Embo, do you have the copyright date for the song? If it was written near the centennial of Lincoln's death, given the context of Southern attitudes of the time I think that interpretation of a Mississippi good-old-boy's mental processes is a bit of a stretch. I know that Junior was associated with Waylon (not the heron) and Willie and Kris in his musical esthetic and his avoidance of hairspray and sequins, but was he enough of an outlaw to have rejected the states-rights (read anti-civil rights) politics of his home region?

And whatever his intentions in writing the song, poetically, it's still representative of the shallow end of his father's gene pool.

--seed