What would Ernest Tubb have thought?
Country music has ebbed and flowed over my lifetime. I’d have given it up in the 70s if not for Willie & Waylon (& Emmylou Harris.) Don’t find much there for me at all these days, so I just play my old CDs.
Ernest Tubb! Memories of the past.
Country Music Lover
Little Jimmy Dickens
Oh, I really thought that I had learned to love her
I even took her home to meet my mother
That’s why it breaks my heart to discover
That she ain’t a country music lover.
The trouble all started with them phonograph records I bought her
Like she thought Kitty Wells was a place a cat goes to get water
Why she even thought that Ferlin Husky was some kind of Eskimo dog
She thought The Texas Troubadours were President Johnson’s staff
She even thought that Ernest Tubb was a sincere place to take a bath