18 January 2005

ROSIE - 12.1.05     HOW CAN I MISS YOU IF YOU WON’T GO AWAY?   I’ve always had a place in my heart for country music.  And I’m talking about way back here. I’m not some johnny-come-lately who clambered up onto the buckboard in the late ‘60s alongside The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers &, of course, Bob Dylan when suddenly yesterday’s hillbilly-huckleberry sounds became today’s cutting edge rock & roll.  I still have to stifle a sob when I hear Hank Locklin begging, Please Help Me, I’m Falling or I come across Skeeter Davis calmly staring into the abyss at The End of the World.  And I loved those mariachi trumpets on Ring of Fire years before Johnny Cash became the hipster’s hayseed.   So this list of apparently authentic country & western song titles did for me completely.  What price Rodgers & Hart, Leiber & Stoller, Pomus & Schuman when somebody out there is coming up with headers like these?  I hardly dare speculate about the lyrics…   #  Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye #  Here's A Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares #  I Just Bought A Car From A Guy That Stole My Girl,  But The Car Don't Run So I  Figure  We Got An Even Deal #  If I Had Shot You When I Wanted To, I'd Be Out By Now. #  If the Phone Don't Ring, You'll Know It's Me. #  I Changed Her Oil, She Changed My Life #  Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed #  My John Deere Was Breaking Your Field, While Your Dear John Was Breaking My Heart #  Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through The Goalposts Of Life #  I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling #  She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft #  She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger #  They May Put Me In Prison, But They Can't Stop My Face From Breakin' Out #  You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too #  You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat #  If I Can’t Be Number One  In Your Life, Then Number Two On You #  If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?   11:38:53 PM    Mmm? []

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