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Thread #130955 Message #2950825
Posted By: mauvepink
23-Jul-10 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: Review: Merle Haggard legend or laggard?
Subject: RE: Review: Merle Haggard legend or laggard?
"Mama never had the luxuries she wanted
But it wasn't cause my daddy didn't try.
She only wanted things she really needed;
One more reason for my mama's hungry eyes."
meself: I see that as Mama accepting there were things she would have liked to have but knew she never could have. She accepted her lot, in other words, as so many women have in the past, for being with the man she loved and knowing he was trying his best.
To some, too, food for the children can be a luxury. I suspect what folks from a 'poor background' would call a luxury would be very different from richer types.
... I still remember by 'Poppa' buying my 'Mama' a mecahnical wringer for her washing tub when I was a child and being delighted she could now wring the clothes out instead of doing it with her bare hands. She still washed with her hands and a stick to stir the clothes around but she was delighted at having such a help as her wringer.
mp