Almostgotit.com » Cletus take the wheel http://www.almostgotit.com So, kids are mostly raised & I've just gone back to work... Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:59:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 A little Southern Comfort for Monday, with Cletus http://www.almostgotit.com/2008/08/25/a-little-southern-comfort-for-monday-with-cletus/ http://www.almostgotit.com/2008/08/25/a-little-southern-comfort-for-monday-with-cletus/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:17:42 +0000 almostgotit http://www.almostgotit.com/2008/08/25/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.

——-
Bonus treat for those who really don’t want to start the work week quite yet:
Country Western Song Lyric Generator

]]> http://www.almostgotit.com/2008/08/25/a-little-southern-comfort-for-monday-with-cletus/feed/ 11