i wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt

[schmerica]

Here is the official list of the music I associate with my childhood:

+ Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack
+ Grease soundtrack
+ Meat Loaf, Bat Out of Hell
+ Merle Haggard, Country Christmas
+ David Allan Coe, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"
+ Harry Chaplin, "Cat's in the Crade" and "30,000 Pounds of Bananas"
+ "The Scotsman" by ... I have no idea who sings this, but it's the one with "I see you won first prize" as the punchline. Heh.
+ Creedence Clearwater Revival
+ Johnny Cash
+ Bobby Bare
+ Waylon Jennings
+ Tanya Tucker
+ Hank Williams, Jr.
+ Willie Nelson
+ Dolly Parton
+ Roger Miller

All of which adds up to a) I just made myself a country playlist on my iTunes and am resisting singing "Delta Dawn" at the top of my lungs and b) I come by my schizophrenic musical taste honestly and c) COMFORT FOOD MUSIC.

I might have to make up a country mix. And then all you people who already think you hate it will just ignore it, and all of you who like it will have all the songs already. Heh.

...And now I just found "The Scotsman" on iTunes. AWESOME.

ETA: Do any of you guys know an either country or singer-songwritery song from the 70s that involved a guy talking to his girlfriend's dad about how the guy and the girlfriend are living in sin together? I remember listening to THAT song on my parents' record player, too, but I can't remember the name or artist. HELP ME LJ.

Edited AGAIN to add: "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" is seriously one of the best "I miss the good old days, all you newbies SUCK" creations ever.

Edited AGAIN AGAIN: I had a good friend in New York City
He never called me by my name, just hillbilly
My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
And his taught him to be a businessman
He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
And I’d send him some homemade wine

But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife
For 43 dollars my friend lost his life
Id love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes
And shoot him with my old 45

Is it wrong that that part of the song makes a Fraser and Vecchio story in my head? Because it totally DOES.

ficbyzee was inquiring of me if I was perhaps drunk when I started attacking her with lyrics and excited asscaps. UNFORTUNATELY THE ANSWER IS NO.

EDITING THIS POST YET AGAIN: You know, when I was little? I thought "fell off the mountain" was, like, a euphemism or metaphor or whatever for getting sober. You know, like being on the wagon? But then I found out that, no, that's not what they were saying when Hank Williams Jr fell off the mountain. No, dude LITERALLY fell off a freaking mountain and destroyed his face and skull and still SURVIVED. Which, uh, is how he got from looking like *that* to looking like *this*. HARDCORE.

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