I'm a ghost on the radio

A needle on the vinyl

A country boy survival

The bottom of a bottle

I'm a fightin' side of you and me

And my heart's down in tennessee.

And I sing songs about freight trains and prisons

Heartaches and honky-tonks

And cowboys and outlaws

Good-hearted women

In boots and straw hats

All gone, just like that

They can't even recognize me

They used to call me country.

Used to have cool names like 'willie' and 'waylon'

'merle' and 'hank'

We all stood together

We sang and we drank

Chased the white lines

Night after night.

Singin' songs about freight trains and prisons

Heartaches and honky-tonks

And cowboys and outlaws

Good-hearted women

In boots and straw hats

All gone, just like that

They can't even recognize me

They used to call me country.

Like an old violin

Put away and never played again

Paycheck and cash

Naw, they ain't comin' back.

They did songs about freight trains and prisons

Heartaches and honky tonks

And cowboys and outlaws

Good-hearted women

In boots and straw hats

All gone, just like that

They can't even recognize me

They used to call me country.

They used to call me country

I'm a thing of the past

I'm a ghost on the radio.