GreenArrow
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Thu Nov-04-04 05:16 PM
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here's a little song for all yall out in the red states |
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I wanna tell you all the story bout the Harper Valley widow wife Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play And she said mom I got a note here from the Harper Valley PTA Well the note said Mrs Johnson you're wearin' your dresses way too high It's reported you've been drinkin' and a runnin' round with men and goin' wild And we don't believe you oughta be a bringin' up your little girl this way And it was signed by the secretary Harper Valley PTA Well it happened that the PTA was gonna meet that very afternoon And they were sure surprised when Mrs Johnson wore her miniskirt into the room And as she walked up to the blackboard I can still recall the words she had to say She said I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley PTA Well there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there and seven times he asked me for a date And Mrs Taylor sure seems to use a lotta ice whenever he's away And Mr Baker can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town And shouldn't widow Jones be told to keep Her window shades all pulled completely down Well Mr Harper couldn't be here cause he stayed too long at Kelly's Bar again And if you smell Shirley Thompson's breath you'll find she's had a little nip of gin And when you have the nerve to tell me you think that as a mother I'm not fit Well this is just a little Payton Place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites No I wouldn't put you on because it really did it happened just this way The day my mama socket it to the Harper Valley PTA The day my mama socket it to the Harper Valley PTA
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Thu Nov-04-04 05:20 PM
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1. country music used to be subversive |
GreenArrow
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Thu Nov-04-04 05:28 PM
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2. yep, Toby Keith and that ilk |
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but it's been bad for a lot longer than than that worthless hack has been around.
Here's one from the late, great Johnny Cash:
CHORUS: Call him drunken Ira Hayes He won't answer anymore Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian Nor the Marine that went to war
Gather round me people there's a story I would tell About a brave young Indian you should remember well From the land of the Pima Indian A proud and noble band Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land
Down the ditches for a thousand years The water grew Ira's peoples' crops 'Till the white man stole the water rights And the sparklin' water stopped
Now Ira's folks were hungry And their land grew crops of weeds When war came, Ira volunteered And forgot the white man's greed
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There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill, Two hundred and fifty men But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again
And when the fight was over And when Old Glory raised Among the men who held it high Was the Indian, Ira Hayes
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Ira returned a hero Celebrated through the land He was wined and speeched and honored; Everybody shook his hand
But he was just a Pima Indian No water, no crops, no chance At home nobody cared what Ira'd done And when did the Indians dance
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Then Ira started drinkin' hard; Jail was often his home They'd let him raise the flag and lower it like you'd throw a dog a bone!
He died drunk one mornin' Alone in the land he fought to save Two inches of water in a lonely ditch Was a grave for Ira Hayes
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Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes But his land is just as dry And his ghost is lyin' thirsty In the ditch where Ira died
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