SONGWRITERS: Roger Murrah & Waylon Jennings

COUNTRY:U.S.A.

WHERE?:THE TOMMY HUNTER SHOW 1988

ALBUM: A MAN CALLED HOSS

LABEL:MCA RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1988

"My Rough and Rowdy Days" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. It was released in September 1987 as the first single from the álbum A Man Called Hoss. The song reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart. The song was written by Jennings and Roger Murrah.

Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced /ˈweɪlənˈdʒɛnɪŋz/; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Jennings began playing guitar at eight and began performing at 14 on KVOW radio. His first band was The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, and KLLL. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings's first recording session, of "Jole Blon" and "When Sin Stops (Love Begins)". Holly hired him to play bass. In Clear Lake, Iowa, Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. Richardson, Ritchie Valens, and pilot Roger Peterson.

Jennings then worked as a DJ in Coolidge, Arizona, and Phoenix. He formed a rockabilly club band, The Waylors. He recorded for independent label Trend Records and A&M Records before succeeding with RCA Victor after achieving creative control.

You keep barrelin' on and you don't look back

your mind is gone

and you're losing track of who you want to be

and you think you're free [x2 fading out at end]

when you still want more and you've done it all

you're kickin' doors and climbin' walls

you've gone far enough

you need to straighten up [x3 fading out at end]

[Chorus:]

Girl you came along and just in time

to show me the way

while I was wadin' through

my rough and rowdy days [x1 rough and rowdy days]

How can you know what life's about

when upside down is inside out

you know you need some help

you can't help yourself [x2 fading out at end]

[Chorus x2]