"I said: Self, you'll ruin your health/They say alcohol will cook the brain."

"I answered me: That well may be/But you know it sure works good to kill the pain..."




"Thomas Paul 'Tompall' Glaser — a staunchly independent singer, songwriter, studio owner, publisher and recording artist and a central figure in country music's much-vaunted 'Outlaw Movement' of the 1970s — died Tuesday at his Nashville home after a long illness.... Glaser was an unabashed rebel in a company town...."