From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017070410112440925-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > cowboy songs ????    What is that ?   Haggard and Jones never sang any   
   > songs about sitting on a horse playing a dime store guitar and singing to   
   > the moon.  His songs, as were most of the songs we did, about 2nd   
   > generation city people. The sons and daughters of people displaced by WWII   
   > and forced by economics to move into the cities to work in those old   
   > factories. Our fathers grew up on family farms. We grew up in factory   
   > towns.  And not particularly happy about it.  Songs about bars, and   
   > wanting to go " home ".   
      
   My father always always felt about being a cowboy the way I feel about   
   aviation and being a pilot - he got a taste of the life and preferred it to   
   anything else, so naturally he was also into cowboy songs, in other words,   
   western, rather than country ;)   
      
   > Country isn't Cowboy music.   
      
   No it's sure not, which is why the Blues Brothers movie was right when the   
   lady at 'Bob's Country Bunker' said they had both kinds, country AND western   
   )   
      
   > Bluegrass is a whole nutter thing from " country ".   
      
   Only a different *type* insomuch as 'country' can mean, *this* country,   
   and/or it can also mean *not the city*, and bluegrass definitely qualifies   
   for the  most part as not the city, and for that matter so can western i.e.   
   cowboy songs...I guess it's all in the 'labeling' ;)   
      
   > They say we're all immigrants. Of course that's so generalized it's   
   > meaningless.   
      
   Naturally, because 'they' always say nonsense like  that ;)   
      
   > My mom's family was here in the early 1700's, pre Revolutionary War. I had   
   > ancestors that fought in that one.  My dads side had people on the Lewis   
   > and Clark expedition. And one of dads side married a full up Cherokee   
   > woman. Records of his side in Virginia fighting indians. How far back do   
   > you need to go ?  Does before this was a country count ?   
      
   How about this part of the planet? ;) And you sure go tracing things   
   back...but I've never been into that myself because to me, it's totally   
   meaningless.   
      
   > Pre that, Scotland back to the 1300's.  Or Germany so far back I don't   
   > even know. So, yes my ancestors came from Europe.  Wonder why they left   
   > :-)   
      
   Why does anyone leave some old place for some new place? They want something   
   better!   
      
   > Our current government is all about destroying the country.   
      
   Going on for a very long way back now.   
      
   > The one worlders believe that to progress we have to dissolve nations and   
   > form one big government.   
      
   The simple word for it is DEPERSONALIZATION, where the final stage is to   
   dissolve the Individual Person - but the very idea of  it is a LIE which   
   canNOT ever work, although it most certainly is Proven to further make a   
   Hell on earth! Got a song about that too, from the work in progress 4th   
   still untitled album:   
      
   1. I'm Not The One   
      
   verse1   
   promises and offers claim to get you where you'd like to be going   
   in their shiny one owner used car   
   just don't think about going very far   
   or notice every time they're talking how it always seems to be snowing   
   unless you're blind and believe what they say   
   otherwise make some tracks ski away   
      
   chorus1   
   cause they're after fools to deceive as they wish   
   who'll stupidly invite their own peril   
   a wayward collection of unwary fish   
   about to be shot in their barrel   
   but when they get to me I'll be sure to refuse   
   time to start spoiling their fun   
   I don't see why I should have to take that abuse   
   so I won't go along I'm not the one   
   I'm not the one   
      
   verse2   
   ever hammering on us to conform to depersonalization   
   to pretend not to notice or see   
   throw away individuality   
   mindless zombie robots being molded for manipulation   
   with no presence of thought for to know   
   the right way to Independently go   
      
   chorus2   
   that's why it's all going down like they have it planned   
   with so many being bullied to choose it   
   instead of finding courage and taking a stand   
   for our Freedom before we all lose it   
   that's why I won't ever be a part of their game   
   there's no new thing under the sun   
   another fraud and rip-off by any other name   
   and I won't play cause I'm not the one   
      
   bridge   
   no I'm not the one   
   I'm not the one   
   I'm not the one to be an unwary snoozer   
   cause I'm wide awake watching each move they make   
   and I'm resolved not to end up a loser   
   I'm not the one   
   I'm not the one   
   I'm not the one to stand for any unfreeing   
   instead I'll resist and always assist   
   in every way to get the Enemy fleeing   
   cause I'm not the one   
   I'm not the one   
      
   verse3   
   deceivers need a lot of fools to help in setting all of their   
   fires   
   to believe all their phony show and tell   
   make this world a dystopian Hell   
   run by a pack of the most vile wicked shameless liars   
   imposing their tyrannical will   
   growing stronger but only until   
      
   chorus3   
   we make it clear that we're not gonna take any more   
   this time by actions not yakking   
   cause it's time to fight and start winning this war   
   to prevail and send the Enemy packing   
   that's why they ain't ever takin' me for a ride   
   I'll never swallow their poison   
   for what they've planned is that we all commit suicide   
   but I'm not fallin' for it I'm not the one   
   no I'm not the one   
      
   > Maybe that's what the aliens are waiting for. Maybe they said, we won't   
   > come and help you until you come together as a planet and have one ruling   
   > body.   
      
   We're all Different, pure and simple, therefore NOT THE SAME, and the  only   
   aliens to worry about are the ones doing the invading right now!   
      
   > Or maybe they aren't our friends at all and just want to harvest pody   
   > parts ?   
      
   Although I'm a total "Trekkie", I do have other favorite 'sci-fi' programs   
   too, particularly The Outer Limits, the  original series of course, and one   
   of my very favorite episodes is "The Architects Of Fear", which is about   
   this very subject.   
      
   > We had a chance.  It's called the music business. Not the music " give the   
   > kid a chance ".   
      
   The root of all Evil part, the  Love of Filthy Lucre, as so-called   
   'business', is what Destroys the Art of Music, which means if you're not   
   given the chance, TAKE IT!!!   
      
   > I didn't know how it would evolve at the beginning.   
      
   So often, so Tragically, even when it's clear that things are deteriorating,   
   nothing is done about it until it all collapses.   
   Far better to respond Instantly rather than waiting for disaster.   
      
   > Funny, that's how I saw it.   
      
   If he didn't need your guitar and wanted to use it anyway, he was playing   
   some silly, Stupid game and it was good that you didn't go along with him!   
      
   > Again, I have to ask, you don't get out much, do you ?   
      
   Sure I do, but I'm a bit more careful in Choosing *where* I go!   
   I believe in making Careful Choices.   
      
   > not paying attention.   
      
      
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