Luckily, once I'd actually played this one for my buddy, he stopped me about halfway into it and said, "Aw, I'm sorry you went to the trouble to learn this one. It's really awful! We can forget it." (Hell, it only took 5 minutes to learn, I told him)

He said he had only heard it in passing and fastened on the line "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses" and, since the place we are playing has a lot of horses, he thought it might go over well. That was before he'd heard the rest of it. I agree it was a good hook line... I guess Toby Keith had heard it years ago and filed it away for future use. I'm just sorry he threw it away on this piece of kife song. It was the title that hooked Willie into recording it with TK, he admitted. If you listen to the song, it sounds like Willie gave him the one take in the studio he'd promised then walked away (the performance and synching up of their vocals is pretty lousy overall). Once he heard the rest of it, I bet he regretted agreeing to it.

So now I can try and put it out of my mind, I hope.