{"id":76,"date":"2021-05-10T01:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=76"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:46:33","slug":"all-my-rowdy-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"All my Rowdy Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Hank Williams Jr. &#8211; Key of A\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea79b5200494007223146' value='69ea79b5200494007223146'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea79b5200494007223146' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea79b5200494007223146' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea79b5200494007223146' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea79b5200494007223146' ><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down) is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Hank Williams Jr.. It was released in September 1981 as the first single from the album The Pressure Is On. The song was Williams Jr.&#8217;s fifth number one on the country chart.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>[Verse 1] - - - <\/strong><strong>[C] All my rowdy [G] friends have settled [C] down, and [F] they seem to be more [G] into laid back [C] songs.\u00a0 [G] Nobody wants to get drunk and get loud.\u00a0 Everybody just wants to go back [C] home<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>[C] I myself have [G] seen my wilder [C] days.\u00a0 And [F] I have seen my [G] name at the top of the [C] page.\u00a0 But I [F] need to find a [G] friend just to run [C] around.\u00a0 But [F] nobody wants to get [C] high on the [Dm] town; And [F] all my rowdy [G] friends have settled [C]\u00a0 down<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[Chorus 1] - - - <\/strong><strong>And I [F] think I know what my [G] father meant when he [C] sang about a lost highway.\u00a0 And [F] old George Jones I'm [G] glad to see is [C] finally getting straight; and [F] Waylon's staying [G]\u00a0 home and loving [C] Jessi more these\u00a0 days. [F Em Dm] - - - But [F] nobody wants to get [C] drunk and get [Dm] loud; And [F] all my rowdy [G] friends have settled [C]\u00a0 down<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>[Verse 2] - - - <\/strong><strong>And the [F] hangovers [G] hurt more then they [C] used to.\u00a0 And [F] cornbread and [G] ice tea took the [C] place of 90 proof;\u00a0 And it [F] seems like none of us [G] do things quite [C] like we [F Em Dm] used to do. [F] Nobody wants to get [Em] high on the [Dm] town; And [F] all my rowdy [G] friends have settled [C]\u00a0 down<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>[Chorus 2] - - - - <\/strong><strong>Yeah I [F] think I know what my [G] father meant when he [C] sang about a lost highway.\u00a0\u00a0 And [F] Johnny Cash don't [G] act like he did [C] back in '68.\u00a0 And [F] Kris he is a [G] movie star and he's [C] moved off to. [F Em Dm] L.A.\r\n<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<strong>And [F] nobody wants to get [C] drunk and get [Dm] loud; - - - - - [F] nobody wants to get [C] high on the [Dm] town; - - - - - And [F] all my rowdy [G] friends have settled [C]\u00a0 down. - - - - - Yeah [F] me and my rowdy [G] friends done rowdied on [C] down\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>[ C G C ]<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Hank Williams Jr. &#8211; Key of A\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; [Verse 1] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [C] All my rowdy [G] friends have settled [C] down, and [F] they seem to be more [G] into laid back [C] songs.\u00a0 [G] Nobody wants to get drunk and get loud.\u00a0 Everybody just wants to &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All my Rowdy Friends<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,133,56,221,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-country-western","category-hank-williams","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29886,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/29886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}