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I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison.

It's one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

Sounds like a country song.

It is a country song.

It's one of the greatest country songs of all time by David Allen Coe, who died.

So he's in the news.

And I was just thinking about all the times I played his music working at country bars.

And he has a talking part in that song where he says,

I attempted to write the greatest ever country music song.

And to have the greatest country music song of all time.

You have to have your mom, prison, trucks, booze, etc.

And so the refrain on that part is

i was drunk the day my mom got out of prison so i went to pick her up in the rain but before i got

to the station in my pickup truck i got runned over by a damned old train and then you get into the

sing-along part and it is such a great bar song. Everybody's swaying and singing and then,

you know, going home with people they shouldn't have sex with. Oh, it's just fantastic.

Oh, that's wonderful. The great David Alco. Dead. So did he have mostly hits on his own? I know he,

he wrote, and I know you don't want to hear this. I don't. Talk about it. Take this job and shove it. Probably his biggest hit, a novelty song. Yeah, yeah, other regular songs. Did he write, have, like, hits through other people, like sometimes great songwriters do? I don't know if he didn't know. I don't know if he didn't know man he has a country bar staple i'll tell

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