Memorial Day

"Thank you" just seems so damned inadequate.

But what else can we say?

Tonight's Music

Carrie Underwood - Just A Dream

It was two weeks after the day she turned 18
All dressed in white
Going to the church that night
She had his box of letter in the passenger seat
Six pins in a shoe
Something borrowed, something blue

And when the church doors opened up wide
She put her veil down trying to hide the tears
Oh she just couldnt believe it
She heard the trumpets from the military band
And the flowers fell out of her hands

Baby, why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go
I was counting on forever
Now I'll never know
I cant even breathe
It's like I'm, looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying, he's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream

The preacher man said lets bow our head and pray
Lord please lift his soul and heal this hurt
Then the congregation all stood up and sang the saddest song
That she ever heard
Then they handed her a folded up flag
And she held on to all she had left of him
And what couldve been
And then guns rang one last shot and it felt like a bullet in her heart

Baby, why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go
I was counting on forever
Now I'll never know
I cant even breathe
It's like I'm, looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying, he's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream

Baby, why'd you leave me
Why'd you have to go
I was counting on forever
Now I'll never know
Ooh, Ill never know
It's like I'm, looking from a distance
Standing in the background
Everybody's saying, he's not coming home now
This can't be happening to me
This is just a dream

Tonight's Music

Brad Paisley, Allison Krause -- Whiskey Lulliby

Tonight's Music

Little Big Town -- Boondocks

Tonight's Music

Another good hillbilly song, even if it is about Northern Michigan and from a former Rapper.

Another good hillbilly song. Perhaps it is having a president and congress who deserve absolutely no respect whatsoever that brings out the rebel in me.

Here are the lyrics:

Well my name's John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here
He only came to town about twice a year
He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad
He headed up the holler with everything he had
It's before my time but I've been told
He never came back from Copperhead Road

Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge
Bought it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge
Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side
Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
Well him and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumblin' sound
Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night
Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right
He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load
You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday
They draft the white trash first,'round here anyway
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
And I came home with a brand new plan
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico
I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
Well the D.E.A.'s got a chopper in the air
I wake up screaming like I'm back over there
I learned a thing or two from ol' Charlie don't you know
You better stay away from Copperhead Road

Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road
Copperhead Road

Tonight's Music

Here's a good music video for a hillbilly! I don't know if the moonshiner in this video is a real moonshiner or an actor (I suspect actor) but he captures the mountain flavor very well.

Enjoy.

BTY, this video was shot not far from where I live in the Smokey Mountain's Fontana Village.

Tonight's Music

The other day I was discussing the penultimate episode of the SciFi Channel's series Stargate Atlantis with a friend and we agreed that this episode was one of the best of the series and that we enjoyed the way they used the Johnny Cash's version of the Neil Diamond song Solitary Man in the episode. Well it seems that others agreed with us because scenes from the episode have been cut together with Mr. Cash's recording of Solitary Man into a very good music video.

Tonight's Music

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