[Denver Ditdat]

Sting weighs in:

"A doo-doo-doo, A dah-dah-dah,
That's all I have to say to you."

[MayflowerMadam]

Imus plays one sometimes with a title something like "I Never Had Trouble Finding Sad Lonely Women Until I Started Looking For Mine". Now THAT'S funny.

[BlueNgold]

What?
Huh?
I'm not certain I understand ....
Maybe if I have another generic beer before driving my 1972 Chevy truck over to my cousins house for some 'luvin' my head will clear up enough for me to figure this whole thing out ... if I can see through the smoke well enough to read it again that is.

[Grammy]

There are some true poets in country music.... Lyle Lovett for instance. "She's no Lady She's my Wife" is hysterical!

[wvnavyvet]

Then again you have to wonder, this past election, supposedly the most intellegent people voted for Al Gore. These people have attended the best schools money can buy, they live in the most expensive homes along the coast of this great nation and its largest cities. I mean he didn't win his own country music state of Tenn. Maybe his study was done using reverse IQ testology.

[Bad~Rodeo]

"YO Bin Laden....BITE ME!!!!

[okie01]

I'm not from Muskogee, but Dr. Solett is sure as hell Walkin' On The Fightin' Side Of Me!

Damn good thing he didn't say something snotty about Merle Haggard...or Willie and Waylon...or Hank By God Williams!

Actually, the poor sap doesn't seem to realize that the lyrics he's quoting are either a.) fabricated, for the purposes of self-satirization or b.) performed as satires. Country music has the grace to laugh at itself.

Something this overbearing twerp doesn't have the wit to recognize and would never dream of doing to himself. To think that a "professor of music" would have less grace and wit than Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys.

But, as a master of satire yourself, dead, you would recognize this. And that's why you posted it. Thanks for the laugh.

[Bad~Rodeo]

~IP"s showing....~s~

[E.G.C.]

Well, I like all kinds of music but I have some people who are big fans of country music and that, if it's true is sure going to be news to them.

[phillibuck]

from David Allan Coe's "One More Time"

One more time, I'd like to slip my p_____r in you
Even if it's just a quickie, I won't mind
No I won't get your new white dress dirty, baby
I'd just like to f__k you one more time.
heaven knows, that you've been a good daughter, baby
And I'd just like to f__k you one more time.
Lord I love it when you call me Daddy
And I'd just like to f__k you one more time

[maestro]

The Taliban loves 'Country Music', they use it like LSD.

[1Old Pro]

I suspect it has more to do with what the parents listen to.

[JoeSixPack1]

Wait,,, the IQ test in question must be writen in ebonics! So the results are biased!! And why are we allowing some maniac with too much time on his hands to get inside the minds of 1 thousand 6-year olds???? And did this guy ask his husband/boyfriend to help!~

[ravingnutter]

Well my response to him is a line from a newer country song...

"Kiss this...and I don't mean on my ruby red lips!"

[stboz]

"Ah keep mah pants up with a piece of twine.
Ah keep mah orms wyd open all th' time.
Ah keep mah self kwite willin' all thuh time...
Because yore mine, pleeze pull thuh twine!"

[avg_freeper]

Bumpin for the greatest philosopher of our time.

Johnny Cash

The man is simply a Genius.

[Aurelius]

I recently had to drive 1200 miles from southwestern Pennsylvania to southern Louisiana. I had to do the same thing a few years ago but my cassete player was working then. That was a piece of cake. When you can listen to music of your own choice, driving all day is painless. My first choice would be Hayden string quartets, after that Gregorian chants. With the player not working , and forced to depend on radio I found only two acceptable choices: country music or conservative talk radio. What appalled me about the country music was the lyrics - you don't hear Roy Acuff or even Willy Nelson but all these modern country songs. The music is fine but the lyrics are inane. A friend of mine once said: "The catholic mass and italian opera are alike in this: their beauty can be most appreciated by those who don't know the language in which thet are sung. The same goes for contemporary country music. I would have been quite happy listening to those country music stations on my drive south if only the songs had been sung in Italian.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

And a member of his own research team, who asked to remain anonymous, told Weekly World News, "He hates hick music with a passion."

Been there, done that. By that, I mean I once studied music at the college level and all the professors were music SNOBS. They hated anything newer than Stravinsky (i.e. almost all 20th century music)..... or so they said - in class. I, however, found out that the head of the Choral Dept. had played backup guitar in an Elvis movie in the late 1960's, so I used it as blackmail to get good grades for the last two years of my undergrad studies (sort of kidding, sort of not :-).

[rightisright]

And at this point it's time to revive one of my favorite threads on Free Republic (even bookmarked it):

Top 25 Country Song Titles of All Time

In these times, a little laugh really helps.

[nmh]

LOL! I'm not sure which is worse for kids, rock n roll or country music. One emphasizes sex, cheating and sorrow and the other emphasizes drugs, free love, no values ... heck neither one is good. We stay with classical music and avoid the pitfalls of both.