[UPDATE: Angie gets extra-double-sooper-dooper-Hobbesian bonus points for successfully injecting particle physics into a Marty Robbins thread. I'm still just a wee bit surprised no one has gotten No. 4 yet, that's one of my all time favorites.]
[Further update: Last of the answers added]
Yeah, I know I did, in effect, a Marty Robbins Edition recently. But that one was strictly focused on Gunfighter Ballads. Marty did a lot more than that. There's also the fact that I picked up a new CD collection today at Costco. This was not a country music collection, though, more like bland, inoffensive pop songs from the 60s. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I happen to like a lot of bland, inoffensive pop songs from the 60s, but since I just had a R'n'RT yesterday, it didn't seem right to just do another R'n'RT today. However, you may expect a R'n'RT (Bland, Inoffensive, Pop Songs Edition), or perhaps more than one, since it's a six CD collection, in the near future.
For today, though, I'm dedicating this C/WT edition to the late, great Marty Robbins. I'll try to be good and not repeat any I've used already, but no promises. Also, no particular order but that which my enfeebled mind comes up with.
1) You bitch. Not that the good and kind-hearted Marty would ever use that particular epithet. But I have absolutely no compunctions about using it. You bitch. Once you told me, long ago, you'd do this with me. And how did I dress up for it? Bitch. [Mike: You told me long ago to the prom with me you'd go, so I got all duded up in a white sport coat and a pink carnation. And the bitch dumped me.]
2) I never felt more like crying all night. What's wrong, and what's right? And what do you have me doing? [Joel gets a partial: You've got me singin' the blues, but the rest of the question is still open] [Rest of the answer: Everything's wrong and nothing ain't right without you]
3) How can you leave without regret, am I what? [Answer: Am I that easy to forget?]
4) He came to ride a horse, the one they called the Brute. Who is he? [Answer: I'm shocked, shocked that no one got this one; he is, of course, the Cowboy in the Continental Suit]
5) From thirty thousand feet above the desert floor, I see it there below. What? [Mike: El Paso City]
6) Hands that are strong but wrinkled, hair that's lost some of its beauty. She's the foundation I lean on. Who is she? [Joel and Angie: My woman, my woman, my wife]
7) When evening chores are over at our ranch house on the plains, I saddle up my pony and do what? [Full disclosure: I didn't know Marty sang this one, I found it while confirming lyrics] [Answer: I'm not surprised no one got this one, I think it's pretty obscure, but in fact I saddle up my pony and go Ridin' Down the Canyon; a lovely song indeed]
Posted by Ken S at August 19, 2007 04:35 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Country/Western TriviaI am surprised that no one has answered number 1 yet: "You told me long ago to the prom with me you'd go", and I dressed in "a white sport coat and a pink carnation".
Number 5 is El Paso City.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Dubost at August 20, 2007 07:42 AM2) I think you've got me singing the blues. (If this were Ernest Tubb, I'd be walking the floor instead.)
6) She's my woman, my woman, my wife. (That song gives me a throat-lump every time.)
Posted by: Joel, President of Catholics for Xenu at August 20, 2007 10:00 AM6) My woman, my woman, my wife. Oh yeah, big weeper in our household.
This is for the physics geek in you: that song had me wondering about that other weeper, "Amanda" ("Amanda, light of my life, fate should have made you a gentleman's wife..."). That wasn't done by Robbins, but by Don Williams or Waylon Jennings, your choice. But googling for it did lead to this. I bet no one got that reference.
(Dang, Joel beat me to it because he wasn't out googling for telescopes!)
Posted by: Angie Schultz at August 20, 2007 10:05 AM