Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie Lyrics






Shotgun Willie sits around in his underwear
Biting on a bullet and pulling out all of his hair
Shotgun Willie's got all of his family there

Well, you can't make a record if you ain't got nothing to say
You can't make a record if you ain't got nothing to say
You can't play music if you don't know nothing to play

Shotgun Willie sits around in his underwear
Biting on a bullet and pulling out all of his hair
Shotgun Willie's got all of his family there

Now, John T. Floores was a-working for the Ku Klux Klan
At six foot five, John T. was a hell of a man
Made a lot of money selling sheets on the family plan

Shotgun Willie sits around in his underwear
Biting on a bullet and pulling out all of his hair
Shotgun Willie's got all of his family there





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  1. C.... L....

    Lord have mercy! WHO is on that lovely bass?

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    More than likely Willie's longtime bass player Dan "Bee" Spears

  2. H.... o....

    Good blunt smoking music

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    I may be 6"5 and a helluva man but sure don't work for the klu Klux klan

  4. M.... B....

    Two shotgun barrels of kickass....

  5. R.... H....

    You're one of the best singers

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    Thank you

  6. S.... U....

    listened to this from my mom and dad listening to it

  7. B.... W....

    shotgun willie walks around in his underwear , tidy whitties probably, biting on a bullet and pulling out all of his hair!

  8. C.... K....

    Jimmy Day on the at wicked dobro

  9. D.... M....

    John T. is my spirit animal. i love sheets too!

  10. A.... ....

    If you've read his bio he explains the concept for this song

  11. E.... C....

    This is when country music went to the dogs.

  12. J.... C....

    I’ve been addicted to this song just for the line “at 6 foot 5 John T was a hell of a man”

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    2 willies

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    Mf racist bruh

  15. B.... W....

    We used to call Dad 'Shotgun Willie' for his habit of sitting in a recliner in his underwear on Sunday afternoons when we were all in the living room with him, watching TV.

  16. F.... C....

    Shotgun Willie sits around in his underwear
    Biting on a bullet and pulling out all of his hair
    Shotgun Willie's got all of his family there

    [Verse 1]
    Well, you can't make a record if you ain't got nothing to say
    You can't make a record if you ain't got nothing to say
    You can't play music if you don't know nothing to play

    Shotgun Willie sits around in his underwear
    Biting on a bullet and pulling out all of his hair
    Shotgun Willie's got all of his family there

    {Bridge}

    [Verse 2]
    Now, John T. Floores was a-working for the Ku Klux Klan
    At six foot five, John T. was a hell of a man
    Made a lot of money selling sheets on the family plan

    Shotgun Willie sits around in his underwear
    Biting on a bullet and pulling out all of his hair
    Shotgun Willie's got all of his family there

  17. N.... M....

    Screw Johnny Bush, am I right

  18. P.... O....

    It was 1972 in Ketchikan, Alaska. Recently off the boat. I went to the local music store.
    This album was there. Buy one get one free. I got this one free.

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    Peter Oleson what’d you buy?

  19. C.... C....

    I'm 12 my dad showed me this song

  20. B.... K....

    Selling sheets, refers to sheets of LSD before it was illegal.

  21. S.... ....

    Strange... This one is not scratched.

  22. S.... L....

    See You In Another Life Brother!

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    Willie ain't fukn dead.

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    WTF LMAO

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    @Antonius Milesdale it's a "Lost" reference, that forgotten tv show.

  23. S.... B....

    Bluesy!

  24. A.... M....

    All the deplorable Trump supporters, this is you. I'm sure you're so proud of it... GROSS

  25. M.... S....

    What kind of guitar is on that solo?

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    SLOW RIDE1967 1950's Nylon String Classical Acoustic.

  26. L.... F....

    Is he singing about himself

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    Lance Frizzell no

    L.... F....

    Yes he is. There is a story to this.

