Songs Written by Bob MCDILL - Song of the South, Gone Country, It Must Be Love, Louisiana Saturday Night, Everything That Glitters (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Song of the South, Gone Country, It Must Be Love, Louisiana Saturday Night, Everything That Glitters, Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On, She Don't Know She's Beautiful, Catfish John, They Rage On, Don't Close Your Eyes, Why Didn't I Think of That, Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy, if Bubba Can Dance, Big Wheels in the Moonlight, in a Different Light, on the Road, My Baby's Got Good Timing. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Song of the South" is a country song written by Bob McDill. First recorded by Johnny Russell, it was a #57 country single in 1981. Covered by Tom T. Hall and Earl Scruggs, it was a #72 country single for them in 1982 from the album Storyteller and the Banjo Man. A cover released in 1988 by Alabama, from their album Southern Star, reached Number One on the U.S. country charts. The song tells the story of a poor Southern cotton farm-family during The Great Depression. "Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch. We all picked the cotton but we never got rich." "Well somebody told us Wall Street fell, but we was so poor that we couldn't tell." The song references President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the line, "The cotton was short and the weeds was tall, but Mr. Roosevelt's gonna save us all." The father of the family is a Southern Democrat; "Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat. They oughta get a rich man to vote like that." The family loses the farm after the mother gets sick. "The county got the farm and they moved to town." In the end, the family ends up all right, having sought a life in a more urban location; "Well papa got a job with the TVA, we bought a washing machine, and then a Chevrolet." The music video consists mainly of black and white photos and footage of...http: //booksllc.net/?id=20157599