Willie Nelson’s final songs

At 92, Nelson can still play and sing, his choices made him — and us — think about what is next.

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Willie Nelson ended a 45-minute set at his 10th Annual Outlaw Music Festival Saturday night at SPAC with three poignant tunes. It was a night of hits for the 92 year-old entertainer, who led the way for him and his band. The set included his own songs and some by others: “On the Road Again,” “Always on My Mind,” “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” “Georgia,” “Move It on Over,” and “Me and Bobby McGee.”

But it was the last three songs that seemed to put a little smoke in his eyes.

He sang “Last Leaf on the Tree,” a song he released last year, a metaphorical piece about the last leaf on the tree that holds tight through the autumn and winter.

It includes the lyric:

I fight off the snow, I fight off the hail

Nothing makes me go, I'm like some vestigial tail

I'll be here through eternity, if you wanna know how long

If they cut down this tree, I'll show up in a song

He followed that with “Roll Me Up,” a ditty that has some fun with his reputation of smoking a lot of cannabis in his life. (He wore a T-shirt that said, “Smoke Weed Every Day.”) The refrain is “Roll me up and smoke me when I die.”