  27. L.... F....

    Great to say the least

  28. H.... f....

    Hey molly, why are you listening to Shotgun Willie anyway????? 🕺🏿

  29. c.... S....

    my favorite Willie song,)

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    Got so many though

  30. M.... ....

    0:29 "You can't make record if ya..You can't make record if ya..You can't make record if ya"

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    I was looking for a comment like that 😂. I got the reference, I knew this song on Lost, 5th season, first ep.

  31. j.... J....

    Shotgun clify

  32. G.... ....

    37 People paid full price for their sheets.

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    Of what

  33. D.... W....

    Love the Tone the family The Plan The Over the floor Span dancing When we can

  34. G.... L....

    Shotgun Willie shits in his underwear,
    Bitin' on your face,
    And pullin' out all of his pubic hair.

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    Gavin Lane isn’t that the real version?

  35. B.... ....

    Ad the Memphis Horns, and away we go! Jay

  36. C.... R....

    accident but still lethal chicken wing

  37. A.... ....

    does Progressive Insurance know Shotgun Willie sells sheets on the family plan?  LOL!!!!!!

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    john T. sells teh sheets

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    @Darth Musturd sheets of what

  38. B.... W....

    record skips... :p
    #Lost

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    Bethany Wheeler yes lol

  39. D.... S....

    Comment honk :0) lol if you like undertale. Emmy village

  40. w.... l....

    I'm a Willie

  41. W.... P....

    Miles baby haha

  42. L.... ....

    I was vibin with him until he brought up the Klan

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    Levels2this fuck you levels

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    Levels2this the kkk part ruined it for you? if so, its not for you.

  43. T.... S....

    Lost me trouxe aqui!!!

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    Seu safadinho. Hihihihihi

  44. R.... ....

    this is like jazzy and bluezy with county Wille is still awesome still kickin seen him last year

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    4 8 15 16 23 42

  46. M.... A....

    Lost S5 : The baby laugh is missing :)

  47. A.... ....

    go Willie go !!

  48. m.... R....

    Diversity Means Chasing Down the Last White Person

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    @Night Patrol Very true.

    m.... R....

    +molly Ring gl w that

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    +molly Ring It does if that white person, is someone who perpetuates the system of fascist oppression. As John Sinclair of the White Panther Party and the Rainbow People's Party roughly said, the Revolution will not be nice, you need to line the fascists up against the wall, and spray them down. All Power to the People.

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    molly Ring this is not the video kid.

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    molly Ring
    lol nigga what.jpg

  49. R.... A....

    Best Willie song

  50. S.... ....

    The lack of 'how to play' videos for this song on the internet is very disappointing.

  51. F.... H....

    This song is funny as fuck but actually really good

  52. T.... ....

    Marvin Candle LOST LOST 

  53. s.... ....

    lost s5e1

  54. O.... C....

    Got introduced to this song in outlaw country xm.

  55. O.... C....

    "You cant play music if you don't know nothin to play".

  56. J.... B....

    what kind of crap is this?

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    Real Country!

    J.... B....

    its what you call GOOD music PURE talent......now fuck off! :) 

  57. R.... C....

    Nothing like firing up a doob to this. :)

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    lmfaooooo that has to be a joke....

    R.... C....

    U can say that sit back relax With a dooby . Listen to some of outlaw COUNTRY music. Can't beat that

    R.... C....

    what the fuck is someone who is against weed doing listening to willie nelson?

    R.... C....

    Tom Jackson willie Nelson is a big smoker

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    @Tom Jackson

    "I think people need to be educated that Marijuana is not a drug, Marijuana is an Herb and a Flower and if God put it here to grow, what gives the government the right to say God is wrong?" -Willie Nelson

  58. D.... ....

    but you can't make a record if you can't make a record if you can't make a record if you can't make a record if you can't make a record

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    Dr Chang :D

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    I was looking for a comment like that 😂. I got the reference, I knew this song on Lost, 5th season, first ep.

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    thousands of fans don't need a record so fuck the record

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    I don't need a script

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    @MrJohnKellogg lol, the outlaws make great lullaby's

  59. W.... G....

    Pierre chang loved this one

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    Edgar Halliwax too xD

  60. M.... F....

    "You can't make record if ya ain't got nothin' to say"

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

    Is luv to do this at karaoke but it's kind of risky lmao yikes

  62. K.... M....

    Amen Happydonkey.

