Short story as a song. Story about a story. A story about a wino who starts to tell his story about a “Dallas whore” he fell in love with. They never got a chance to be together. And then, through the circumstances of the story, he can’t tell the end. So our troubadour-narrator tells the rest. Love, regret, sadness. A true country classic. All good old country singers were the best storytellers.

First appeared on Old No. 1, RCA Studios, 1975. ‘Let Him Roll’ has been widely covered by artists including such as Johnny Cash and John Townes van Zandt II