My favorite Shaver lyric is from his song
Black Rose:Quote:
When the devil made that woman
Lord, she threw the pattern away.
She was built for speed with the tools you need
To make a new fool every day.
When asked about the origins of that song, Shaver said:
Quote:
They wrote it up in Rolling Stone as Black Rose being heroin, and that just wasn't it.
What it was I was referring to a girl I had, uh well, had sexual relations with when I was 12 years old.
These boys talked me into the idea that if ya wanted to be a true Texan your first sexual encounter had to be with a black woman and I bought into it. So I was standing in line there with my three dollars in my hand and all of a sudden the line disappeared and there weren't no one but me.
The woman grabbed my three dollars and you'd be amazed at how fast you can become a true Texan.
She said "you're done" and that's all there was to it."
Waylon did a nice job on that song on the
Honky Tonk Heroes album, BTW.