Country Music Puzzles Me.
By Larry Linville
How can a country singer have a name like Urban.
If he lived in the middle-east, would he wear a turban?
Why does a white singer have a last name of Black?
Is it an explanation for what reason seems to lack?
How can a man named Paisley dress in colors drab
Instead of having wild colors to make him look so fab?
And when the Thunder Rolls and Garth’s world get shook
Can he still be in low places with a last name like Brooks?
If Carrie sang a song while on a stage she stood
Can she still take the wheel and be Underwood?
If Willie went to wrestling and a Bar-B-Que
would he be a full Nelson when he was through?
If these other names are backward can we really wait
to see if that singer named George is really Strait?
© Copyright 2007 Larry Linville (UN: larrylinville at Writing.Com).
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Cute! I didn't realize you were so learned on country music. IRT the comment about Clint Black...the same could be asked about Berry White. But I think my favorite was the part about Willie Nelson.
I always thought if I became a singer, and changed my name to Johnny Moneyorder, I could team up with Johnny Cash, and Johnny Paycheck.........
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