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Country/Western Trivia (Apropos of nothing edition)

UPDATE: Joel nailed all the questions. Way to go, bro. Greg, I checked out "Our Town" - very nice, thanks for turning me on to it. And for you other folks not familiar with Lacy J. Dalton and "16th Avenue", please do click on the link provided and the lyrics I have put at the end of the post. It's a lovely song.

So the Sainted Glady Knight quiz has been pretty well answered (7 of 10 in less than 24 hours, I'm proud of you kids!) and I am tired and shagged out following a whole lot of work. And for no good reason, while updating the answered questions in the Sainted Gladys Knight quiz, this particular song popped into my head. It's by a Santa Cruz local girl from way back, though she was known in SC and environs by her original name of Jill Croston before she chose a more "commercial" name and hit it big(ger) in Nashville.

In any case, not being a hardcore follower of contemporary C/W music, this is one of the few songs of hers I know well, but it's a beauty and very moving. So here are a few random questions, all from the same song:

1) With years of living tucked underneath their arms, they walk away from everything to do what?

2) They drive to town (with all they own) in what? And why?

3) Some were born to money, but others had to do what?

4) There's cowboys and drunks and Christians. Mostly what colors?

5) After years of being nothing, they're looking right at you. And for a while they'll do what?

6) And finally, God Bless the boys who do what?

For anyone who doesn't know the song (and you are on your honor not to click through before answering the questions above, here's a reference)

UPDATE: Here are the lyrics, stolen of course from another website:

From the corners of the country, from the cities and the farms
With years and years of living tucked up underneath their arms
They walked away from everything just to see a dream come true
So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Avenue

With a million dollar spirit and an old flattop guitar
They drive to town with all they own in a hundred dollar car
'Cause one time someone told them about a friend of a friend they knew
Who owns, you know, a studio on 16th Avenue

Now some were born to money, they've never had to say "survive"
And others swing a nine-pound hammer just to stay alive
There's cowboys, drunks, and Christians, mostly white and black and blue
They've all dialed the phone collect to home from 16th Avenue

Ah, but then one night in some empty room where no curtains ever hung
Like a miracle some golden words rolled off of someone's tongue
And after years of being nothing they're all looking right at you
And then for a while they'll go in style on 16th Avenue

It looked so uneventful, so quiet and discreet
But a lot of lives where changed down on that little one way street
'Cause they walked away from everything just to see a deam come true
So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Avenue

From the corners of the country, from the cities and the farms
With years and years of living tucked up underneath their arms
They walked away from everything just to sing to me and you
So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Avenue

Posted by Ken S at April 19, 2008 04:23 PM | TrackBack (0) | Category: Country/Western Trivia