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[Midnight Rider]

Diva and I are going to see one of my all time favorite people....John Prine.  The concert is in an old theatre here in B'ham, built in the late 20's...beautiful venue.  For those who don't know Prine, he's written so many songs that have been performed by so many different artists, it makes your head spin.  Most of them are humorous in one way or the other, and almost all tell a great story.  One of my favorite:

Illegal Smile
©John Prine

When I woke up this morning, things were lookin' bad
Seem like total silence was the only friend I had
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won
And it was twelve o'clock before I realized
That I was havin' ... no fun

Chorus:
But fortunately I have the key to escape reality
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone
No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun

Last time I checked my bankroll,
It was gettin' thin
Sometimes it seems like the bottom
Is the only place I've been
I Chased a rainbow down a one-way street... dead end
And all my friends turned out to be insurance salesmen

Repeat Chorus:

Well, I sat down in my closet with all my overalls
Tryin' to get away
From all the ears inside my walls
I dreamed the police heard
Everything I thought... what then?
Well I went to court
And the judge's name was Hoffman

Ah but fortunately I have the key to escape reality
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone
No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun
Well done, hot dog bun, my sister's a nun

And another: Some humans ain't human

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind
You open up their hearts
And here's what you'll find
A few frozen pizzas
Some ice cubes with hair
A broken Popsicle
You don't want to go there

Some humans ain't human
Though they walk like we do
They live and they breathe
Just to turn the old screw
They screw you when you're sleeping
They try to screw you blind
Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind

You might go to church
And sit down in a pew
Those humans who ain't human
Could be sittin' right next to you
They talk about your family
They talk about your clothes
When they don't know their own ass
From their own elbows

Jealousy and stupidity
Don't equal harmony
Jealousy and stupidity
Don't equal harmony

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

Spoken:
Have you ever noticed
When you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon
That'll come chit on your hood

Or you're feeling your freedom
And the world's off your back
Some cowboy from Texas
Starts his own war in Iraq

Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind
They lie through their teeth
With their head up their behind
You open up their hearts
And here's what you'll find
Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

[HogBreath]

Grandpa was a carpenter---built houses stores and banks..Chain smoked camel cigarettes and hammered nails in planks!

If you had extra tickets..I'd just about go with ya

[HogBreath]

I got to see John Prine here in Paducah a few years ago. Thing is, I had a drink or five too many and had to leave early.

Oh Daddy won't ya take me back to Mulenburg county
Down by the Green river..Where Paradise lays
I'm sorry my son, you're too late in askin
Mr Peabody's coal train, done hauled it away.

[JesterDecor]

No wonder we get along with ya'll so well. He's one of Ken and my favorites! We saw him in a Paducah a couple years ago. I'll let Ken tell the rest of that story! 

Hope ya have a blast!! And I hope he plays Dear Abby...heard it so many times and laugh everytime and sing along!! Gotta love him!

[Midnight Rider]

And I just gotta copy and paste this one...

Sam Stone
©John Prine

Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

Chorus:
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Mmm....

Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

Repeat Chorus:

Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G. I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill.

[Midnight Rider]

No wonder we get along with ya'll so well. He's one of Ken and my favorites! We saw him in a Paducah a couple years ago. I'll let Ken tell the rest of that story! 

Hope ya have a blast!! And I hope he plays Dear Abby...heard it so many times and laugh everytime and sing along!! Gotta love him!

You can't help but have fun at a Prine show...he'll make you laugh, then make you cry, all with that wry grin on his face.  I've seen him half a dozen times...some of those times I don't remember so good, but always had an absolute blast.  I had the privilege of seeing him once with Bonnie Raitt (he wrote Angel From Montgomery)...that was one to remember.

Hell, Ken...if I'd known you guys liked him, I'd have bought you two tickets.  You'd love this place he's performing in...I'll drink one for both of you, or two for each of you...hell, I'll just get drunk for the both of you...

[HogBreath]

i just downloaded a song onto the GPS unit. This was also done by Conway and Loretta

You're the reason our baby is ugly.

Well, you're the reason I'm ridin' around on re-capped tires
And you're the reason I'm hangin' our clothes outside on wires
And you're the reason our kids are ugly, little darlin'
Oh, but looks ain't everything
And money ain't everything
But I love you just the same.

Well, you're the reason I changed to beer from soda pop
And you're the reason I never get to go to the beauty shop
And you're the reason our kids are ugly, little darlin'
Oh, but looks ain't everything
And money ain't everything
But I love you just the same.

I guess that we won't ever have, everything we need
'Cause when we get ahead, it's got a double mouth to feed.

