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The song was written by Billy Joe Shaver and Waylon Jennings, who first recorded it on his 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes. That version charted for fifteen weeks on the Billboard country singles charts, peaking at number eight. Elvis Presley's rendition appeared on his 1975 album Promised Land as the closing track, having been recorded in December 1973 at Stax Records in Memphis. An alternate arrangement later appeared on the posthumous 1981 album Guitar Man.
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