![]() ![]() I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country and western songīecause he hadn't said anything at all about momma or trains or trucks or prison or gettin' drunk ![]() ( spoken) Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that songĪnd he told me it was the perfect country and western song ![]() David Allan Coe even made fun of this, in a way, at the end of his song You Never Even Called Me by My Name: (This example is so popular, you can still buy a T-shirt.)Ĭountry music is known for lyrics where songwriters lament about things that are lost (lost loves who have walked away, lost fortunes that have been squandered away, etc.). (This is called backmasking.) Perhaps the most famous of these messages was one that said "Paul is dead" on the Beatles' song Number 9. In the 1960's, some music groups recorded tracks on songs that sounded like gibberish, but, if the record was played backward (remember, these were vinyl records, so you could place the record on your turntable, and the needle on the record, and turn the record with your fingertip), the gibberish would become ungarbled, and a clear message could be heard. ![]()
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