I dreamed I was there in hillbilly heaven
Oh, what a beautiful sight
And I met all the stars in hillbilly heaven
Oh, what a star-spangled night
Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven
Just as I arrived, the old curtain lifted
And there on stage stood who else but Roy Acuff and Tex Ritter
They said, "Well, how you doing? Come on in here
I know there's some folks you wanna see
Over there's our newest member, your old friend Conway Twitty
Say hello, darling
And there's Gentleman Jim Reeves singing with heaven's choir
Roger Miller, he just got here, he's making everybody laugh
Of course you know Roy Orbison can sing just as high as anybody here
And Ernest Tubb can sing as low
And Patsy Cline, well, bet she's the best singing angel here
And Dottie West is probably the prettiest
There's the old pea picker Ernie Ford, Jimmie Rodgers, George Morgan
Hank Williams and the wondering boy Webb Pierce
The old honky tonker himself Lefty Frizzell
My goodness, what a group
And would you just listen to Mother Maybelle over there
Picking the Wildwood Flower with the angel band
You know, I personally think she's just about God's favorite
And Marty Robbins, well, he's still getting more encores
Than anybody else up here just like he used to down on Earth
Yeah, well, there's Elvis, they still call him the King
But we know they're not talking about the real King up here
I dreamed I was there in hillbilly heaven
Oh, what a star-studded night
Then I asked Roy and Tex, I said
"Well, who do you think might be showing up
Say within the next forty, fifty, sixty years?"
They handed me a big tally book and in it I saw names
Like Johnny Cash, George Jones, Merle Haggard
Don Gibson, Mel Tillis, Faron Young, Kitty Wells
Some of the newer ones like Vince Gill and Garth Brooks
Of course they talked about Minnie Pearl, the Judge
Tanya Tucker, Reba McEntire, Hank Jr
Oh, of course Buck Owens, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry
Randy Travis and Willie Nelson, there's old Chet
I said, "Well, where's Porter Wagoner's name?"
Oh, there it is
And then there was Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton
That's when I woke up
I dreamed I was there in hillbilly heaven
Oh, what a beautiful sight
And I met all the stars in hillbilly heaven
Oh, what a star-spangled night
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