This ain't Montgomery and it ain't 1949 It's a very different world, and a differnet time So I'm gonna do things the best way that I know how Cause this ain't Montgomery and I ain't Hank Williams no how People will give you what they think is real good advice Listen to me son and you can make music your life They just don't understand we can't do things like they did back then Cause so much has changed it will never be that way again And this ain't Montgomery, and it ain't 1952 And if old Hank were here i bet he'd be a lot different too So I'm gonna do things the best way that I know how Cause this ain't Montgomery and I ain't Hank Williams no how
(instrumental break) This ain't Montgomery and it ain't 1953 The music is gone now but its gonna come back you'll see Hank Williams is dead and he ain't coming back here again I don't know where the music is going... But I know where it's been