I was born...

Cafe Society
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I have to strongly disagree. If your idea of current country is Faith Hill, Tim McGraw and similar Nashvegas pablum, then I can see your distaste. But that’s ignoring the real country scene you can find in places like the Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas or Love and War in Texas in Plano. Check out the music stream from [KHYI**.

Have you heard the latest [url=“http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=123606&highlight=flatlanders”]Flatlanders](http://www.khyi.com) album? What about any Hank III, Macon Grayson, Owen Temple or Bruce Robinson? If you haven’t, then your missing out.

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Check out the music stream from KHYI.

Have you heard the latest Flatlanders album?

[sub]What a difference a closing tag makes.[/sub]

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…six-gun in my hand,
Behind the gun, I’ll make my final stand…

That’s why they call me
Bad company, and I can’t deny…

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…in a southern town,
I can’t take this whole run-around.
I was raised here and here I’ll die,
Underneath this Georgia sky…
-Dreams So Real, Gloryline
…to lead a double life,
Of murder, strife, and misery…
-Liz Phair, Perfect World
…too late.
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
-Bob Dylan, Simple Twist of Fate

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Sorry, Homebrew. I should have said what’s on country stations isn’t worth listening to.

Your point is very well taken.

Still like Lefty Frizzell, though.

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…by the river in a little tent
Oh, just like the river, I been running ever since
It’s been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
Oh, yes it will, look it here

A Change Gonna Come, by a thousand people, done best by Sam Cooke and Otis Redding.

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Vincent, will you teach me how to paint?
Theresa, will I ever be a saint?
John, I really think your songs are great.
I was born too late.

“Born Too Late” - The Clarks

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…to be wild! -Steppenwolfe

(Geez, I can’t believe that I’m the first to get that one…)

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… on the floor! - The Make Up. Actually, every verse from this great song starts with the phrase 'I was born …" giving a different important date in history. What a great band.

Also …

  • Captain Beefheart’s Sure Nuff N Yes I Do (see here for the full lyrics, as best as they’ve been deciphered).
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I was born to love volcanoes.
—The Dead Milkmen

I was born in a lighthouse, my mother was the sea.
—They Might Be Giants

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…about ten thousand years ago
There ain’t nothing in this world that I don’t know
I saw Peter, Paul and Moses playing Ring Around the Roses
And I’ll whup the guy what says it isn’t so

—Woody Guthrie