Roy Clark performs "Drivin' Nails In My Coffin" on Hee Haw 1987.

Roy Clark performs "Drivin' Nails In My Coffin" on Hee Haw 1987.

Roy Linwood Clark (born April 15, 1933) is an American singer and musician. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Roy Clark has been an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and helping to popularize the genre.

During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark is highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist and banjo player, and is also skilled on classical guitar and several other instruments. Although he has had hit songs as a pop vocalist (e.g., "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), his instrumental skill has had an enormous effect on generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1987 and, in 2009, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Ernest Tubb Drivin' Nails In My Coffin Lyrics

My sweetheart has gone 

And I'm so lonely 

She said that she and I were through

So I started out drinkin' for past time 

Drivin' nails in my coffin over you

I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin 

Everytime I drink a bottle of booze

I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin, Lord 

I'm drivin' those nails over you

Now ever since the day 

That we've parted 

I've been so sad and so blue

I'm always thinking of you love 

And I just can't quit 

Drinking that old booze

I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin

Now you've turned me down 

You don't want me 

There's nothing now I can lose

I'm just drivin' those nails in my coffin 

And worryin' my darlin' over you

I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin