In my youth I was fond of acts of irony and some stupidity.
Example:
The flood of Tulsa in 1984 was the worst recorded.
My Mom was worried about my brother, who took off and went to hang out some friend of his.
She asked I look for him.
I took off to go see if he was at this friends house, on the other side of town but, found travel to be complicated and dangerous.
I just couldn’t get anywhere.
Streets I didn’t know where below grade had only the roofs of cars exposed.
After an hour of trying several street after street, I gave up. It really was a hopeless excersise.
I went to my Mom’s house and informed her that it seems impossible to to travel the streets under these conditions and we should just pray for his safety.
While waiting out the storm and flood and old song popped into my head.
I called the local radio station to request and old Johnny Cash song.
They inquired what the song is and I simply said “Five Feet High and Rising”.
They called me choice name and hung up on me.
However, they announce some jerk had requested this song and while they didn’t name me, I was infamously famous for an hour.
A while later, they announced many others had thought the song would be of some levity given the situation and they actually played it.
If I recall, the story is based on an actual event Johnny Cash experienced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fpbCLNyPUA
“Five Feet High and Rising” is one example of unusual song key modulation. Another example is “I Walk the Line.” Both were written by Johnny Cash in the 1950’s, before “Truck Driver Gear Change” became a songwriter cliche composition method.