Django and Jimmie

[Verse 1: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard]

I'm a kid with a guitar

Trying to play "Nuages", when they ask

Where does your style come from?

I know what you mean

Because I learned to sing

Listening to "Blue Yodel Number One"

We love Hank and Lefty

Bob Wills, Ernest Tubb, and Johnny Cash

But if we had to pin point

The start of who we are

Or who we go by

[Chorus: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard]

The Django and Jimmie

Has Mississippi

A young singing brakeman

A jazz playing gypsy

Might not have been

A Merle or a Willie

If not for a Django and Jimmie

[Verse 2: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard]

Through the twenties and thirties

Jimmie sang his way to the top

In spite of those old "TB Blues"

Django was a star

He burned up a guitar

With just two good fingers to use

You can't turn back time

Or put more sand in the glass

But sometimes at night

I close my eyes and go back

[Chorus: Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard]

The Django and Jimmie

Has Mississippi

A young singing brakeman

A jazz playing gypsy

Might not have been

A Merle or a Willie

If not for a Django and Jimmie