Tonight I'm working on parish financial statements (Boy, what an exciting Saturday night for MamaT!) and listening to "Classic Country Saturday Night" on the radio. There have been plenty of nights when PapaC and I dance in the office, listening to the music. But he's not here, and I'm missin' him!
'Specially when they played "Sugar Daddy" by the Bellamy Brothers--one of the great dance tunes at the honky tonk we went to when we lived in Abilene:
What you need is a sugar daddy
Diamond rings and a brand new Caddy
Little things to help a girl make it through
What you need are satin pilows
Rivers flowin' down like willows
What you need is me to love you
Oh, baby!
Then they followed it up with Anne Murray singing "Could I Have This Dance":
I'll always remember the song they were playing,
The first time we danced and I knew.
As we swayed to the music and held to each other,
I fell in love with you.
Could I have this dance for the rest of my life?
Would you be my partner, then every night?
When we're together it feels so right,
Could I have this dance for the rest of my life?
I'll always remember that magic moment,
When I held you close to me.
As we moved together, I knew, forever,
You're all I'll ever need.
Could I have this dance for the rest of my life?
Would you be my partner every night?
When we're together it feels so right,
Could I have this dance for the rest of my life?
Thank goodness they hurried up and played some stuff that makes me laugh, before I became maudlin and began crying into my diet Coke! Right now they're playing "Oh, Lord It's Hard to Be Humble." I think country music is the only music these days with ANY sense of humor. And it's the most fun to dance to!
I'm kinda fond of "Loco" at the moment :)
I caught your link from Quiet Life. I love that song "Could I Have This Dance." I was recorded by Anne Murray, a fellow Canadian. Thanks for reminding me of this song.
I caught your link from Quiet Life. I love that song "Could I Have This Dance." I was recorded by Anne Murray, a fellow Canadian. Thanks for reminding me of this song.
Tell me about it! My sweetheart is gone for the whole week! I can't stand it . . . and not simply because I'm 8 months pregnant either. It may sound cliche, he's truly my best friend (with whom else can I laugh, chat, annoy, cry (remember pregnant, many a pitfall in those commercials out there), or cuddle?) Without him, well . . . I'm just glad it's only a week. In our entire time together we've only been apart 8 times . . . seems incredible.
PS> We just celebrated five years the 30th last month . . . God has really blessed this girl with a great man!
I've never liked the Bellamy Brothers (give me the Statlers or the Oakridge Boys instead) but I won't hold it against you (pun NOT intended).
Country has always been the only contemporary genre in which I have consistently found likable music. Is it just me, or has country improved in the last couple of years?
Tonight I tried to get LeXuan interested in John Anderson, but I don't think it stuck. :-/
My dad loved "It's Hard to be Humble." (He would whistle the tune when our self-esteem would be getting out of control.) Thanks for a happy memory. :)
It sounds like you actually get country music on your country music stations. Here in partibus infidelium it's called country music but sounds more like what in the dear dead days of my youth was called chicken rock.
George Jones? Who's he?
Cheers,
-John-