AMERICAN Music.
Pre-Beatles; pre-Rock; post-Beatnik; a little post-'55-Rock & Roll . . .
Kick-ass American music . . .
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(So, why don't you folks listen, now, to the GREATEST of our Grand Ol' Opry* stars:
The Texas Troubadour: ERNEST TUBB, with one of his old favorites: "Drivin' Nails in My Coffin.")
ERNEST?
All right; here we go . . .
My SWEETHEART has gone, and I'm so lonely
She said that she and I were through;
So I started up drinkin' for pastime;
Drivin' nails in my coffin over YOU.
I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin
Every time I drink a bottle of booze;
I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin
Lordy, drivin' those nails over you.
Aw, here's LEON, man . . .
All right . . .
Now, ever since the day that we parted
I've been so sad and so blue;
I'm always thinkin' of you, LOVE
And I just can't quit drinkin' that ol' booze.
I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin
Every time I drink a bottle of booze;
I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin
Lordy, drivin' those nails over you.
Aw, . . . Here's BUDDY EMMONS* . . .
Now, YOU turned me down,
You don't want me;
There's nothing--now--I can lose;
I'm just drivin' those nails in my coffin;
And worrying, my darling, over YOU.
I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin
Every time I drink a bottle of booze;
I'm just drivin' nails in my coffin
Lordy, drivin' those nails over you.
HEY! YA!
{Thank you, boys; thank you, Tommy . . .}
That's FANTASTIC!
That goes way back to 1944: Remember?
Yes, it sure did . . .
That's goin' a long ways back, in't it? . . .
That's when you were a teen-ager, wasn't it, Ernest?
Ya, 'bout like Tinker Tubb . . . Ernest, Jr. sittin' over there . . .
We intended to get to, uh, Ernest, Jr. (little tinker) to come in and visit with us today, but I don't believe scale's* big enough for him here . . .
No, he said the scale was a little low . . . So he's not gonna work like that . . .
You really did that song fine, Ernest;
In fact, uh, I don't know if many can sing 'em like that . . .
Thank you, Tommy.
Drivin' nails in my coffin . . . You know what?
It was LOUD, anyhow . . .
Yes, it was . . .
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* -------- NOTE: "OPRY" = "The Grand Ol' Opry", which was a radio program/theater stage that started in 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee, and was the #1 top place for country musicians to play and be seen--from '25 until the '90s . . . although it is still going strong today.
* -------- NOTE: "OPRY" is a play off of the word, "OPERA."
(If you don't know what the word "opera" is/means, welp . . . look it up, as our betters used to say . . .)
* -------- NOTE: "SCALE" = "SCALE PAY" = The MONEY paid to "talent" to appear on TV/FILM/THEATER/RADIO: based on one's relative entertainment importance within a given production/performance. --------
* ******* NOTE: When BUDDY EMMONS is playing that horizontal-looking guitar thing . . . that's a "PEDAL STEEL GUITAR."
There are foot-pedals that he is messing with--with his feet.
('Tis harder than it looks . . .) ********
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