The song was inspired by Nelson's grandmother who read from the Bible and would often sing the Christian hymn "Rock of Ages" after dinner.

Willie had multiple suicide attempts in his drinking days In the '60s ... Nelson Recounts Past Suicide Attempt — and How Friend Paul English Supported Him After — in New Memoir In the early ...

Johnny Tillotson, the Grammy-nominated former teen idol whose work was covered by the likes of Elvis Presley and Willie Nelson ... was able to parlay that early success into a decades-long ...