Highwaymen - If He Came Back Again lyrics

IF HE CAME BACK AGAIN

Written by: Craig Bickhardt & Barry Alfonso

Performed by: The Highwaymen (Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash & Kris Kristofferson)

Appears on: The Road Goes on Forever (10th Anniversary Edition)-2005.

[Jennings:]

You'd've thought a king had died,

The way those people cried,

Instead of one more broken entertainer.

[Kristofferson:]

It struck those in his trade,

He could-a had it made,

If he'd only been a little saner.

[Jennings:]

They traveled far to see him.

Oh, the humble and the high.

They said goodbye as if he were a friend.

[All:]

Now somewhere he is smilin',

On those who idolize him.

But would they not recognize him,

If he came back again?

[Nelson:]

He was born of modest means,

And had outrageous dreams.

They never let him rest till he fullfilled them.

[Cash:]

While he rode that train of song,

His devils tagged along.

The whiskey and the pills just couldn't kill him.

[Nelson:]

He didn't mean to be a rebel.

[Cash:]

No the real ones never do.

[Nelson:]

They are born apart from ordinary men.

[All:]

And somewhere he is smilin',

On those who sanctify him.

But would they not recognize him,

If he came back again?

[Jennings:]

But it's an old, familiar story.

[Kristofferson:]

But it's a damn shame nonetheless.

[Nelson:]

They don't forgive his kind,

[Cash:]

Until they lay them down to rest.

[All:]

And somewhere he is smilin',

On those who idolize him.

But would they not recognize him,

If he came back again?

If he came back again?

[Cash attempts to sing the last line again and that seems to be wrong and very funny to everyone.]

[Thanks to Briana Carson for lyrics]