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Goober

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gopher said:
Old age Goober ~ happens to all of us.

;)
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I thought of this after I had replied - paraphrasing a C&W Song

I am not as quick as I once was but I can be as quick once as I ever was. -

Joy of getting old is you're still alive -
 
DaSleeper

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Goober said:
Another one -

YouTube - Dixie Chicks - Travelin' Soldier
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I had to put on my headphones.....those darn speakers on a notebook...
Here are the lyrics for those with a similar problem......good song...

"Travelin' Soldier"

Two days past eighteen
He was waiting for the bus in his army green
Sat down in a booth in a cafe there
Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair
He's a little shy so she gives him a smile
And he said would you mind sittin' down for a while
And talking to me,
I'm feeling a little low
She said I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go

So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
I got no one to send a letter to
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you

Chorus: I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone when the letter said
A soldier's coming home

So the letters came from an army camp
In California then Vietnam
And he told her of his heart
It might be love and all of the things he was so scared of
He said when it's getting kinda rough over here
I think of that day sittin' down at the pier
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
Don't worry but I won't be able to write for awhile

[Chorus]

One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said and the Anthem sang
A man said folks would you bow your heads
For a list of local Vietnam dead
Crying all alone under the stands
Was a piccolo player in the marching band
And one name read but nobody really cared
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

[Chorus x2]
 
Goober

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JLM

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Goober said:
As i have stated before - that boy can sing now can't he. Lots of good music out there. music like anything evolves, moves, goes back to its roots and again changes.

Though that Kid rock -Sheryl Crowe tune to me is an excellent piece of music. Good ole country -
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Yep, Sheryl is good.
 
damngrumpy

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Clint Black and people like that put some pretty good stuff together. Skip Ewing is
really good,, the fact is Skip is more of a song writer than singer. I like a lot of the
music that came out of the eighties and even the nineties. It is the stuff that came
out in the last three or four years that doesn't have a country feel to it that I pass on.
I don't hate it I just prefer to listen to something else.
Country will drift back to its roots soon enough, it will never go all the way back and
that is a good thing, as you can't have the good old days without some new cutting
edge days to get you there. I call it getting off the bus. That is when your music
taste changes as you grow older, the young people growing up have their own view
of what the future holds and in turn they will get off the bus and complain that the
material they are listening to is no longer country. I will say this the genre holds to a
strong principle, even the newest of artists, found country through the old material,
that stuck with them even when they changed the focus a bit. I got off the bus about
1992 or 93, and from then on I listened to less and less new country. I do like some
of the latest. One group I liked was One Trick Pony. another group in the past was
the original Highway 101. Michelle Wright and Patty Loveless is another.
There will always be great acts coming along, country always changes but it never
abandons its roots that I will say for it, it strays but it is still country and i have to
grudgingly admit that.
 
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