The Facts of Life: and Other Dirty Jokes

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Random House Publishing Group, Apr 8, 2003 - Biography & Autobiography - 256 pages
If you had to give America a voice, it’s been said more than once, that voice would be Willie Nelson’s. For more than fifty years, he’s taken the stuff of his life—the good and the bad—and made from it a body of work that has become a permanent part of our musical heritage and kept us company through the good and the bad of our own lives. So it’s fitting, and cause for celebration, that he has finally set down in his own words a book that does justice to his great gifts as a storyteller. In The Facts of Life, Willie Nelson reflects on what has mattered to him in life and what hasn’t. He also tells some great dirty jokes. The result is a book as wise and hilarious as its author.

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
4
Section 3
19
Section 4
48
Section 5
73
Section 6
77
Section 7
83
Section 8
95
Section 13
136
Section 14
137
Section 15
142
Section 16
150
Section 17
168
Section 18
184
Section 19
200
Section 20
213

Section 9
97
Section 10
99
Section 11
126
Section 12
129
Section 21
226
Section 22
227
Section 23
231
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About the author (2003)

Born in Abbott, Texas, on April 29, 1933, Willie Nelson is one of the most popular, prolific, and influential songwriters and singers in the history of American music. He has been inducted into a number of music halls of fame, was named a Kennedy Center honoree in 1998, and was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. He has recorded more than one hundred albums over six decades. In January 2002, Lost Highway Records will release his first major album of all-new material in five years, The Great Divide.

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