Can you answer the following questions from some of country music's great storytellers?
1. Name the Highwayman and the profession:
a. " The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but I am still alive."
b. "And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed, but I am living still."
c. "They buried me in that grey tomb that knows no sound, but I am still around."
d. "Perhaps I'll become a Highway man again. Or I may simply be a single drop of rain. But I will remain. And I'll be back again, and again, and again, and again, and again…."
a. " The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but I am still alive."
b. "And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed, but I am living still."
c. "They buried me in that grey tomb that knows no sound, but I am still around."
d. "Perhaps I'll become a Highway man again. Or I may simply be a single drop of rain. But I will remain. And I'll be back again, and again, and again, and again, and again…."
2. What did Poncho bite and where did it end up?
3. Where did Lefty get the dough to go?
4. Who tells of how Poncho fell?
5. What can Lefty no longer do?
6. How many times did John Henry's daddy break jail?
7. What four things did John Henry's daddy tell him to learn to do?
8. What was the name of John Henry's girl?
9. Where did Sue run into his daddy, when was it, and what was his daddy doing when he found him?
10. Name three animals Sue compared his daddy to.
11. What did Johnny have for Sunday morning breakfast?
12. How long will the work'n man (of work'n man blues) work?
13. What's the one place where the work'n man will never be?
14. What's a big job for the work'n man?
15. Over how many dollars did Hank's buddy living in the city lose his life (bonus points if you can name what Hank would like to do to the killer)?
16. What have all of Hank Jr.'s friends done?
17. What can a country boy do all day and what can a country boy do from dusk till dawn?
18. What might get the good ol' boys and what will never get them?
19. What does the good ol' boy's mama not understand?
20. What makes Hank get all balled up inside and what does he love to hear?
1 comment:
1. (a) Willie Nelson, he was a highway man.
b. Kris Kristofferson, he was a sailor.
c.Waylon Jennings, he was a damn builder.
d.Johnny Cash, he flew a starship.
2.the dust that poncho bit down south, ended up in lefty's mouth.
3. ain't nobody knows.
4.the poets
5.lefty he can't sing the blues, all night long like he used to.
6.not sure
7.not sure
8. not sure
9.gburg, mid july, dealin stud
10.mule, crocodile, snake, dog
11.beer
12.long as his two hands are fit to use
13. welfare
14. gettin by with nine kids and a wife. (bonus point-written by kenny price who once lived on lacresta drive in florence.
15.43 dollars, he'd like to spit some beach nut in that dude's eye. i'd prefer skoal.
16. they have settle'd down. like mine.
17.he can plow a field all day long and catch catfish from dusk till dawn.
18.the mountian might get em but the law never will.
19.why they keep showin his hands but not his face on tv.
20.guitar sounds, playin i'm so lonesome i could cry
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