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These four Willie Nelson songs sound like he wrote them, but they were actually written by someone else instead.

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It's fun to hear Willie Nelson sing such words as "ninja," "fishmonger" and "absinthe," which are among the many pleasures found in the songbook of influential country songwriter Rodney Crowell. "Oh ...