  63. J.... ....

    Here is the meaning to the title to this song as posted on the Willie Nelson website.
    Willie has been described as a man of wisdom and a peacemaker, but he wasn’t always the gentle soul that many now know him as. Nicknamed ‘Shotgun Willie’ for the shootout that happened when he heard his daughter Lana was being physically assaulted by her husband Steve.

    “I ran for my truck and drove to the place where Steve and Lana lived and slapped Steve around,” Willie recalls. “He really pissed me off. I told him if he ever laid a hand on Lana again, I would come back and drown his ass. No sooner did I get back to Ridgetop (his home property) than here came Steve in his car, shooting at the house with a .22 rifle. I was standing in the door of the barn and a bullet tore up the wood two feet from my head. I grabbed an M-1 rifle and shot at Steve’s car. Steve made one pass and took off.”

    Willie then returned to Steve and Lana’s to find Steve had left and kidnapped their young son Nelson Ray. Lana told Willie that Steve was looking to ‘get rid of him.’ So Willie drove back to Ridgetop and waited.

    “Thinking Steve would come to Ridgetop to pick me off about dusk, I hid in the truck so he couldn't tell if I was home. We laid a trap for him. I had my M-1 and a shotgun. He drove by the house, and I ran out the garage door. Steve saw me and took off. That’s when I shot his car and shot out his tire. Steve called the cops on me. Instead of explaining the whole damn mess, the beatings and the semi-kidnapping and shooting and all, I told the officers he must have run over the bullet. The police didn't want to get involved in hillbilly family fights. They wrote down what I told them on their report and took off.”

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    Lethal Chicken wing

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    JCB what a badass

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    Willie and the outlaws were/are epic. new country blows

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    That's most excellent info here I am again

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    That's a great story. However, not true. Willie Nelson wrote this song in 1973 and his daughter was 4 at the time. H is daughter was briefly married in the mid-2000s. I can believe that he would defend his daughter with everything possible-but it couldn't be the reason for the song title. It is still a great song and obviously still being discussed today.

  64. D.... F....

    This was my favorite song since I was 6 now in 12 and no change

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    Donny Fling yeah. Willies great too. 5 years later and you’re still 12. (Joke)

  65. H.... ....

    Replying to regdar; kkk?, john?, selling sheets? Family plan? Underwear? No, i dont buy that fake propogated red herring of a t-shirt description sales pitch. If you listened to John Todd already you would understand there is a such thing as witch language in which An initiated witch has to learn hundreds of words and memorize the alternate and cryptic meanings. Also according to John Todd every single musical artist almost had to be an initiated witch to even get signed! Almost every song that you hear on the radio today has got agenda, hidden meanings and/or satanic blessing contained therein. Elton John for example claimed to have never have written a song that was not in witches language. What you don't get is that the entire music industry is a tool of the Illuminati who is controlled by Satan for his agenda for the world. That includes Hollywood/movie industry and unlike the early days of video games, you know, Pacman, joust, Donkey Kong.... So is the video game industry, in fact there was a game I believe recently called Illuminati. Also look at the halflife series, fallout series, americas army,etc. And of course there are countless books. Yes, everything we thought we knew is wrong practically and the world is not safe and good. It is eaten up with Masons who serve the devil under Illuminati many of which don't even realize what they're doing because often times they are brought in because they are naive and gullible followers who are easy to control and manipulate. Thank God Jesus returns soon to end their death grip on the world!

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    @Robert B never said john todd was mentioned in the song, i said the songs lyrics are in witches language. nor am i dismissing that the song was partly about john t floores. rather, john todd was right about the cryptic double meanings in most songs.

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    Elton John didn't write any lyrics, so you're already mistaken there

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    Man u ether need to get back on your meds or get off them one i don't know which

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    People like this get on here to hate it a song people

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    Preach on brother. Hail Jesus

  66. D.... H....

    Lost, season 5 opener. 