And that's the reason my good looks, and my figure is gone
And that's the reason that I ain't got no hair to comb
And you're the reason our kids are ugly, little darlin'
Oh, but looks ain't everything
And money ain't everything
But I love you just the same.

Why in the devil don't you go and shave,
or put on clean pair of pants?
But look at yourself. I wish you'd take
them curlers outta your hair and go put on a little
make-up and get outta that housecoat before supper.
Well let me tell you somethin' .  Considering everything
that I went through today, I look like a movie star.
Yeah, Ruth Buzzley.
Thank you.
Besides that, all of our kids took after your part of the family anyways.
Oh they did, huh? What about the ones that's bald?
Well, I guess you could say they took after me...

[HogBreath]

You can't help but have fun at a Prine show...he'll make you laugh, then make you cry, all with that wry grin on his face.  I've seen him half a dozen times...some of those times I don't remember so good, but always had an absolute blast.  I had the privilege of seeing him once with Bonnie Raitt (he wrote Angel From Montgomery)...that was one to remember.

Hell, Ken...if I'd known you guys liked him, I'd have bought you two tickets.  You'd love this place he's performing in...I'll drink one for both of you, or two for each of you...hell, I'll just get drunk for the both of you...

Whatta guy! You're the best Terry. LOL

[HogBreath]

and I've just got to post this one:

Hello In There
©John Prine

We had an apartment in the city,
Me and Loretta liked living there.
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown,
A life of their own left us alone.
John and Linda live in Omaha,
And Joe is somewhere on the road.
We lost Davy in the Korean war,
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore.

Chorus:
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger,
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day.
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello."

Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more,
She sits and stares through the back door screen.
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen.
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy,
We worked together at the factory.
But what could I say if asks "What's new?"
"Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do."

Repeat Chorus:

So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes,
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello."

[JesterDecor]

You can't help but have fun at a Prine show...he'll make you laugh, then make you cry, all with that wry grin on his face.  I've seen him half a dozen times...some of those times I don't remember so good, but always had an absolute blast.  I had the privilege of seeing him once with Bonnie Raitt (he wrote Angel From Montgomery)...that was one to remember.

Hell, Ken...if I'd known you guys liked him, I'd have bought you two tickets.  You'd love this place he's performing in...I'll drink one for both of you, or two for each of you...hell, I'll just get drunk for the both of you...

You are a true and fine friend Terry!! 

We had a blast. I did buy the DVD available for sale that night so Ken could catch up on what he missed! 

[HogBreath]

and how could I not post the national song of Kentucky?

Paradise
©John Prine

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

Chorus:
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Repeat Chorus:

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

Repeat Chorus:

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

Repeat Chorus:

[JesterDecor]

He didn't write this one apparently, but it makes me laugh till I cry! 


(We're Not) The Jet Set
�Bobby Braddock
(vocals with Iris DeMent)

    By a fountain back in Rome I fell in love with you
    In a small cafe in Athens You said you loved me too
    And it was April in Paris when I first held you close to me
    Rome, Georgia, Athens, Texas And Paris, Tennessee

    No, we're not the jet set
    We're the old Chevro-let set
    There's no Riviera
    In Festus, Missouri
    And you won't find Onassis
    In Mullinville, Kansas
    No, we're not the jet set
    We're the old Chevro-let set
    But ain't we got love

    No, We're not the jet set
    We're the old Chevro-let set
    Our steak and martinis
    Is draft beer with weenies
    Our Bach and Tchaikovsky
    Is Haggard and Husky
    No, we're not the jet set
    We're the old Chevro-let set
    But ain't we got love

    No, We're not the jet set
    We're the old Chevro-let set
    The Prine and DeMent set
    Ain't the flaming suzette set
    Our Bach and Tchaikovsky
    Is Haggard and Husky
    We're the old Chevro-let set
    But ain't we got love

[Midnight Rider]

and I've just got to post this one:

Hello In There
©John Prine

We had an apartment in the city,
Me and Loretta liked living there.
Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown,
A life of their own left us alone.
John and Linda live in Omaha,
And Joe is somewhere on the road.
We lost Davy in the Korean war,
And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore.

Chorus:
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger,
And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day.
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello."

Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more,
She sits and stares through the back door screen.
And all the news just repeats itself
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen.
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy,
We worked together at the factory.
But what could I say if asks "What's new?"
"Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do."

Repeat Chorus:

So if you're walking down the street sometime
And spot some hollow ancient eyes,
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello."

That's one not to forget, Ken...

[Midnight Rider]

JD...I'll take draft beer and weenies any time, girl!!

[HogBreath]

You can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to..Terry's an old redneck hippy.