Shooting Stars - Jack Ingram

This guy walked into a bar one night

Said his name was Waylon Payne

Had an Elvis kind of swagger

Just a guitar to his name

He was rough around the edges

But he sang just like a bird

So we wrote some songs in Hollywood

And made a record no one heard

Turn em up and dim the lights

Hes gonna take us for a ride down memory lane tonight

Y’all get your whiskeys and raise em high

Here’s to every shooting star that never got to shine

Its guys like Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark

They never really made it big but they sure left a mark

With those poetry laced melodies, on all of us

God bless the boys from Texas for sticking to their guns

Turn em up, dim the lights

They’re gonna take us for a ride down memory lane tonight

Y’all get your whiskeys and raise em high

Here’s to every shooting star that never got to shine

There was a time I thought I was born to burn so bright

Maybe I was, maybe in another life

All I know is this old road ain’t always as it seems

One wrong turn might take you right to where you’re supposed to be

Turn em up and dim the lights

Hes gonna take us for a ride down memory lane tonight

Y’all get your whiskeys and raise em high

Here’s to every shooting star that never got to shine

Turn em up and dim the lights

Hes gonna take us for a ride down memory lane tonight

Y’all get your whiskeys and raise em high

Here’s to every shooting star that never got to shine