A little Southern Comfort for Monday, with Cletus
I used to be a normal person. Somewhere along the line, though, I met a man from Laramie, Wyoming, a place where people actually wear cowboy boots and hats even when they’re wearing a suit. And their music? Country-western, of course.
Lord, how that once made me wince.
But true love and all that, blah blah. So I started listening to Lyle Lovett. Emmylou Harris. Mary Chapin Carpenter. It wasn’t so bad, really. Did you know Mark Knopfler sometimes sings country? Then I moved to Tennessee. Did you know Mark Knopfler sometimes sings country with Emmylou Harris?
Carrie Underwood is still a bit twee for me, however. But my daughter wanted to share one of her mucus music videos with me this evening — “Jesus take the wheel” — and since I’m currently trying to be a very attentive, caring parent (otherwise they leave the nest forever, you know) I sat down to watch it.
Okay, it’s really sort of sweet, isn’t it?
Well, turns out my sweet little daughter is almost as wicked as I am. She’d really only played the Carrie Underwood video for me so I’d be better able to appreciate the following, which (I must say) is TRULY a work of lyrical Southern genius.
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Bonus treat for those who really don’t want to start the work week quite yet:
Country Western Song Lyric Generator
