Yesterday, at school, a young Brazilian couple planning to come to study English with me told me they will be spending the next several months working down in Shreveport, Louisiana doing literature evangelism.
They are a really neat couple with good heads on their shoulders. I emailed them this song with lyrics below as a bit of "cultural information" for their trip. I love country music (not HOT Country, though), and as Barbara Mandrell put it years ago, "I was country when country wasn't cool!"
Well you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw them on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'till the morning light
Louisiana Saturday Night
Waitin' in the front yard, sittin' on a log
A single shot rifle and a one-eyed dog
Yonder come our kin-folk in the moonlight
Louisiana Saturday Night
Well you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw them on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'till the morning light
Louisiana Saturday Night
My brother Bill and my other brother Jack
Barrel full of beer and a possum in a sack
Fifteen kids in the front porch light
Louisiana Saturday Night
When the kin-folk leave and the kids get fed
Me and my woman gonna slip off to bed
Have a little fun when we turn out the lights
Louisiana Saturday Night
Well you get down the fiddle and you get down the bow
Kick off your shoes and you throw them on the floor
Dance in the kitchen 'till the morning light
Louisiana Saturday Night (x3)
You wouldn't believe this, but my love for country music began in Takoma Park, Maryland at my grandparents' house. They were tailors by trade, and in the summer they would set the little realistic transistor radio/light out on a small table on the street side of the house where it was sunny and would let it play country all day long.
Just to show how interesting and diverse all people are, my grandparents were Puerto Rican immigrants, but we never heard Salsa or anything like that. Just plain country music... I guess they just liked it..., and I loved it! A special hi to my sister and her girls. I know they will get a big kick out of this one. Enjoy!
p.s. To get an idea of how global country has become, check this Asian Line Dance. How do you think they would like "a possum in a sack"?
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neat...i don't remember grandma and grandpa playing country, but i remember grandma loved perry como! thanks for sharing the asian line dance...lol...that's diverse, alright!
xoxo
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