All-Time Best of the.... WORST COUNTRY SONG TITLES!

Downstream ^ | Apr 19 2002

[BluesDuke]

Some first class drinking blues...

John Lee Hooker, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"
Stick McGhee, "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-De-O-Dee" (rearranged subsequently by Mike Bloomfield into "Wine" for the Electric Flag)
Robert Johnson, "Malted Milk Blues"
Robert Johnson, "Drunken Hearted Man"
Tommy Johnson, "Canned Heat Blues"
John Lee Hooker, "Whiskey and Wimmin"

[2Trievers]

Cheers! &;-)

[BluesDuke]

Hi Babe ... I'll bet there's not a country song re: baseball! That's your challenge ... find me one, and I'll be yours forever! &;-)

I'll bet you're wrong:

Willie, Mickey and the Duke (Talkin' Baseball)
(Written and recorded by Terry Cashman, 1981)

The Whiz Kids had won it
Bobby Thomson had done it
and Yogi read the comics all the while.
Rock and roll was bein' born
marijuana we would scorn
so down on the corner the national pastime went on trial.
I'm talkin' baseball - Kluszewski, Campanella
talkin' baseball - The Man and Bobby Feller
The Scooter, the Barber and the Newk:
they knew 'em all from Boston to Dubuque
- especially Willie, Mickey and the Duke.

Well, Casey was winning
Hank Aaron was beginning
one Robby going out, one coming in.
Kiner and Midget Gaedel
the Thumper and Mel Parnell,
and Ike was the only one winning down in Washington.
I'm talkin' baseball - Klusewski, Campanella
talkin' baseball - The Man and Bobby Feller.
The Scooter, the Barber and the Newk:
they knew 'em all from Boston to Dubuque
- especially Willie, Mickey and the Duke.

Now, my old friend the Bachelor,
well he swore he was the Oklahoma Kid.
And Cookie played hooky to go and see the Duke
and me, I always loved Willie Mays - those were the days.

Well, now it's the 80s
and Brett is the greatest
and Bobby Bonds can play for everyone.
Rose is at the Vet
Rusty again is a Met
and the great Alexander is pitching again in Washington.
I'm talkin' baseball - like Reggie, Quisenberry.
Talkin' baseball - Carew and Gaylord Perry.
Seaver, Garvey, Schmidt and Vida Blue,
if Cooperstown is callin', it's no fluke.
You'll be with Willie, Mickey and the Duke.

[Dan from Michigan]

I know John Lee Hooker's "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer". I'll look for the others.

[uglybiker]

I'll bet there's not a country song re: baseball! That's your challenge ... find me one, and I'll be yours forever! &;-)

Alabama: Cheap Seats

[Dan from Michigan]

Raising Bottle(Killians)

[2Trievers]

Oops! I just gave away the Farm, didn't I? LOL &;-)

I should have known better than to challenge a Knave!

[BluesDuke]

"Drinkin' Wine, Spo-De-O-Dee" appears in the box set, Atlantic Rhythm and Blues, 1947-74; Mike Bloomfield's re-arrangement appears on the Electric Flag's A Long Time Comin'. Both the Robert Johnson numbers are on The Complete Recordings. Tommy Johnson's "Canned Heat Blues" is almost impossible to find; I know the song through the book Chasin' That Devil Music, which featured a special CD that included it, but it's out of print now. "Whiskey and Wimmin," there must be about a dozen versions of it by John Lee alone (he was kind of the Duke Ellington of the blues, in terms of incessantly re-recording/re-making many of his signature numbers).

[BluesDuke]

A classic drinking blues I neglected to list: Ray Charles, "Let's Go Get Stoned" (in the earlier 1960s, "stoned" didn't yet mean on, er, whacky tobacky...)

[BluesDuke]

*heheheheheheh* Footnote: Terry Cashman not only had the biggest hit of his career with "Willie, Mickey, and The Duke," but he wrote and recorded versions of the song for every major league team of the time - I used to have the ones he did for the Mets, the Red Sox, and the Phillies, thought I don't recall the lyrics precisely...

[2Trievers]

You amaze me, BD ... Hugs, 2T ... Tons of hugs! &;-)

[Dan from Michigan]

A Robert Johnson CD is on my 'to buy' list. Ever since I watched VH1's top rockers of all time. He made the list, and one of my all time favorites - The Allman Brothers mentioned him as their biggest influence.

Since I think most of the new music out there sucks(I'm not a rap fan and hate the rap influence in new rock), I have to look in different directions.

[LowOiL]

It's not country, but it is the worst I have encountered.

If You See Kay,U tell her I love her.

The first four words were horrible, if you think about it.

Low OiL

[BluesDuke]

A pair of bluesmen today whom you might find very interesting - R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough. (Well, Kimbrough died a few years ago, but his stuff was cut mostly in the 1990s and it was terrific stuff - both he and Burnside come up from the northern Delta country of Mississippi Fred McDowell, who knew them both, and keep the north-Delta drone-and-boogie blues alive in a modern electric setting, and both do it in their own ways. Burnside has a new live album out; all of Kimbrough's - All Night Long, Sad Days, Lonely Nights, Most Things Don't Work Out, God Knows I Tried, and Meet Me In The City - are still in print, as are Burnside's Too Bad, Jim, A Ass Pocket of Whiskey, Mr. Wizard, Come On In, and Wish I Was In Heaven...)

[riley1992]

My brother was a big George Thorogood fan. Between that song and 'Bad to the Bone' he wrecked my brain forever. LOL

[Savage Beast]

Interesting you should say that. I hadn't drunk anything but wine in many years until a friend had an after dinner Scotch whiskey tasting one evening not long ago. The Lagavulin really turned me on. I had to go out and get myself a couple of bottles, and they're already...consumed. That stuff's good.

[2Trievers]

LOL ... spoils you for anything else! &;-)

[Savage Beast]

When I was a child, some of the men who worked for some relatives on their hunting reserve took us children hunting from time to time. They taught us two songs that, to me at the time, were hilarious. If anybody knows the words to them, I'd like to have them.

One was "He's movin' on!" One verse goes like this:

"(Somebodyorother--we'd put in each other's names) was sittin' pretty
Til he grabbed a-hold of a striped kitty!
He's movin' on!
He'll soon be gone!
We held our nose
As we burned his clothes!
He's movin' on!"

The other had multiple nonsense verses and went something like this:

"We feed our babies garlic so we can find them in the dark.
We hope Grandma's false teeth will soon fit Jenny, fit Jenny.
Go get the axe! There's a fly on baby's head!
A man's best friend is his mother, no other.
A man's best friend is his mother.

Anybody know the words to either of these?

[lds23]

Prop Me Against The Jukebox If I Die

Joe Diffee

Well, I ain't afraid of dying, it's the thought of being dead
I want to go on being me once my eulogy's been read
Don't spread my ashes out to sea, don't lay me down to rest
You can put my mind at ease if you fill my last request

(Chorus)

Prop me up beside the juke box if I die
Lord, I want to go to heaven, but I don't want to go tonight
Fill my boots up with sand, put a stiff drink in my hand
Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

Just let my headstone be a neon sign
Just let it burn in memory of all of my good times
Fix me up with a mannequin, just remember, I like blondes
I'll be the life of the party, even when I'm dead and gone

(Repeat chorus)

Just make your next selection, and while you're still in line
You can pay your last respects one quarter at a time

(Repeat chorus)

Prop me up beside the jukebox if I die

[lds23]

"Your Ex-Husband Sent Me Flowers ('Cause He Feels Sorry for Me)"

-Cornell Hurd