| Description |
v, 266 pages : illustrations, facsimilies ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- "Who'll buy my memories?" -- Dear America -- "Three days" -- Dear Mama and Daddy -- "Family Bible" -- Dear Sister -- "Healing hands of time" -- Booger Red gets with it -- Dear Abbott -- The Willie hustle -- Dear Zeke -- Booger Red gets going -- Dear Texas -- "Texas" -- To all the young songwriters -- "The songwriters" -- Dear music executive -- "Write your own songs" -- The hungry years -- Dear Trigger -- "Funny how time slips away" -- Dear pocket -- "Night life" -- The red headed stranger -- Dear Paul -- "Me and Paul" -- Yesterday's wine -- "Yesterday's wine" -- A family band -- Dear family band -- Dear audience -- "Angel flying too close to the ground" -- Shotgun Willie -- "Shotgun Willie" -- It's not supposed to be that way -- "It's not supposed to be that way" -- A letter from the road -- My heroes have always been cowboys -- Dear Lord -- "Red headed stranger" -- Back in the saddle again -- Dear Gene Autry -- Dear Will Rogers -- Dear Booger Red -- "Heaven and hell" -- High on a hill -- Dear luck -- "Lady luck" -- Dear readers -- Dear COVID-19 -- "These are difficult times" -- Blue skies -- "December day" -- Dear Roger Miller -- I'd have to be crazy -- To all the girls I've loved before -- "Love just laughed" -- Bad boys and bad girls -- "You don't think I'm funny anymore" -- String of pars -- Dear golf gods -- Thirty-five years of farm aid -- Dear family farmers -- "Heartland" -- The road goes on forever -- "The highwayman" -- Whiskey River -- Dear cannabis -- "Roll me up and smoke me when I die" -- Happy birthday, Woody! -- Marriage is a four-letter word -- "There are worse things than being alone" -- Dear kids -- "Valentine" -- Dear Santa -- "Pretty paper" -- Band of brothers -- Hey Mark -- "We don't run" -- America the beautiful -- Dear founding fathers -- "America the beautiful" -- Dear fourth of July -- "Uncloudy day" -- To my fellow Native Americans -- "A horse called Music" -- Mama, don't let them babies grow up to be presidents -- "Vote 'em out" -- Dear Jimmy Carter -- "Georgia on my mind" -- Dear Mother Earth -- "American tune" -- The power of positive thinking -- The healing powers of music -- "When Willie went up to heaven" -- Live every day -- "Still not dead" -- Dear time -- "Come on time" -- Bring it all home -- Dear Willie Nelson's songbook -- "One more song to write" -- God is a four-letter word -- Dear God -- "In God's eyes" -- To young Booger Red -- "Goin' home" -- Dear road -- "On the road again". |
| Summary |
Willie Nelson writes about his life in the form of letters that also include musings about America. There are also song lyrics to some of his biggest hits. |
| Subject |
Nelson, Willie, 1933-
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Country musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Pipkin, Turk, author.
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| Added Title |
Letters to America |
| ISBN |
9780785241546 (hardcover) |
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078524154X (hardcover) |
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