Thursday, August 18, 2011

"shut my mouth" - (?)


"Editing" my collection of music CDs: some I just don't listen to, and they're going to yard sale (someone else's - !)...
some I almost set on the "past history" line-up,
but then Listened To, and said
Hold it! There's a reason why I bought this!
And put it back in the Keep area...
The album (CD) Southern Star, by Alabama (1989) went that route:
1. Why do I have this?
2. Probably going...
3. Listen -
4. Keep.

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Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and shut my mouth,
Gone, gone with the wind,
There ain't nobody looking back again.

Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch,
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich,
Daddy was a veteran, a southern Democrat,
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that,

Sing it --
Song! song of the south...
[chorus]

Well somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell.
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall,
But Mr. Roosevelt's a-gonna save us all.

Well momma got sick and daddy got down,
The county got the farm and they moved to town.
Poppa got a job with the TVA,
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet.

Sing it --
Song -- song of the south,
Sweet potato pie and shut my mouth,
Gone -- gone with the wind,
There ain't nobody going back again...
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That album also has the songs "High Cotton" and "Barefootin'" and other great cuts...

-30-

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