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"Toss His Shoes"

Posted over 4 years ago

I forget whether it was an Indian tribe, or an Eskimo society, but a husband could come home and find his shoes and his bow and arrows and spear sitting outside the tent/lodge/whatever, and know that he was, more o rless, divorced.
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Comments (14)

  1. Mike the Knife
    Mike the Knife says What about spinning around three times, then saying "I divorce thee! I divorce thee! I divorce thee!"?
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  2. fairportfan
    fairportfan says That's Islamic law. Kate says she thinks it was the Apache who tossed shoes.
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  3. Rawkkiddoh
    Rawkkiddoh says Was listening to Loretta Lynn today and the song Dont Come Home a Drinking With Lovin On Your Mind.........country like this is always great.
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  4. fairportfan
    fairportfan says You oughta hear Cowboy Mouth's version of "Don't Come Home..." (...that's *so* unladylike!")
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  5. chucky
    chucky says Heh. I beat that dude'll never pull that shit again. Who else did Cheating Heart? I know I know it differently. Patsy Cline?
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  6. fairportfan
    fairportfan says ~8QJFuI8THEA.mp3~ Samples from the track. Just give a feel. Hard to believe this was fifteen years ago. Seems like i just bought it last week.
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  7. fairportfan
    fairportfan says I don't know - the only version i'm really familiar with is Hank's original... Lemme google... From *Wikipedia*:
    Many artists have recorded the song since Williams released it, including Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley and Louis Armstrong; the biggest hit version of the song was done by Joni James, reaching #2 on the Billboard pop chart in 1953; the Rat Pack actor Joey Bishop recorded an infamously bad version of it in the 1960s. Ray Charles had US and British chart success with the song in 1962. American folk singer Don McLean recorded a version for his Chain Lightning album in 1978 which featured Elvis Presley's backing singers, The Jordanaires. McLean's version of the song received a Grammy award in 1983. It would be covered yet again in a dream-like piano and slide guitar arrangement by Beck in 2001. The Joni James version was recorded on January 7, 1953 and released by MGM Records as catalog number 11426. A recording by Frankie Laine was also made contemporaneously, on January 8, 1953 and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39938. Released after the James version, it reached the number 18 position on the charts. Your Cheatin' Heart was also the title of the film of Hank Williams' life story made in 1964, with George Hamilton playing Williams and Susan Oliver as his wife, Audrey. It has also been used as the title of a BBC television series.
    Any of those sound familiar?
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  8. chucky
    chucky says If Patsy Cline covered it, that has to be the version I know because I can *hear* her singing it in my head even though I don't have a copy of it.
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  9. fairportfan
    fairportfan says Speaking of Hank and Patsy - have you heard *Cowboy Junkies*' versions of Walking After Midnight (which Cowboy Mouth also used to do a fine version of but i can't recall if they ever recorded it) and I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry? They're both almost kinda scary.
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  10. chucky
    chucky says No I haven't. But I'd love to hear Walking After Midnight. I'm always up for a good cover.
    Permalink posted 06/25/2007
  11. Anna
    Anna says See, I would just scratch that with keys on his car mwuahahhaha
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  12. fairportfan
    fairportfan says Nah, see, you don't appreciate the emotional bond thast a redneck has with his bass boat. It might well cost more than his truck. And, besides, just keying it into the side of his truck wouldn't call it so openly to the attention of all the neighbours...
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  13. Anna
    Anna says Did I say "keys"? I meant a gigantic kitchen knife. But yeah, you pick what to destroy depending on the person.
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007
  14. yrralmallik
    yrralmallik says Hank is still the King of Country.Hank Sr. that is.Love it his songs just seem to be as fresh as the day he sang them.Enjoyed the listen ever so much.I like Patsys version too.Your Mog Bro.~ (;Yrral Mallik;)
    Permalink posted 06/26/2007

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