This Is Wrong! IS Wrong!

[jaywood]

I'm sorry Joanna, but your song fails the elementary test of authentic Country Music in at least three areas:

1) No mention of beer;

2) No evidence the protagonist lives in a trailer; and

3) Not even one reference to a pickup truck!

[rcandrews]

yea but the huband playin the banjo and the boy friend playin the harmonica is priceless

[toots]

Since it's labeled Humor I think Joanna's song is just a riot, despite no pickups, beer or trailer park. Fun

[Boris]

well said RCA and toots! As soon as I saw the "humor" in it, I clicked and laughed. Almost simultaneously, too!

[jaywood]

well said RCA and toots! As soon as I saw the "humor" in it, I clicked and laughed. Almost simultaneously, too!

I never said it didn't pass the humor test (my post apparently didn't). It's a whimsically funny concept, which I enjoyed. In particular, the thought of Joanna's sultry Peggy Lee-like vocal style in this context is priceless.

I thought I might provoke a discussion that explored the various peculiar elements and themes often found in country songs... or not.

[rcandrews]

i didn't take your original post in a negative manner

all tho any tru backwater trailer trash, intestine eatin redneck, would have to agree about the truck part

[Joanna]

I'm glad y'all enjoyed it!

Truth is, if I had to assign it a genre other than humor, I would probably have picked bluegrass, not country. Therefore, instead of beer, I cited applejack as the intoxicant of choice. Unfortunately, there was no room in the song to speak of the boys' pickups, nor to mention that I was singing in a double wide.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

-- Joanna-Bob

[jaywood]

I'm glad y'all enjoyed it!

Truth is, if I had to assign it a genre other than humor, I would probably have picked bluegrass, not country. Therefore, instead of beer, I cited applejack as the intoxicant of choice. Unfortunately, there was no room in the song to speak of the boys' pickups, nor to mention that I was singing in a double wide.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

-- Joanna-Bob

Well alrighty then.

[kilroydegeek]

Hey, y'all know what ya get iff'n ya play a country song backwards?

Ya dawg comes back to life, ya boss gives y'all ya job back 'n' y'all get ya wife or hubby back.

[Joanna]

Lordy, I already has a husband and a boyfriend -- what do I wants with a bunch of dead ex's?

[kilroydegeek]

Lordy, I already has a husband and a boyfriend

Now that's just greedy

[rcandrews]

Lordy, I already has a husband and a boyfriend -- what do I wants with a bunch of dead ex's?