Here’s Waylon Jennings with his classic, “You’ve Got a Homely Daddy That’ll Walk the Line”.
I can’t pin that one on my dad the way I can with so many of these. This one’s all on me, I’m afraid. I was a small child, but still.
But fear not, I can still go back to the dad well at least one more time.
As with a lot of these stories, we were piled into the van. My family didn’t do Carin style zillion hours long road trips, but we did drive around a lot. My mom had a Trisha Yearwood tape that was in heavy rotation on the car stereo at the time. I was not a fan, but I was outvoted by literally everyone else so I never said much about it. Now and then I would even join in on the family “She’s In Love With The Boy” singalong because hey, why not?
Dad almost never sang along. He sang, but he did most of his singing in the kitchen. In the car he was generally a listener. But not today.
Everything was going along just fine until we reached the line that says “It wasn’t very long ago When you yourself was just a hay seed plow boy Who didn’t have a row to hoe”. There was dad, singing is heart out loud enough to be heard over Trisha, mom and a couple of little kids. “you yourself was just a hay seed plow boy, WHO DIDN’T HAVE A MOTOR HOME!”
The rest of the song went unsung. None of us had enough breath to finish it. If the windows were down, everyone around us could have heard the laughing. They likely would have also heard poor dad saying “What!? What’d I say!? over and over again until one of us finally composed ourselves enough to set the poor guy straight.
Good times.
This is me just overthinking things, so don’t take this too seriously. But like has anyone ever considered that maybe the fact that a man is going to get so angry that he threatens to murder a woman might have something to do with the reason why said women might be cheating in the first place? If I knew that any wrong move was going to send my husband into a murderous rage, I might not feel comfortable being super honest, either. Just a thought. Sure, you could argue that is not just any simple thing. But if he’s threatening murder, chances are he won’t be doing it for the first time nobody ever talks about that part of cheating ethics.
What am I missing here? Murder threat? If we’re talking about Waylong Jennings, it’s a guy getting frustrated by games he feels are being played. The most he threatens to do is leave, but he doesn’t even want to do that. He just wants her to smarten up and treat him better. If we’re talking Trisha Yearwood, that song isn’t even about cheating. And the closest we get to violence is a dad wanting to put the fear of god into a kid he thinks is messing with his daughter and isn’t good for her.
Nope sorry. I got confused and I heard that song the other day which made me start thinking about boot hill, which absolutely does have talk of murder in it and then I got everything confused. And I was thinking about all the other cheating songs that involve murder clearly got confused and thought this one did as well, but it does not. I just checked. So let’s go back into the past today and pretend that never happened. If we can go back and do that mean that delicious fried chicken sandwich for a second time. Lol. And I was thinking about all the other cheating songs that involve murder clearly got confused and thought this one did as well, but it does not. I just checked. So let’s go back into the past today and pretend that never happened. If we can go back and do it all over again, that means iCan have that delicious fried chicken sandwich for a second time. Lol lol
Oh yeah, that one most definitely is a murdering song. No worries. Confusion happens. And if we’re going back in time, can I have one of those sandwiches too or would that mess up the entire trajectory of the universe?
We could try that. Or we could try the safer option and just have it when you come here in August. I will totally take you to black dog because they have good craft beer there as well.
That sounds like a plan. Beer, chicken and not destroying all of space and time sounds like a good way to spend a couple of days.