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Offline Sabre

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The ultimate country song...
« on: January 09, 2007, 01:01:33 PM »
Well, I just finished writing the ultimate country song.  It has: boots, blue jeans, cowboy hats, highways, country girls, and (of course) pickup trucks!  Okay, okay; sure it doesn't have dogs or horses in it.  Hey, no one's THAT good.:O

Too bad it's too late to sign up for Nashville Star.:cry
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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2007, 01:13:07 PM »
Steve Goodman already wrote it.
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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2007, 01:18:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Steve Goodman already wrote it.

sang by David Allen Coe?

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Well, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
and he told me it was the perfect country and western song
I wrote him back a letter and told him it was NOT the perfect
country and western song because he hadn't said anything about
Momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison, or gettin' drunk.
Well, he sat down and wrote another verse to the song and he sent
it to me and after reading it, I realized that my friend had written
the perfect country and western song. And I felt obliged to include it
on this album. The last verse goes like this here:

Well, I was drunk the day my Mom got outta prison.
And I went to pick her up in the rain.
But, before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old train.

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« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2007, 01:19:03 PM »
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Originally posted by Sabre
Okay, okay; sure it doesn't have dogs or horses in it.  Hey, no one's THAT good.

What if I only sung in a row, "Boots, Blue Jeans, cowboy hats, highways, and some country girls, we drove off in our pickup truck with the dog and horse in the trailer...."
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« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2007, 01:33:54 PM »
"I'm My Own Grandpa"

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/54702/im_my_own_grandpa/


Many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three,

           

I was married to a widow who was pretty as can be
this widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
my father fell in love with her, and soon they  too were wed.

 


This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my  life,
now my daughter was my mother, cause she was my father's wife.
to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.


My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad,
and so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
for if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
of the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course,
was my stepmother.


Father's wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
and he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
my wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue,
because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother, too.

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild,
and every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
cause now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
as husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!

Oh, I'm my own grandpa.
I'm my own grandpa.
it sounds funny I know  but it really is so,
oh, I'm my own grandpa

I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa...
it sounds funny I know
but it really is so
oh, I'm my own grandpa......


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« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2007, 02:46:13 PM »
Wolfa, my head hurts after reading that. :huh

Holden, I must concede your point.  I do believe Goodman's got me beat.
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« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2007, 03:28:16 PM »
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Originally posted by Sabre
Wolfa, my head hurts after reading that. :huh

Holden, I must concede your point.  I do believe Goodman's got me beat.


Sabre;

Let's read it or hear it.

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« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2007, 03:36:46 PM »
Click the link, you'll hear it.


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« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2007, 04:30:24 PM »
Dam Wolfa that just killed all kinds of braincells...broke 3 pencils and still got lost...only things missing is the mention of Trailer Parks and Texas.

*singin* "And you don't have to call me Darling, Darling...and I never minded standing in the rain....."

Best Country Song evar!

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« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2007, 04:33:26 PM »
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Originally posted by Wolfala
Click the link, you'll hear it.


I'm hoping to get into the recording studio next week to do a demo cut.  It'l be just me and my guitar, as I haven't got an arrangement done.  Actually, this is my third song.  Another half dozen and I'll have a whole album.:D

I'm reluctant to post the lyrics just yet, but if I manage to get it recorded, I'll try to figure out how to post a link to it.  I don't currently have my own web site.
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« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2007, 10:28:31 PM »
The Ballad of the Alamo

The Ballad of the Alamo
(by Dimitri Tiompkin and P. F. Webster)

In the southern part of Texas, in the town of San Antone
There's a fortress all in ruins that the weeds have overgrown
You may look in vain for crosses and you'll never see a one
But sometimes between the setting and the rising of the sun ...
You can hear a ghostly bugle as the men go marching by
You can hear them as they answer to that roll call in the sky
Colonel Travis, Davy Crockett and a hundred eighty more
Captain Dickenson, Jim Bowie present and accounted for;

Back in eighteen thirty-six - Houston said to Travis
"Get some volunteers and go - fortify the Alamo"
Well, the men came from Texas and from old Tennessee
And they joined up with Travis - just to fight for the right to be free ...
Indian scouts with squirrel guns, men with muzzle loaders
Stood together heel and toe to defend the Alamo
"You may ne'er see your loved ones" Travis told them that day
"Those that want to can leave now, those that fight to the death let 'em stay."

In the sand he drew a line with his Army sabre
Out of a hundred eighty five not a soldier crossed the line
With his banners a-dancin' in the dawn's golden light
Santa Anna came prancin' on a horse that was black as the night ...
Sent an officer to tell - Travis to surrender
Travis answered with a shout and a rousin' rebel yell
Santa Anna turned scarlet, "Play [*Deguello]", he roared
"I will show them no quarter, everyone will be put to the sword";

One hundred and eighty five holdin' back five thousand
Five days, six days, eight days - ten; Travis held and held again
Then he sent for replacements for his wounded and lame
But the troops that were comin' never came, never came, never came ...
Twice he charged them to recall - on the fatal third time
Santa Anna breached the wall and he killed them one and all
Now the bugles are silent and there's rust on each sword
And the small band of soldiers ... lie asleep in the arms of the Lord ...

In the southern part of Texas, near the town of San Antone
Like a statue on his Pinto rides a cowboy all alone
And he sees the cattle grazin' where a century before
Santa Anna's guns were blazin' and the cannons used to roar
And his eyes turn sorta misty and his heart begins to glow
And he takes his hat off slowly - to the Men of Alamo
To the thirteen days of glory at the seige of Alamo.


Recorded by Marty Robbins



Even the lead runs in this song kick ass.

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« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2007, 10:47:35 PM »
one of the bands I used to tour with in '97-98. :) http://www.scots.com (remind me to send Max to the recipes link from that website)

now that's some country!

http://www.choicescruising.com/house.mp3
http://www.scots.com/theband/sounds/dwlDTooMuchPork.mp3
http://www.ncmusichistory.com/mp3/SCOTS_Nashville_Toupee.mp3
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