Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 17, 2011
June 16, 2011
June 18, 2011
Transcript:
Coach Hacker: Please, Frazz? Teach me to write country songs. Frazz: I'm not sure that can be taught. Coach Hacker: I know. It has to be lived. I have a mom, I have a dog, I have a truck and I don't understand women. Frazz: I guess that just leaves prison work detail. Coach Hacker: I played college football.
As quoted by David Allan Coe (in the classic “You Don’t Have to Call Me Darlin’, Darlin’”), Steve Goodman said every country song has to mention getting drunk, momma, prison, rain, and pickup trucks. Hence the final verse of the song: “I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison/so I went to pick her up in the rain/but before I could get to the station in my pickup truck/she got run over by a dammed old train…”