The song The Son Of Clayton Delaney is performed by Tom T. Hall in the album named Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher in the year 1995 .
On Fourth Street in Louisville in 1978
Stranded in a honky-tonk, somewhere 'tween dates
There was a little band playin' as I sipped my beer
But I never thought that I'd hear what I'd hear
There was a young man pickin' electric guitar
Smokin' and a snippin', an' a learnin' how to be a star
He had a big blue bandanna tied around his head
A laid-back ba*s and a drummer named Red
Well, his hair was cut long in the fashion of the time
Sandpaper vocal but he milked every line
His fingers like lightnin' on the guitar that he played
He did lay down Sally and Hank didn't do it this way
Well, I sat there and listened for over an hour
And the closest thing to country was a rockin' wildwood flower
And I got that feelin' that I had been there before
But I knew I had never been through that door
Well, the jukebox was turned on and the band took a break
I made my way up front to Howdy and Shake
I said, "Son, I like your music and I kinda like your style"
But it seemed to me that I had seen that smile
While he stood there for a moment
Then he laughed and he slapped his knee
He said, "You are one man I've wanted to see"
He said, "I know you, you story-tellin' son of a gun"
And you know me I'm Clayton Delaneys son
Tom T. Hall - Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher
- Magnificent Music Machine
- A Million Miles To The City
- I Washed My Face In The Morning Dew
- The Hitch-Hiker
- Ballad Of Forty Dollars
- I Hope It Rains At My Funeral
- Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On
- Strawberry Farms
- Watergate Blues
- I Want To See The Parade
- 100 Children
- The Year That Clayton Delaney Died
- The Son Of Clayton Delaney
- The Old Side Of Town
- I Can't Dance
- Last Of The Drifters
- Mama Bake A Pie (Daddy Kill A Chicken)
- A Week In A Country Jail
- Spokane Motel Blues
- Homecoming
- Hello, We're Lonely
- Down At The Mall
- Fox On The Run
- Shoeshine Man
- Flat-Footin' It
- Old Five And Dimers Like Me
- Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me
- More About John Henry
- Give Her My Best
- Pamela Brown
- I Flew Over Our House Last Night
- Molly And Tenbrooks
- The Monkey That Became President
- That's How I Got To Memphis
- Mama's Got The Catfish Blues
- Day Drinkin'
- Salute To A Switchblade
- Margie's At The Lincoln Park Inn
- Subdivision Blues
- America The Ugly
- Hang Them All (Get The Guilty)
- Levi Jones
- Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)
- I'm Forty Now
- Me And Jesus