Joey Alcorn - 50 Years Too Late E Well I never met Ernest Tubb A I never shook Roy Acuffs hand B7 I never got to hear Hank Williams play A E With the Drifting Cowboys Band E I never got to hear Webb Pierce sing A On WSM B7 And I don't like it but I guess its fate B7 E I was born Fifty Years Too Late I never got to hear Faron Young I never met Ms. Patsy Cline I never got to hear Johnny Cash Sing I Walk The Line I never got to go to the Opry On a Saturday at the Ryman And I don't like it but I guess its fate I was born Fifty Years Too Late Steel solo I never got to laugh at Minnie Pearl Or hear the Carter Family I never got to go to a Hank Snow show Or the Midnight Jamboree I never got to hear Lefty Frizzell Sing I Love You A Thousand Ways And I don't like it but I guess its fate I was born Fifty Years Too Late And Ill never get to meet them Cause they're all dead and gone But I feel like its my place to Pick up and carry on With the kind of country music That they left behind And it might turn out that it was fate I was born Fifty Years Too Late Joey Alcorn - 50 Years Too Late E Well I never met Ernest Tubb A I never shook Roy Acuffs hand B7 I never got to hear Hank Williams play A E
With the Drifting Cowboys Band E I never got to hear Webb Pierce sing A On WSM B7 And I don't like it but I guess its fate B7 E I was born Fifty Years Too Late I never got to hear Faron Young I never met Ms. Patsy Cline I never got to hear Johnny Cash Sing I Walk The Line I never got to go to the Opry On a Saturday at the Ryman And I don't like it but I guess its fate I was born Fifty Years Too Late Steel solo I never got to laugh at Minnie Pearl Or hear the Carter Family I never got to go to a Hank Snow show Or the Midnight Jamboree I never got to hear Lefty Frizzell Sing I Love You A Thousand Ways And I don't like it but I guess its fate I was born Fifty Years Too Late And Ill never get to meet them Cause they're all dead and gone But I feel like its my place to Pick up and carry on With the kind of country music That they left behind And it might turn out that it was fate I was born Fifty Years Too Late