Jennings, Waylon - Wild Ones Lyrics






Straight out of nowhere
And a little bit out of our minds
We were courting disaster
With one foot over the line
It was one for the show
And two for ol' Shorty and me
We were the wild ones
We had the town up a tree

We were the wild ones
The ones they couldn't control
We were survivors
Good hearts, body and soul
We were the winners
Cause we didn't know we could fail
We were the wild ones
And we had the world by the tail

She was a lady
When a lady wasn't easy to be
Hangin' in limbo
She started hangin' with me
We were the music
Cause we had a song we could sing
We were the wild ones
And we had the world on a string

We were the wild ones
The ones they couldn't control
We were survivors
Good hearts, body and soul
We were the winners
Cause we didn't know we could fail
We were the wild ones
And we had the world by the tail

We were the wild ones
The ones they couldn't control
We were survivors
Good hearts, body and soul
We were the winners
Cause we didn't know we could fail
We were the wild ones
And we had the world by the tail

We had the world by the tail.





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  1. T.... G....

    The Legend ⬆️

  2. M.... G....

    Gotta be one of waylons best but yet least known songs

  3. J.... B....

    WHOA.....Tony Joe White playing acoustic guitar.....love this song!

  4. J.... V....

    I love this song even though Country music is not in my category.

  5. R.... G....

    Just saw this good ol' tune on heartland tv. Still relevant after all these years. I'm a dedicated rock and roller, but this transcends all stereotypes. Waylon was definitely the man.

  6. S.... G....

    always love this song

  7. M.... G....

    We were the wild ones....

  8. R.... S....

    I couldnt have said it better. So dam true

  9. Z.... ....

    Love Waylon and Jessi. Miss him and no one like him.

  10. M.... L....

    Waylon is nothing but the goat greatest of all time

  11. K.... D....

    Help make this video in Dickson County. I was the homeless man on wall. I was young at the time. Then years later my brother ended up marrying Waylon and Jessies daughter. Then had a boy. Miss my little nephew.

  12. T.... ....

    I've always been crazy , turned out to be a good thing

  13. T.... B....

    Brilliant just brilliant . I wanted to call my third son Waylon but people convinced me that he get laughed at here in the uk (he’s 9 now ) I beg to differ lol. Legend

  14. C.... ....

    Can’t find this on iTunes ☹️

  15. N.... G....

    He awesome 👏

  16. S.... L....

    Corporate WAYLON but still Good music

  17. D.... F....

    These men got it. No one will ever replace them.

  18. M.... O....

    Waylon is the greatest

  19. R.... K....

    Anyone know who the Black guitarist sitting down bending those haunting notes is?

    Is he just in the video or is he on the disc too?

    I can't find any info on him.

    R.... K....

    He's on the CD to

  20. M.... L....

    Bad ass song

  21. L.... M....

    Beautiful Video thank you For sharing😢✨⚡️😊⭐️🙏🌟

  22. J.... M....

    I am in Mesa, AZ for the winter and I'm going back to Mesa Community Cemetery to visit Waylons grave site again and pay my respects. I thought that much for him like he was family!

  23. B.... P....

    Yea been checking Waylon them out they real as can be

  24. F.... R....

    Awesome

  25. J.... E....

    We love and miss you Waylon. We are not sad tho. You live through the music.

  26. M.... K....

    Best Waylon Song!! He was the best!!

  27. n.... h....

    I love the way Waylon subtly infuses some rock into country!

  28. N.... H....

    This is OUTLAW COUNTRY at its best! R.I.P. Waylon..

  29. J.... B....

    PLEASE put this on Apple Music! 🙏🏻

    J.... B....

    We were the wild ones they could never control lol so true

  30. M.... G....

    Too bad radio stations dont play songs like this anymore. Thank God for YouTube at least its here. Good Bye Radio Stations.

  31. C.... R....

    This song is just that damn good. Waylon Jennings=Outlaw Legend. The more I listen to this song the more I love it.

  32. G.... B....

    I love this song wild ones

  33. j.... ....

    God bless

  34. C.... G....

    he looked so cool standing in his black suit, nicely shaped facial hair and the spotlight aimed right at him. great voice.

    C.... G....

