Singin' the Blues or any other durn thing ya want.

[Ozark Tracker]

Ten,  this is the picture we were talkin about isn't it?

My Granddad Cole is on the horse in the back on the left.

[Tensleep]

That's the one OT.

[Texas Lawdog]

You Cole's get around.

[litl rooster]

is the guy standing behind the wagon releiving himself?

[Ozark Tracker]

   may be,  that may be the reason everybody's lookin over this way, givin him some priviacy

[Texas Lawdog]

That's mighty thoughtful of them.

[litl rooster]

I'm sure my drive home had some inspration to this one

Crossin' the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are!

You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!

Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose!
Roll up yer window and hold yer nose
You don't have to look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory

You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!

Yeah you got yer dead cat and you got yer dead dog
On a moonlight night you got yer dead toad frog
Got yer dead rabbit and yer dead raccoon
The blood and the guts they're gonna make you swoon!
You got yer
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
You got yer dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high Heaven!

C'mon stink!

You got it!
It's dead, it's in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle!
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven!
All over the road, technicolor man!
Oh, you got pollution
It's dead, it's in the middle
And it's stinkin' to high, high Heaven

[Texas Lawdog]

LR, I hadn't thought about "Dead Skunk" in a long time. We had a bunch of those wonderful songs in the late 60s-early 70s.

[litl rooster]

LR, I hadn't thought about "Dead Skunk" in a long time. We had a bunch of those wonderful songs in the late 60s-early 70s.

Like this one from one of yer fella Texicans


Ol ben lucas had a lot of mucus
Comin right out of his nose.
He picked and picked till it made you sick
But back again it grows.

Well, ol ben lucas had a lot of mucus
Comin right out of his nose.
He picked and picked till it made you sick,
But back again it grows.

When its cotton picking time in texas,
Boys, its booger picking time for ben.
Hed raise that finger mean and hostile
Stick it in that waitin nostril,
Here he comes with a green one once again.

All right, pick it, eric!

Ol ben lucas had a lot of mucus
Comin right out of his nose.
He picked and picked till it made you sick,
But back again it grows.

Everybody!
Ol ben lucas had a lot of mucus
Comin right out of his nose,
He picked and picked till it made you sick
But back again it grows.



This should put a smile on Delmonico face today, and make him happier contending with the Hliday cheer at work

[Texas Lawdog]

LR, I can identify with Ol' Ben Lucas when I get up in the morning.

[Leo Tanner]

Fer some reason, Dead Skunk reminded me of this one from Spade Cooley.  I have no idea why.  I think the station my dad listened to when I was a kid had a program that played em both.  Haven't thought of it in years...

Detour, there's a muddy road ahead, detour
Paid no mind to what it said
Detour, oh these bitter things I find,
Should have read
That detour sign

Headed down life's crooked road, lots of things I never knowed
Because of me not knowin', I now pine
Trouble got in the trail, spent the next 5 years in jail
Should have read (should have read) that detour sign

Detour, there's a muddy road ahead, detour
Paid no mind to what it said
Detour, oh these bitter things I find,
Should have read
That detour sign

When I got right to the place where it said "About Face"
I thought that all my worries were behind
But the farther I go, more sorrow I know
Should have read (should have read)
That detour sign

Detour, there's a muddy road ahead, detour
Paid no mind to what it said
Detour, oh these bitter things I find,
Should have read
That detour sign

When I got stuck in the mud all my hopes dropped with a thud
I guess that my heart strings are made of twine
Have no willpower to get from the hole that I'm in yet
Should have read (should have read) that detour sign

Detour, there's a muddy road ahead, detour
Paid no mind to what it said
Detour, oh these bitter things I find,
Should have read
That detour sign

Should have read that detour sign
Should have read that detour sign (that detour sign)

[Texas Lawdog]

Leo, Did you know that Spade did some B Westerns back then?

[Delmonico]

LR, I hadn't thought about "Dead Skunk" in a long time. We had a bunch of those wonderful songs in the late 60s-early 70s.

The Dead Skunk guy Louden Wainwright the III was also the guy with the guitar on the first season of MASH.  Wrote and did some really good songs, but that is te one he's known for.

[Texas Lawdog]

He sings another one in some of the episodes about Tokyo.

[Arcey]

My oh my. One the talk shows used this fer bumper music. Bet I ain't heard it since I was a kid.

Rain dripping off the brim of my hat
Sure is cold today
Here I am'a walking down sixty-six
Wish she hadn't done me that way

Sleeping under a table at a road side park
A man could wake up dead
But it sure seems warmer than it did
Sleepin in our king size bed

Is anybody goin to San Antone
Or Pheonix Arizona
Anyplace is alright as long as I
Can forget I've ever known her

Wind whipping down the neck of my shirt
Like I aint got nothing on
But I'd rather fight the wind and rain
Than what I've been fighting at home

Yonder comes a truck with the US Mail
People writing letters back home
Tomorrow she'll probably want me back
But I'll still be just as gone

Is anybody goin to San Antone
Or Pheonix Arizona
Anyplace is alright as long as I
Can forget I've ever known her

Anyplace is alright as long as I
forget I've ever known her

[Texas Lawdog]

I had a Charlie Pride 8 Track with that one it that played till I wore the tape out.

[Delmonico]

Get a sydicated oldies show on the one station Sundays 7-10 both amm and pm, they run it twice.  Can't think of the guys name, but he runs that one once in a while.

[Ozark Tracker]

I can remember when they'd have a Charley Pride song,  he'd be introduced as cousin Charley Pride, not quite sure who's cousin he was, but I always liked his singing. 

we got a tractor with a cab in 73, it had a radio, so 8 or 10 hours a day I'd listen to it, knew all the words to all those songs during that time,  just drive and sing along

[litl rooster]

Get a sydicated oldies show on the one station Sundays 7-10 both amm and pm, they run it twice.  Can't think of the guys name, but he runs that one once in a while.

Big John...cain't think of his last name Montana use to listen to him


Del your right about MASH... I think even play bit parts in it.

[Texas Lawdog]

I've got XM in my wife's car and one of my pickups. We've got Sirius on the DishNetwork in the house. I enjoy listening to the old country music.