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Posted over 2 years ago
i dig bobby dylan and i dig johnny cashand i think waylon jennings is a table thumpin' smashand hearin' joni mitchell feels as good as smokin' grassand if you don't like hank williams, honey, you can kiss my ass
'cause i think what they've done is well worth doin'and they're doin' it the best way that they canyou're the only one that you are screwin'when you put down what you don't understand
i said, i dig roger miller, merle haggard; george jonesshotgun willie nelson and them rockin' rollin' stonesand jerry lee's still gotta be the coolest in the classand if you don't like hank williams, honey, you can kiss my ass.
'cause i think what they've done is well worth doin'and they're doin' it the best way that they canyou're the only one that you are screwin'when you put down what you don't understand
forgot to say john prine, neil young, lyle lovett (god bless him), chris gantry, jerry jeff walker, and david allen coe...
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  1. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says Ray Riley Hubbard, David Alan Coe, Ernest Tubb, Jimmy Rogers and a whole bunch of others people oughtta know.
    Permalink posted 02/17/2007
  2. Spike
    Spike says Kris Kristofferson's lyrics for this song are probably his sincere opinions, in which case he refuses to befriend anyone who doesn't share his taste for Hank Williams, or at least anyone who has told him on their own initiative that they don't. He must be popular enough to limit his circle of friends using that criterion. I once befriended someone mostly because of his wide tastes in music. At one point he said he liked bluegrass, and I asked him if he liked Hank Williams. When he said no, suddenly a huge area of music was off-limits to our discourse. Later he said that he realized that he had confused Hank Williams with Hank Williams Jr., and that he had since heard Hank Williams records that he really liked. On some irrational solipsistic level, I find it mystifying that others don't have tastes in music identical to mine. Why can't they invent an esthetometer that will prove scientifically that my musical choices are the right ones?
    Permalink posted 02/17/2007
  3. fairportfan
    fairportfan says I think where Kris is comong from in this discussion is something similar to *Burt Reynolds*'s line: "Who's an asshole depends on exactly where you're standing when the word comes up." (not exact, from memory). *Webb Wilder* has a little number called If You Don't Think Elvis is Number One, You're Full of Number Two. But i do have to agree with Kris to some extent (which is why i posted the lyric); if you profess a wide musical taste but disdain the founders of a given genre, you're at least misrepresenting yourself, possily even to yourself...
    Permalink posted 02/17/2007
  4. Spike
    Spike says You're a fount of usable one-liners.
    Permalink posted 02/17/2007
  5. fairportfan
    fairportfan says I think that was a compliment...
    Permalink posted 02/17/2007
  6. Spike
    Spike says T'was.
    Permalink posted 02/17/2007

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