    Watch him smile as he's singing about Jesse. I mean that was a priceless smile. I hadn't heard this song in years. This is one of my favorite songs by Waylon. Got that bada** attitude sound.

  35. D.... S....

    Obviously 85 people have no taste in great music

  36. M.... D....

    Pumphouse gang

  37. M.... D....

    Called us the blonde bombers

  38. T.... N....

    YES WE WAS! GOOD HEARTS BODY AND SOUL! GREAT SONG!

  39. L.... S....

    still sends shivers down my body...all time favorite of his..<3

  40. c.... c....

    Great tunes

  41. M.... H....

    the dislikes are mama boys and looser cry babies

  42. R.... R....

    Rock star WHALEN

    R.... R....

    His name is spelled W-A-Y-L-O-N. Just wanted to let you know that.

    R.... R....

    @Joshua Brooks
    Waylon
    Thks

  43. E.... M....

    Not making any more just brilliant

  44. P.... K....

    Never be Another
    The Greatest,.♥

  45. T.... F....

    Waylon was the king!

  46. d.... ....

    100% America. And that`s fucking good.

  47. T.... S....

    If you don't like Waylon Jennings your missing out on life itself

  48. s.... s....

    sure do miss u Waylon

  49. T.... ....

    He sang about real life. Unlike that crap played today

  50. B.... ....

    RIP, Mr. Jennings. Still missed today.

  51. E.... E....

    .. courting disaster with one foot over the liine..
    Hewu! Lyrics

  52. g.... S....

    The ones they couldn’t control made the best music

    g.... S....

    YU' AINT' shittin'

  53. L.... A....

    We love you always waylon your stiil the best you put a last good show god bless you

  54. d.... ....

    Rest in peace Your truely missed :'(

  55. M.... C....

    I miss him he was good for country music he'll be around for a long time

  56. A.... ....

    Oh damn that's badass

  57. A.... K....

    Waylon Jennings was bad to the bone

  58. B.... P....

    Everything person etc has a season now it’s Nas X come up with something better an we might play you

  59. J.... J....

    1:40

    Is that Jessi Colter Waylon's wife.?

    J.... J....

    Sure is. She used to be married to Duane Eddy.

    J.... J....

    @Chaz Gisby

    Ah ok, thanks for the info.

    I thought i recognized her..

  60. G.... O....

    This is one of the best song ever played. Have listening to This sing for 20 years. And never ever get bored.

  61. J.... B....

    Love it takes me back

  62. J.... J....

    Who misses the Outlaw.?

  63. s.... ....

    His voice sure changed towards the end of his career

  64. L.... D....

    Waylon Jennings is an Acquired taste. If you don't like Waylon, acquire some taste.

    L.... D....

    Ken 1706 You know it!

    L.... D....

    @turnipgreen 28 damn. At least you ended up here!

    L.... D....

    Well said. By far the coolest and truest statement on here. 🖒

    L.... D....

    I acquired Jennings music and I've never stopped loving it. Jennings is so under rated it's a crime.

    L.... D....

    🙌🤘

  65. J.... B....

    GoD bless

  66. J.... R....

    Thank god for utube so we can hear really country music

  67. B.... ....

    We were the winners, because we didn't know we could fail! Damn good advice!

  68. J.... B....

    Waylon Jennings is one of only a few musicians that had at least one charting hit in four consecutive decades.

    J.... B....

    He's was also one of the few that could start out a story with " me buddy and Elvis were sitting in this cafe" and not be full of shite

  69. D.... M....

    Love This... You either like Waylon Jennings or you're Wrong!

    D.... M....

    I like Waylon Jennings “Wrong”

  70. C.... R....

    It’s been 21 years since Waylon passed but his music lives on

    C.... R....

    17 years.

    C.... R....

    joe dank my bad thought he died in 98. I must’ve thought of someone else

    C.... R....

    He actually passed in 2001.

    C.... R....

    @Joshua Brooks 2/13/2002

    C.... R....

    @Rose Gosnell 4 days before my nineteenth birthday.

  71. f.... c....

