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3/4/04 E THEY CALL IT COUNTRY MUSIC Dirt Roads Proj


A new juke joint open just out of town and they be playin country music when the sun went down

marquis read got a live band now wont you come and listen to the new country jam

so I picked up my baby and I took her to see the show


They wasnt playin Johnny Cash's old train songs and they damn sure wasnt playin old George Jones

Hank Williams wasnt moanin the blues some where between that and them blue suede shoes

well they call it country music but it sounds a lot like rock n roll


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HEY THEY WAS BOOT TAPPIN HAND CLAPPIN

MAN THEY WAS A PUTTIN ON A SHOW

WELL THEY CALL IT COUNTRY MUSIC BUT IT SOUND A LOT LIKE ROCK n ROLL


Band leader yellin like his soul was on fire and them big amplifiers pushin lots of overdrive

whole damn crowd was up on their feet and they was dancin and a jerkin to that double back beat

well they called it country music but it sound a lot like rock n roll


They didnt play Merle Haggards swingin doors we never heard Earnest Tubb and them Texas Trubadoors

they wasnt cryin in their beer feelin no pain they was rockin and a rollin with a Conway Twitty twang

well they call it country music but it sounds a lot like rock n roll

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They had a seven piece band with a double set of drums and that key board player he was gettin it on

they didnt have no slide steele player at all and they replaced the country fiddle with a tennor saxaphone

but they called it country music but it sound a lot like rock n roll


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NOW DONT THAT NEW AGE COUNTRY SOUND A LOT LIKE ROCK n ROLL


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Copyright Registration Number SR 356-499 Thanks Raegan Music Publishing BMI Reg #7121178