I lease twenty acres and one Jenny mule
From the Alabama trust
Half of the cotton, a third of the corn
Ya get a handful of dust
Chorus:
And we can not have all things to please us
No matter how we try
Until we've all gone to Jesus
We can only wonder why
I had a daughter called her Annabelle
She's the apple of my eye
Tried to give her something like I never had
I didn't want to ever hear her cry
Chorus
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YouTube - Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis - Two Men With The Blues
Willie Nelson is one of the all-time old-school legends. His career took off in Nashville in the late 50s when he wrote Crazy for Patsy Cline and a string of other hits such as Elvis Presley and You Were Always on My Mind. In the mid-60s, Willie’d had enough of Nashville and left for Austin, Texas where he recorded Red Headed Stranger with his road band and established himself as one the original musical rebels and founded the genre now known as alt country. The Anti-Nashville (someone once called Garth Brooks the Anti-Hank). Read more »
My following article appeared in yesterday’s edition of Crikey: Read more »
I think Liberal Backbencher Chris Pearce may have done us all a big favour by taking the petrol price populism just that little bit too far this morning. He went out on a limb calling for his own party to double its ridiculous 5c fuel excise cut to 10c and promptly got smacked down by members of his own party as well as others. Read more »
Assorted David Bowie clips, in chronological order.
1968: “When I’m Five” (from the short film Love You Til Tuesday)
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Five three* hundred words a day for a month. Can I do it? Well probably. Is it too ambitious. Ambitious? Who? Me? Heh. Don't make me laugh. But will I do it? Hmmm. Good question. One of the things about having a blog is that when one makes proclamations of intent on it, one announces that intent to the world at large, and so not doing so makes one look well . . . unreliable, or a birk, or both. Read more »
Posted against Dead or Alive's You spin me right round
My Mom always goes on about how I used to do a dance to this in a massive nappy. Just thought you should know. I couldn't do it anymore that's for sure.
As we say a sad farewell to Kerry Nettle and the Democrats (you can read Bob’s valedictory speech to the Dems here and we’ll post Kerry’s soon), we saw a fascinating signpost today to the interesting place that the new Senate will be when we come back from winter recess in late August. Read more »
The new face of American justice?
Two Florida teenagers who threw a drink in a drive-thru worker’s face have been forced by a judge to post an apology on YouTube. But will the punishment work?
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