    Nobody can sing it like Waylon, one of the best country singers of all time. R.I.P. Waylon

    f.... c....

    finbar callan i think this was one of his last songs before he died

  72. S.... G....

    My old man was an outlaw, he's holding up St. Peter at the gates right now...go get em Pops....

  73. T.... N....

    He still owes my grandfather 50 bucks. Since the down of time. Lol. Both have past. But our family members still laugh about it. Lil town in Texas called small patch ( little field for you youngsters) right next to Jenny slipper ( mule shoe ) lol. And the other guy you may have heard of from Turkey tx. Bob wells. Only 2 kinds of music ever in our house. Country. And western. Lmao.

  74. G.... M....

    Awesome song! He still had his talent!

  75. D.... H....

    What can I say I still like this song.
    And still listening to it in 2019.
    🤓👍

    D.... H....

    right here with you guys

    D.... H....

    You can count me in 👍

    D.... H....

    Me to friend awesome song

    D.... H....

    1burnman That’s because it’s good tunes! Enough said....

  76. J.... F....

    Waylon is buy far the greatest country singer that ever picked up a microphone. Just like HANK wrote Waylons guitar had that sound

    J.... F....

    Right.?.!.

    Very well said & Agreed

    J.... F....

    @Just AGuy

    & you allso, i totally understand where you're coming from -
    Hank Williams ways the greatest allso way ahead of his time before Waylon Jennings..

    J.... F....

    well, I won't exactly use your words. But he's great, true.
    Don Williams, Marty Robbins, George Jones. Those are my bests

    J.... F....

    Marty Robbins is my favourite

  77. J.... Q....

    the great Waylon

  78. g.... ....

    Too bad the sound engineer disconnected his mike the last 30 secs of song

  79. g.... ....

    Never heard this before...It "floors me" for its awesomeness...1995 huh,,,i was in college then.

    g.... ....

    I saw the video back in the 90s and I was like huh?? That's my dad's fave singer! And then I never saw it again. Some years back I remembered it and started searching for it on here and found it! I love it!!

    g.... ....

    gjmaztr7 i heard this was the same year when Waylon died

  80. N.... ....

    ❤❤❤ 🐸

  81. R.... A....

    My all time favorite. Waylon started my love for music!. Always wish he coulda done a song with the original Lynyrd Skynyrd.. Imagine that!?

  82. W.... W....

    Truly Pure Country Music
    Love you Waylon🌠❤

    W.... W....

    your right about that but hunh you got the ghost dan ce wrong

  83. T.... C....

    I was named after Walyon.. my dads favorite singer..

    T.... C....

    My dad also agrees the greatest of all times

  84. d.... h....

    Bad Ass!!

  85. R.... F....

    I liked this music video of Waylon Jennings this music video the wild one's it came out the year I was born 11/20/1995

    R.... F....

    The wild one's by Waylon Jennings this song is 23 years old

  86. m.... G....

    Back when Country music was country not the hip hop/ rap bull crap it is now

    m.... G....

    @boston bault all the older people I know aren't bitter and besides that they showed respect to others and had manners.

    m.... G....

    @mike Grey wym they dont get offended over everything? Anything that resembles a black culture or anything that isn't completely white offends boomers

    m.... G....

    @boston bault really because all the older people I know get along very well with black people and have never said anything negative about black people

    m.... G....

    @Boss Pimp What jungle language is that shit skin?

    m.... G....

    mike Grey INDEED✌️♥️😃

  87. m.... G....

    How can you not like Waylon

    m.... G....

    AMEN brother

    m.... G....

    I love Waylon. I just wish he wrote more of his songs.

    m.... G....

    Either you like his music or you have no taste, Waylon is the best.

    m.... G....

    @Clay Cameron exactly

  88. J.... P....

    In my book the outlaw lives on , I don't give damn who wants to know Him and the rest of the outlaw made their music for us. So that we can go back to enjoy it you younger generations you don't know what it means to have a gentle giant like Waylon Jennings to look up to,All you younger generations play stupid songs and we can't understand the music your suppose to be singing is nothing but"Hog Wash" it is sickening to other people. I say thank you for letting me listen to the best outlaw his name is Waylon Jennings that's who. Thank you and God Bless to you all at You Tube.

    J.... P....

