Country music motto

Subject: Country music motto
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 14 Apr 20 - 06:37 PM

Leave me or I'll find someone who will !!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: GUEST,Jerome Clark
Date: 15 Apr 20 - 08:20 PM

All those exclamation points give me a headache.

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: Tony Rees
Date: 15 Apr 20 - 08:49 PM

I thought country music was "Three chords and the truth"...

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: GUEST,Jerome Clark
Date: 15 Apr 20 - 08:52 PM

No, actually, "Three chords, the truth, and a whole lot of exclamation points to beat your head with in case you didn't get the point."

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 06:02 AM

"Country music motto"
How about, "Bend over hoss - I've got something for y'all"
Sorry, couldn't resist (bet the cowboy said that too)
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: DonMeixner
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 08:11 AM

An old truck, an old farm, and Martin D-45 with a huge pick guard and butterbean tuners.

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 09:27 AM

"I like both kinds of music, Country and Western."

"Squeal like a piggy."

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 09:29 AM

That was me without cookie.

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: cnd
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 09:32 AM

I think now is a fitting time to bring up David Allan Coe's You Never Even Called Me By My Name. The final chorus of the song runs through about every popular theme in country songs.

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 09:49 AM

There is this iconic verse from the great Merle Haggard's "Okie From Muskogee:

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee
We don't take our trips on LSD
We don't our burn draft cards down on Main Street
'Cause we like living right and being free

but I prefer the Youngblood's reworking of it:

We might smoke marijuana if we want to
Now and then a trip on LSD
We still burn Old Glory down at the White House
'Cause we like living right and being free

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 10:22 AM

I do lots of exclamation marks because I can, I really do and I mean that most sincerely!!

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 10:22 AM

There are no strangers, just friends you don't recognise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 10:51 AM

How's the Mrs, Bonzo?

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 11:44 AM

The song referenced above by David Allen Coe was actually written by Steve Goodman one of the great writers who sadly died young.

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: cnd
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 12:20 PM

Correct indeed Hootenanny, Coe mentions that in the song before launching into the last stanza. In a funny twist of fate and timing, Goodman wrote the song with the help of John Prine. Prine also helped write it but thought country listeners would find it offensive and asked not to be mentioned.

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: GUEST,Modette
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 01:54 PM

I've said this before, but the Bonzo creature buys his exclamation marks wholesale.

Here's one for him Asshole from El Paso, courtesy of my brother Pádraig.

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: voyager
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 08:25 PM

The Last Word in Lonesome is Me

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: Tony Rees
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 10:35 PM

And the first word in "country" is...

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: Tony Rees
Date: 16 Apr 20 - 10:36 PM

(sorry, I should probably not have said that)

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Apr 20 - 10:04 PM

In my country, country music was music.

Subject: RE: Country music motto
From: GUEST,Exclamation Points Like Cats
Date: 17 Apr 20 - 10:06 PM

More than two and you definitely crazy.