Reply #26: This is a little politically incorrect, but it's good to know that people thought this in Nashville [View All]

[Ken Burch]

(and that some in the music industry in various ways may still think thus), but when Jerry Jeff Walker had written that song and was pitching it to various music publishers and labels in the Music City, he was reportedly told "Son, ain't nobody wants to hear a song about an old d---y and his dead dog".