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To: simpson96

Willie’s version is the one that grabs me the most:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWNcTYbcPU


33 posted on 11/15/2016 11:05:39 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick; simpson96
Willie's version is the one that grabs me the most:

From London, England living in Canada opposite the UP of Michigan. I remember a small downstairs bar in our neighbouring city called the Hickler House. I sank back a beer and someone played this on the juke box.

I remember being sneered at in the British army as raw conscript. I mentioned that one day, I would like to go to the USA. A cockney voice said "yewll nevah get to Americaw". (You will never get to America).There I was in small town Michigan and I remembered the sneer and savoured the moment.

The video with Willie Nelson is a nice piece of Americana. "The graveyard of the rusted automobiles"- then a young woman feeding her infant the old fashioned way.

Excuse the ramble.

34 posted on 11/15/2016 11:24:36 AM PST by Peter Libra
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