Country Continuation

As you've seen on T's blog, I've been doing a bit of cow-punching and fence-checking lately at the farm and on the ranch. This - along with the hundreds of miles of corn and soy beans that I've been driving past have got me in the mood for country music. Since I know that most of my readers never get to experience this true American art form, I thought I'd share some of the more memorable bits.

Because country music has a rather broad range of perspectives on life all set to the same types of tunes and rhythms, you get some interesting combinations between commercial breaks. Each of the following pairs of songs were played back to back on the same radio station over the last week. Just in case the titles aren't enough, I've included the last bit of lyrics from the first song and the first portion of the next .... and just like the radio DJ, I'll play 'em back to back.

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[Jesus Take the Wheel]

It was still getting colder when she made it to the shoulder and that car came to a stop

She cried when she saw that baby in the back seat sleepin' like a rock

For the first time in a long time she bowed her head to pray

She said I'm sorry for the way I've been livin' my life

I know I've got to change So from now on tonight

Jesus take the wheel Take it from my hands'

Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go

So give me one more chance Save me from this road I'm on

Jesus take the wheel

Every time you take a sip In this smoky atmosphere

You press that bottle to your lips and I wish I was your beer

In the small there of your back your jeans are playing peekaboo

I'd like to see the other half of your butterfly tattoo.

Hey that gives me an idea Let's get out of this bar

Drive out into the country and find a place to park.

'Cause I'd like to see you out in the moonlight

I'd like to kiss you way back in the sticks

I'd like to walk you through a field of wildflowers and

I'd like to check you for ticks.

[Ticks]

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[Independence Day]

Well she lit up the sky that fourth of July

but by the time the firemen come they

Just put out the flames and took down some names

and send me to the county home

Now I ain’t sayin’ it’s right or it’s wrong

but maybe it’s the only way

talk about your revolution
It’s Independence Day

Let freedom ring, let the white dove sing

let the whole world know that

Today is a day of reckoning

let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay

It’s independence day

Plowing these fields in the hot summer sun

over by the gate lordy here she comes

With a basket full of chicken and a big cold jug of sweet tea

I make a little room and she climbs on up

Open up a throttle and stir a little dust

Just look at her face - she ain't a foolin me

She thinks my tractor's sexy It really turns her on

She's always staring at me While I'm chuggin along

She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land

She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan

She's the only one who really understands what gets me

She thinks my tractor's sexy

[She Thinks My Tractors Sexy]

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[Before He Cheats]

Right now, she's probably up singing some

white-trash version of Shania karaoke..

Right now, she's probably saying "I'm drunk"

and he's thinking that he's gonna lucky,

Right now, he's probably dabbing on 3 dollars worth

of that bathroom polo.

and he don't know...

That I dug my key into the side

of his pretty little suped-up 4 wheel drive,

Carved my name into his leather seat...

I took a Louisville slugger to both head lights,

Slashed a hole in all 4 tires...

maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.

If you're tellin me I'm not on fire

You're just preachin to the choir

I've gotten dull as old barbed wire from livin'
Last night I watched the evening news

It was the same ol nothin new

It should have cut me right in two

But it didnt I dont know why it didnt

But I wanna feel somethin

Somethin thats a real somethin That moves me,

that proves to me Im still alive

I wanna heart that beats and bleeds

A heart thats bustin at the seams

I wanna care, I wanna cry,

I wanna scream I just wanna feel somethin

[I Wanna Feel Something]