Thursday, April 14, 2011

Are the Good Times Really Over?


Painted on the window at Legend's Corner in Nashville.
Click to make it bigger, it's a pretty cool picture.
The other day I was driving down the road when I came to the realization that I have been in school for seventeen of my twenty-two years alive on this earth.  Seventeen years...and this semester has been one of the hardest for me in terms of efforts put forth studying, writing papers, and doing other homework assignments.  I haven't really--and still don't really-- have the time to blog like I would wish to.  I've got some concert reviews, a few country music book reviews, and just general rantings that I am bursting to type out here when school is out.  In the mean time I'll just get back to writing my three papers I have due in the next two weeks that total a whopping forty pages. Whoo-hooo!

Recently I purchased a CD by ole Hag that had this song on it.  I couldn't help but think that the lyrics still apply to some things in today's society. Give them a look and the song a listen if you feel like moseying over to YouTube. :)

I wish a buck was still silver.
It was back when the country was strong.
Back before Elvis; before the Vietnam war came along.
Before The Beatles and "Yesterday",
When a man could still work, and still would.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?
Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?
With no kind of chance for the Flag or the Liberty bell.
Wish a Ford and a Chevy,
Could still last ten years, like they should.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

I wish coke was still cola,
And a joint was a bad place to be.
And it was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV.
Before microwave ovens,
When a girl could still cook and still would.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?
With no kind of chance for the Flag or the Liberty bell.
Wish a Ford and a Chevy,
Could still last ten years, like they should.
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?

Stop rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell.
Stand up for the Flag and let's all ring the Liberty bell.
Let's make a Ford and a Chevy,
Still last ten years, like they should.
The best of the free life is still yet to come,
The good times ain't over for good.

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