09-20-2011, 11:27 PM
An old pickup truck
means you're down on your luck
anymore
and dirty straw hats
are a thing of the past
anymore
they changed all the words,
but the cowgirls, they all sing along
Tell me who's gonna ride us away,
when the last cowboy's gone?
Jamey Johnson
Sorry, Leanne. I thought of this as soon as I read your poem. A lot of the things you wanted to leave out of your poem are my favorite things about cowboys. I like the way you made me think about Country & Western music being based on the mythology of the cowboy himself. An unfeeling, driven soldier of the plains that loves and leaves without regret and kills without fear. That's what country music is about, to me. (Most of the Pop country is shit, just like all the other pop)
The song I quoted is about how the music has become so cliché and the legend of cowboy has faded, being replaced by symbolizing him through images like pickup trucks and of course . . . the hats.
means you're down on your luck
anymore
and dirty straw hats
are a thing of the past
anymore
they changed all the words,
but the cowgirls, they all sing along
Tell me who's gonna ride us away,
when the last cowboy's gone?
Jamey Johnson
Sorry, Leanne. I thought of this as soon as I read your poem. A lot of the things you wanted to leave out of your poem are my favorite things about cowboys. I like the way you made me think about Country & Western music being based on the mythology of the cowboy himself. An unfeeling, driven soldier of the plains that loves and leaves without regret and kills without fear. That's what country music is about, to me. (Most of the Pop country is shit, just like all the other pop)
The song I quoted is about how the music has become so cliché and the legend of cowboy has faded, being replaced by symbolizing him through images like pickup trucks and of course . . . the hats.