  67. M.... ....

    This song makes no sense........ and it's great anyway. 

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    oh it probably makes plenty of sense in witch language. look up john todd on youtube. ex-illuminatist and ex-witch.

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    http://shop.willienelson.com/index.php/apparel/shotgun-willie-ringer-t-shirt.html Read the story in the t-shirt description, this song'll make a little more sense to you :P

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    Willie had a shoot out with some people because they abused his daughter Lana, therefore he got the nickname "Shotgun Willie" and gave him the idea for the lyrics.

  68. B.... ....

    can't make a record if you aint got nothing to say!

  69. L.... ....

    If you can't play the record If you can't play the record If you can't play the record If you can't play the record If you can't play the record If you can't play the record If you can't play the record

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    It Sounded Like When I Was Little Back When I Was Riding A Horse. :)

  71. j.... ....

    I see what you did there and I like it! Good references my friend;D

  72. K.... G....

    When I'm done growing my dental floss up here in Montana, I'm gonna head on down to the south and sell sheets to the KKK. Seems like some good business.

  73. T.... R....

    i hate commercials too

  74. h.... ....

    I hate commercials. Especially Zoosk commercials.

  75. a.... ....

    I have a lot to say: I wanna have a record done.

  76. R.... C....

    Fun song to light one up to while you and Willie pass around the pipe.

  77. w.... ....

    Great song after a hards day work with a cold beer in your hand

  78. f.... ....

    now i understand

  79. L.... ....

    maybe its cuz no one i know listens to this stuff dumb fuck.

  80. s.... ....

    I'm who gives a shit years old and don't give a shit how old you are. Shut up and listen to the music.

  81. C.... B....

    ok, do you want some kind of medal?

  82. L.... ....

    im 17 and i like old country songs. iv never seen an episode of lost to prove it.

  83. S.... ....

    The other night I had a dream that Willie and I were best friends and we had the law after us. The whole time we were running we were laughing and just having a hell of a time. Ever since that dream I want nothing more than the chance to meet Willie so we can do exactly what happend in that dream...

  84. A.... .....

    no, i'm here because i enjoy good music.

  85. r.... ....

    you can't make a reccord if....you can't make a reccord if....you can't make a reccord if....you can't make a reccord if....you can't make a reccord if....you can't make a reccord if....you can't make a reccord if....

  86. w.... ....

    Badass song, nothing beats old school, outlaw country. Wish that the shit they call "pop country" could be as good as this so I wouldn't have to feel like putting a double barrel 12 gauge in my mouth every time I here Kenny Chesney or Keith Urban or all those other pop country douchebags.

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    like if you are here because of LOST?

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  89. b.... b....

    grew up hearing willie ... this is one of my favorites.. great song!!

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    He has so many good 1s, like Waylon and Merle too, I've not heard lot Ellie's in upbeat tempo like this 1 though

  90. S.... ....

    We played this song at my Uncle's funeral R.I.P. Uncle Allen he servered hin vietnam

  91. H.... ....

    this song is funk, blues and country all rolled into one big fat one! can i get an amen for the attitude

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    @MrGuitarman187 I think it is just that: a nonsequitor (sp?), and it pokes fun because it is dismissive or maybe trivializing. To intellectualize the joke kind of kills it I guess! Selling sheets on the family plan... and we laugh when we hear it. I think that is very political! I have always appreciated the intellectual side of Willie, Merle, T.T. Hall and others. Glad to have the company of you and others!

  93. M.... ....

    the kkk part is so random in the song...like why are those lyrics even in the song. Its not even a political statement or goes with the theme of the song. Its just an observation and a short one lol but great song.

  94. e.... ....

    froGGer...

  95. C.... H....

    @WaldronicTomotron tru that pierre chang 28 is where it skips in lost

  96. C.... H....

    @WaldronicTomotron tru that
    pierre chang

  97. D.... F....

    One of the best songs in the world. I have seen it performed by Willie more times than I can remember! I'm TRUE TEXAN! If Willie wanted he could live it Rick Perry's New Castle! Id vote for him!