If You Have The Courage

You Know, In The Days When I Started, If You Had Chet Atkins' Name On Your Record As A Producer And It Was On Rca, You Could Work The Road. It Didn't Have To Be A Big Hit Record, It Just Had To Have That On It.

The Rock And Roll Spirit. I Learned A Lot Of That Because I Worked With Buddy Holly. I Played Bass With Him, And He Taught Me A Lot About That.

Now, I Don't Know How They Judge All That, But If Anybody In The World Deserves To Be In The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens Does.

We Did An Album One Time Called White Mansions, About The Civil War, But It Was Written By A Guy From England. His Looking At It From Over There And It Not Being A Part Of His History Made It So He Could Be Objective.

Besides That, I Felt Guilty. I Thought For Some Reason... I Was Alive, And Buddy And Those Boys Were Dead, And I Didn't Know How, But Somehow I'd Caused It.