tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post7838317098143464289..comments2024-03-29T10:49:38.462-04:00Comments on PowerPop: Tales from the CryptkeeperNYMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-45742133780365994202007-10-02T23:06:00.000-04:002007-10-02T23:06:00.000-04:00My contact with country music comes in the grocery...My contact with country music comes in the grocery store. I suspect the employees have negotiated a tradeoff with Geezer Rock. Anyway, that was the first place I heard this POS. I made a mental note of a lyric and googled it when I get home. This is my "favorite" bit: <BR/><BR/><I>If you're reading this <BR/>Half way around the world <BR/>I won't be there to see the birth of our little girl <BR/>I hope she looks like you <BR/>I hope she fights like me <BR/>Stand up for the innocent and the weak </I><BR/><BR/>Mr McGraw only recently turned forty, so he has and has had ample time to go join the actual fight to defend the innocent and the weak. Nice touch, praying that his daughter will grow up to fight in a quagmire.<BR/><BR/>If I ever again hear the lyrics to the song in the voice of the guy who is doing his part to fight terr'rists by keeping the Camaro he bought from a soldier's widow all shiny and cherry, I'll pass it along.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-58222185428495652012007-10-02T22:22:00.000-04:002007-10-02T22:22:00.000-04:00For some reason I thought Brooke's stuff was what ...For some reason I thought Brooke's stuff was what Benjamin Britten used in his famous "War Requiem," but I just googled it, and you're right about Brooke having been superceded by Owen -- Britten's piece is a setting of Owen.<BR/><BR/>In any case, I'd be speechless too if I turned on my car radio and heard Tim McGraw chanelling "the Soldier" from some demented corner of the Bizarro World.<BR/><BR/>Wow...steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.com