From 30,000 feet above I look upon the city of El Paso
What do you call a guy who wears boxers?
A boxer.
What do you call a guy who wears Jockey shorts?
A jockey.
What do you call a guy who doesn’t wear underwear?
Just a swangin’!
You guys don’t know how good you got it, at least your soundtracks are only make believe and entirely in your head. My Mom is on some sentimental Conway Twitty jag today and I am forced (no escape, no egress) to listen to the best of Conway Twitty in constant rotation.
The very definition of going out of my mind is hearing Conway’s Russian version of Hello Darlin’ (Privet Radost)* for the third time in so many hours.
*Seems he recorded the Russian version for an Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975 and it was played in outer space.
Between this thread and Mr. Twitty, I’ll have to resort to the Tennessee Mind Wipe tonight (12 pack of Bud.)
A Russian version of “Hello Darlin’?” Sung by Conway himself? Wow, the mind boggles.
ON the other hand, it could be worse. You could be lyin’ there with Linda on your mind.
Is she wearing “tight fittin’ jeans”?
Down in a West Village bar called El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican boy…
I can see her lookin’ fast in her faded jeans
She’s a hard lovin’ woman, left me feelin’ mean
More appropriate would have been,
“I could tell you’ve never been this far before BUM, BUM, BUM”
Well:
Money talks
But it don’t sing and dance
And it don’t walk
And long as I can have you here with me
I’d much rather be
Forever in blue jeans
Um…neither this or the Gordon Lightfoot song you responded to are country songs. Let’s try to be consistant shall we people? 
One thing I never understood about this song.
If he’s desperately in love with Felina the Mexican girl {slut, sneeze}
why does he say later in the song
“I have it make to Rose’s back door”
Not only that but in the Haggard classic.
Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp
Sister played the ringing tamborine
Mama couldn’t hear our pretty music
but **she read our lips and helped the family sing
**
She did huh? Try to imagine how that sounded.
What’s sIgn language for “MOM!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!”
BTW I played in a country/country rock band up and down the east coast for a few years. When “Swangin” was on the charts we had to do it twice a night at least because of requests. The same goes for “I wanna Bop with you Baby” by Dan Seals and of course the infamous, Achy Breaky Heart.
Sheesh
Elvira, Swangin, Achy Breaky Heart and a couple of others made it into a medley we announced as
“Obnoxious SOngs that Made it”
FTR, “Forever in Blue Jeans” went to #73 on the Country chart back in 1979.
So there, nyah!
Really? Was that the Neal Diamond version?
I also noticed I responded to Sylvia’s Mother which I don’t think was country hit {but maybe}
So not only am I a hypocryte, I’m a wrong hypocryte.
And I played music for a living :o
Yes, it was the Neil Diamond version.
Dr. Hook did hit the Country Top 100 (several times), but not with that song.
She can’t help it if she’s made that way
She’s not to blame if they look her way
She ain’t really tryin’ to cause a scene
It just comes naturally,
No, the girl can’t help it
Down on the corner
By the traffic light
Everybody’s lookin’
As she goes by
They turn their heads and they
Watch her 'til she’s gone
Lord, have mercy, Baby’s got her blue jeans on
Heaven help us, Baby’s got her blue jeans on
From Donna Fargo:
“Good morning morning
Hello sunshine
Wake up sleepy head
Why’d we move that bojangle clock so far away from the bed
Just one more minute
That’s why we moved it
One more hug will do
Do you love waking up next to me
As much as I love waking up next to you”
Funny face, I love you
Funny face, I need you
These are the sweetest words I’ve ever heard
Funny face, don’t leave me
Funny face, believe me
My whole world’s wrapped up in you
Well, I was drunk the day my Momma got outta prison
And I went to pick her up in the pourin rain
But, before I could get to the station in my beat up pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old train