Posted on 08/25/2022 5:49:53 PM PDT by fatima
The Doobie Brothers aren’t a country band but “Black Water” has a distinct country feel. Helps to have a New Orleans fiddle player in it while singing about Dixieland and a paddlewheel boat under a Mississippi moon.
I will twine, I will mingle my raven black hair
With the roses so red and the lilies so fair,
And the myrtle so bright with its emerald hue,
The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue.
Note how these Stalinist comrades ripped off the melody:
The Sinking of the Rueben James--The Almanac Singers (1942)
John Denver, “Thank God I’m a country boy”
(...city folk drivin in a black limosine....)
How about Steely Dan’s “Pearl of the Quarter”
Where the sailor spends his hard-earned pay
Red beans and rice for a quarter
You can see her almost any day
Singin’ voulez, voulez, voulez vous
(Exquisite pedal steel guitar from Skunk Baxter)
Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue by Toby Keith
I only like western swing, so Ida Red and San Antonio Rose by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Hey rose is a color!
This is turning into a Marty Robbins thread…
Marty Robbins - White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation
The .357 String Band - Little Black Train of Death (with lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hFATXgtiok&list=PLJqlNZLNtssnK_wb6R9kknBRab7cEP-SE&index=35
So buy him a drink and lend him an ear
He's nobody's fool and he's the only one here
Who remembers the smell of the black powder smoke
And the stand in the street at the turn of a joke
Red River Valley
Yellow Rose of Texas
Blue Moon of Kentucky
and by Loretta Lynn, Blue Kentucky Girl
https://youtu.be/VAMmt77PnXI
The donut song?
“A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation”, by Marty Robbins.
Red Headed Stranger - Willie
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ieFkYPOawro
Is neon a color? (Yeah, I know it’s a stretch…lol)
Neon Moon - Brooks & Dunn
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AxFdeZER8Eg
16 Horsepower - Black Soul Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-vpAn15-vE&list=PLJqlNZLNtssnK_wb6R9kknBRab7cEP-SE&index=25
"I'm going to board that old black choo-choo..."
Bill Monroe — “Blue Moon of Kentucky”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ffhqOy_A8KM
John Denver — “Matthew”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wKPmoLxAqCM
“Gold was just a windy Kansas wheatfield,
And blue was just a Kansas summer sky.”
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