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Country/Western Trivia (Charley Pride Edition)

[UPDATE: Last of the answers added]

So we made a Borders run today, having some 25% off coupons burning holes in our pockets. I went looking for Band of Brothers. They were out of stock on it. Sigh.

BUT... I picked up a couple of CDs. Gots me a Jerry Jeff Walker and a [genuflect] Roy Clark. I was all set to start putting together a Roy Clark edition, but I realized that I wanted to spend a little more time on putting together a tribute quiz for the Roy-man. That was partly because so much of his best material is instrumentals (small aside: when I was a mere snip of a youth, my parents had a Roy Clark album with the best version of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" I've ever heard; sadly, it's not on this CD, but an asskicker version of "Ghost Riders in the Sky" is), and also partly because there's one song on the CD I had never heard before, but I got a big kick out of it. It's called "The Lawrence Welk-Hee Haw Counter-Revolutionary Polka". Heh. It's great.

So anyway, once I decided to put off a Roy Clark quiz for at least a little bit, I considered looking into Jerry Jeff Walker. Unfortunately, I know JJW more as a songwriter, so once again I will postpone in favor of looking up more of his material that's not on this CD.

So what to do?

Well, as I was back in the home stretch of my bike ride, a completely different and unrelated song popped into my head. No idea why, but it was just after I had switched off the CD player while I headed into the driveway. And so, and idea was born. Can't say that Charley is one of my alltime favorites, but he did a lot of very nice stuff and is certainly one of the country/western greats of the last 50 years, and is therefore highly qualified to qualify as the subject of a C/WT quiz and a hell of a run-on sentence. And so, without further ado, away we go:

1) When I was a little bitty baby my mommy would rock me in the cradle. Where? [Bill: In them old cotton fields back home (down in Louisiana just about a mile from Texarkana)]

2) If windshield wipers are slapping time, who is my traveling companion? [Angie: Bobby McGee]

3) When am I having daydreams about nighttime things? [Angie: In the middle of the afternoon]

4) Rain is dripping off the brim of my hat and it sure is cold. Where am I walking and where am I trying to go? [Lisa: I'm walking down (Route) 66, and trying to get to San Antone, or Phoenix, AZ, or really, anyplace where I can forget I've ever known her]

5) When I chance to meet old friends on the street, they wonder how does a man get to be this way. I smile and tell them what? [Lisa: You've got to kiss an angel good morning]

6) Ain't nothin' much to do but just hang around. Where? [Lisa: In a Mississippi cotton-pickin' delta town]

7) Why is the county going to haul my belongings away? [Answer: Because I'm busted]

8) Tell my why, baby, why you do this. What? [Answer: Why you make me cry, baby, cry]

9) Yonder comes a sucker. What does he have? [Answer: Yonder comes a sucker, and he's got my gal]

Posted by Ken S at September 30, 2007 03:32 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Country/Western Trivia