    Hey juanita I first got acquainted with Waylon back in 1979 when the dukes of hazzard came on TV, I didn't know who he was at the time until my dad told me about him. I didn't know who Buddy Holly was either until I got a cassette tape of his greatest hits one year for Christmas I must have played that tape over and over again at my Grandmother's place in Tipton Indiana. Anyway to make a long story short you were right on when you said that waylon was the best there was and still is. When they said that the day the music died about Buddy Holly not true and so it is the same about Waylon. Waylons music will live on forever. Hey I'm on Facebook under Robert Morrisett so please send me a friends request and I'll confirm it so God Bless and be blessed my wife Kim likes Waylon as well so have a good night

    J.... P....

    Yes I agree thanks Robert m@Robert Morrisett

    J.... P....

    Amen. It's not even country music anymore. Today's country music(or so-called country music) has been sold out to that useless pop/hip hop crap. I am just like you in that today's country music sickens me.

  89. U.... ....

    Legendary

  90. D.... T....

    Waylon should have been the southern president

  91. G.... A....

    Never be another one.

  92. f.... a....

    This is anything but country music, the great Jennings is done.☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️💀💀💀

    f.... a....

    Keith Hunter 🇺🇸

    f.... a....

    Brandon Kraemer 🇺🇸

    f.... a....

    mike Grey yep !

    f.... a....

    @Brandon Kraemer He is remembered for more than outlaw country. I came to his music through Buddy Holly. Waylon was signing onto a record label that Buddy was starting, and was playing Bass for Buddy in 1959. Unfortunately, half way through the tour, a plane Buddy chartered crashed, killing the pilot, Buddy, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. Waylon and the other musians had to complete the tour without 3 of the 4 headliners.

    f.... a....

    @Tom Anthony that's exactly what I was saying. Couldn't be more correct. Very talented singer, song writer, and musician. He lived the outlaw life and his music reflected it but as the song says, "ain't living long like this"

  93. E.... V....

    Waylon kicks ass ! ❤

  94. J.... J....

    Thank you WAYLON, for everything -
    you will allways be the true
    (OUTLAW).....

    J.... J....

    Wild ones

    J.... J....

    Well really he was a spoke person for us

    J.... J....

    @turnipgreen 28

    & a thank you to you allso,
    yes Waylon's words that he wrote for us were quite about people & life as well as poetic & meaningfull..

    But what allways got me about the man was his deep bass voice,
    i he was a powerfull & trully a Phenomenal human being -

    Thanks again to you friend..

    J.... J....

    From marshville

  95. B.... l....

    Still #1. I never was attracted to country music but the jennings family has brought me home to my roots. Thank you waylon, shooter and struggle. Love you guys.

  96. H.... D....

    I seen him with the highwaymen in 1990..just fukn great...atlantas burning down..the Eagle...the greatness never ends

  97. k.... ....

    The one and only Mr.Jennings. the man
    The myth
    The legend.

    k.... ....

    kovaxx1

    Totally Agreed, he was

    (Just A Good O'L Boy)..

    I never had a favorite song by Waylon, but the only one that my Father had taught me the lyrics to & taught me how to play on acoustics was my favorite - Waylon's version of

    My hero's have allways been cowboys

    when i was just 7 yrs old

    Thank you Dad, & all the respects to The Outlaw himself, my they both rest in peace..

    k.... ....

    We were the wild ones thank u waylon for playing for us on all the beer drinking RIP!!!!

    k.... ....

    @Jason Jones 8h vvv9h88g7gcgyggyygygyyg7uggg7gggugg8yvggc7h77c th 7ggg7ggc gygk k0j8huuv7h7v7g88am 8f8j9j8 v 89

    k.... ....

    Waylon Jennings is in replaceable no one else won't fill Waylon Jennings shoes the really part Jessi colter's woke beside of Waylon's lifeless body

  98. C.... T....

    ONE OF BEST💯💯COUNTRY THESE DAYS, AIN'T LIKE IT USED BE💯💯

    C.... T....

    I miss the old singers, fuck Blake Shelton and Keith urban

    C.... T....

    Yea..i agree...i hated country music till i was about 16...a buddy in school turned me on to this outlaw in the 80s...waylon fukn rocks