I cant think of the Old Country Song that goes...?

Question

Can you bend those guitar strings...an then something like...Can you make then cry and sing... I thought it was by Hank, Merel, or Waylon

Answer 1

David Allen Coe THE RIDE


I was thumbing from Montgomery
I had my guitar on my back
When a stranger stopped beside me in an antique Cadillac
He was dress like 1950
Half drunk and hollow eyed
He said its a long walk to Nashville would you like a ride son

Well I sat down in the front seat
He turned on the radio
And them sad old songs coming outta them speakers was solid country gold
Then I noticed the stranger was ghost white pale
When I asked him for a light
And I knew there was something strange about this ride

Chorus
He said drifter can you make folks cry when you play and sing
Have you paid your dues?
Can you moan the blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings?
He said boy can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
Cause if your big star bound let me warn you it's a long hard ride

Well he cried just south of Nashville
And he turned that car around
He said this is where you get off boy
I'm goin' back to Alabam
And as I stepped outta that Cadillac
I said mister many thanks
He said you don't have to call me mister mister
The whole world calls me Hank

Chorus
He said drifter can you make folks cry when you play and sing
Have you paid your dues?
Can you moan the blues?
Can you bend them guitar strings?
He said boy can you make folks feel what you feel inside?
Cause if your big star bound let me warn you it's a long hard ride

Answer 2

Gary Gentry wrote this hit for David Allan Coe. Hank Williams, Jr. also recorded it later.

Answer 3

It is David Allen Coe, written about Hank Sr.
However, recently Tim Mcgraw did a remake that was pretty good :)

Answer 4

david allen coe

its called the ride,its about hank williams sr.

Answer 5

I believe Alan Jackson done his version of this song and it was good too.

Answer 6

umm thanks to all of you that answered this I learned something to day. : )