Polk Me Right Thar, Like I Likes It
Polk is one of my favorite nouns and proper names. Polk Strasse. President Polk. Polk salad. Tony Joe and this song figured very heavily in my puberty and endorsement of the line "Neil Young is a liar." If Nashville could still produce tunes like this and the Lee Hazlewood catalog, I'd be a huge C&W fan. Tim McGraw looks great in tight jeans and T-shirts, but his music is pretty Bleh.He's no Tony Joe "Gator's got your granny" is a lyric Sondheim only dreams of. The only other song that comes close is "Nutbush City Limits". This is the real McCoy.
Labels: country music, sex, sexual orientation, the South
posted by Ladrón de Basura (a.k.a. Junk Thief) @ 10:21 PM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Yes, Gator's got your granny is a great line. Elvis sings it in the movie "Elvis, the Way it Is." Origially a sort of Elvis Babylon documentary with nerdy fans it was re-released and chopped to bits. I have the album.
As far as country music is concerned, it's divided into two camps: Hank Williams Sr. and Hank Williams Jr.
In my opinion (and yours it seems):
HW Sr.= great
HW Jr.= beh
Great tune-thanks for posting. :)
Bryce - Elvis also did a pretty good cover of "Never Been to Spain".
Jill - Is it beh of bleh? There's also now a HW III. I've seen a couple of clips of him, and he's better than dad, no where equal to grandpa. Tim McGraw: I'd go see him if he were a stripper, dancing to Tony Joe's and Mr. Hazlewood's music.
I grew up in Polk County, Iowa
CB - I think every state has some sort of Polk. SF has Polk Street, of course.
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