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New Hillbilly Heaven
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a new twist on the old Tex Ritter classic
texas acoustic traditional western cowboy yodeling ft worth cattle call stockyards
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Honest to God Cowboy Music!
Saddle up with Buck Helton! Im a rootin, tootin, sixgun shootin, yodeling cowhand! (courtesy of Wylie Gustafson) These lyrics describe Buck Helton to a T! Singer, Songwriter, Yodeler extrordinaire, Award winning Cowboy Poet, Author, Columnist, Humorist, Emcee, and Western Actor. Buck brings the music, history and romance of the West to life before your very eyes! Whether you're after historically acurate costumes, and songs of the trail (and the stories behind them) or the golden age of the B-Westerns, with the great tunes from Roy, and Gene, Tex and Rex. Cowboy Poetry for your next gathering, yodels that'll blow the roof right off 'yer bunkhouse, or a great villian or side-kick for your next production, Buck is the one to call!
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Genre
Country • Traditional Country
Charts
Peak #236
Peak in subgenre #19
Author
Lyrics, B.Helton
Rights
lyrics,copyright B.Helton 2005
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February 17, 2006
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MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:04
Story behind the song
Just updating the tune with some new faces, tributes to those who have passed on, and those who I look forward to picking and grinning with for all time.
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I dreamed I was there in hillbilly heaven, oh what a beautiful sight Spoken: Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven. And you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole Lone Ranger himself, Clayton Moore. He said to me, he said Buck; the Big Boss of the riders up here has asked me to kinda show you around. Now, over yonder are a couple of your ole Compadres. My, was I glad to see them, Boxcar Willie and the Light Crust Doughboy’s Smokey Montgomery. Singing: I dreamed I was there in hillbilly heaven, oh what a beautiful sight Spoken: He introduced me to Gene Autry, and he showed me the Hall of Fame with all the gold guitars and fiddles hanging on the walls. Then he said, Buck, step over this way, there are two more folks that I know You’ll want to see, they’re waitin for you. There they were, standin side by side and smilin at me—Johnny Cash and June Carter. Singing: I met all the stars in hillbilly heaven, oh what a star-studded night Spoken: Then I asked him who else do you expect in the next, uh, say a hundred years? He handed me a large book covered with star dust. He called it the Big Tally Book. In it were many names and each name was branded in pure gold. I began to read some of them as I turned the pages: Ranger Doug, Devon Dawson, Janet McBride, Allison Krauss, Don Edwards, Deb Hill, Ricky Skaggs, Waddie Mitchell, Sourdough Slim, Buck”The Big Man” Buck”The Big Man”? Oh, well, that’s when I woke up, and I’m sorry I did, ‘cuz… Singing: I dreamed I was there in hillbilly heaven, oh what a beautiful sight!
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