Travelin' Soldier. Dixie Chicks literary devices help.?
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Never heard the song huh? \nViet. vet going off to war , no girlfriend, asks waitress to let him write, she's O.K wit it, He writes, she reads, soldier dies , girl cries at his funeral.  The chorus is at least repetition..Lyrics and chords on link.  Song written by Bruce Robison. Bro n law to Emily Robison, D/C Banjo, Dobro & b/u vocals.  Good luck and get some sleep.
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If any of these describe you, you're a redneck!\n\nYou think that potted meat on a saltine is an hors d'ouerve.\n\nThere is a stuffed possum anywhere in your house.\n\nYou consider a six-pack and a bug-zapper high-quality entertainment.\n\nFewer than half of your cars run.\n\nYour mother doesn't remove the Marlboro from her lips before telling the State Trooper to kiss her a**.\n\nThe primary color of your car is "bondo".\n\nYou honestly think that women are turned on by animal noises and seductive tongue gestures.\n\nYou stand under the mistletoe at Christmas and wait for Granny and cousin Sue-Ellen to walk by.\n\nYour family tree doesn't fork.\n\nYour wife's hairdo has ever been ruined by a ceiling fan.\n\nYour mother has been involved in a fistfight at a high school sports event.\n\nYou've ever barbecued Spam on the grill.\n\nMore than one living relative is named after a southern civil war general.\n\nYour front porch collapses and more than six dogs are killed.\n\nYou've ever used lard in bed.\n\nYour home has more miles on it than your car.\n\nThe best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.\n\nThe neighbors started a petition over your Christmas lights.\n\nYour brother-in-law is your uncle.\n\nYour only condiment on the dining room table is the economy size bottle of ketchup.\n\nThe rear tires on your car are at least twice as wide as the front ones.\n\nYou consider "Outdoor Life" deep reading.\n\nYou prominently display a gifts bought at Graceland.\n\nYou use the term `over yonder' more than once a month.\n\nThe diploma hanging in your den contains the words "Trucking Institute".\n\nYour mother keeps a spit cup on the ironing board.\n\nYou've ever worn a tube top to a wedding.\n\nYour favorite Christmas present was a painting on black velvet.\n\nYou think that Don Perignon is a Mafia leader.\n\nThe most commonly heard phrase at your family reunion is "What the hell are you looking at, S***head?"\n\nYou think that beef jerky and Moon Pies are two of the major food groups.\n\nYou think that Campho-Phenique is a miracle drug.\n\nYou've ever used a weed eater indoors.\n\nYou have a rag for a gas cap (on a car that does run).\n\nYou look upon a family reunion as a chance to meet `Ms. Right'.\n\nYou have to go outside to get something out of the 'fridge.\n\nYour richest relative invites you over to his new home to help him remove the wheels.\n\nYou've ever financed a tattoo.\n\nYou go to your family reunion to meet women.\n\nYour idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a six-pack.\n\nYou go to a Tupperware party for a haircut.\n\nYou have spray painted your girlfriend's name on an overpass.\n\nYou have more than two brothers named Bubba or Junior.\n\nYour father encourages you to quit school because Larry has an opening on the lube rack.\n\nYou think a Volvo is part of a woman's anatomy.\n\nYou think that the Styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time.\n\nYou've been too drunk to fish.\n\nYou had to remove a toothpick for wedding pictures.\n\nYour lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.\n\nSomeone asks to see your ID and you show them your belt buckle.\n\nYour Junior/Senior Prom had a Daycare.\n\nThe directions to your house include "turn off the paved road".\n\nYour dog and your wallet are both on chains.\n\nYou owe the taxidermist more than your annual income.\n\nYou have lost at least one tooth opening a beer bottle.\n\nJack Daniel's makes your list of "most admired people".\n\nYour house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.\n\nYou have started a petition to change the National Anthem to "Georgia on My Mind".\n\nYou call your boss "Buddy", on a regular basis.\n\nYou consider your license plate personalized because your dad made it in prison.\n\nYou have been fired from a construction job because of your appearance.\n\nYou need
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dixie chick,.  they can't kepp their mouths shut\nb
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The Dixie Chicks are a great singing group and you gotta admire them for speaking their mind on such a controversial issue. Just because what they say is grabbed by reporters and media shouldn't stop them from saying what they believe. And yes... I still like them.
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Hey rocker chick, \n     Horse back riding as damn fun.  But cowboy riding? buck up and try to hold on longer than 8 seconds for every body's sake.\n    And the song has song great lyrics, by the way.
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i think its trying to just be a narrative poem telling the story of two mockingbirds that became gods and blessed people who were unwilling to become gods themselves. Its dort of a poem of self discovery.
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I like "Tattoo". It reminds me of "Desperados Waiting for a Train" by Guy Clark. Both talk about men once tough growing old. Thanks for asking.
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I think Mr. Johnny Cash summed it up best-\nRagged Old Flag\nI walked through a county courthouse square,\nOn a park bench an old man was sitting there.\nI said, "Your old courthouse is kinda run down."\nHe said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town."\nI said, "Your old flagpole has leaned a little bit,\nAnd that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it."\n\nHe said, "Have a seat," and I sat down.\n"Is this the first time you've been to our little town?"\nI said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like to brag,\nBut we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag.\n\n"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there \nwhen Washington took it across the Delaware.\nAnd it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key\nSat watching it writing Say Can You See.\nAnd it got a bad rip in New Orleans\nWith Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams.\n\n"And it almost fell at the Alamo\nBeside the Texas flag, but she waved on though.\nShe got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville\nAnd she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.\nThere was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg,\nAnd the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag.\n\n"On Flanders Field in World War I\nShe got a big hole from a Bertha gun.\nShe turned blood red in World War II.\nShe hung limp and low by the time it was through.\nShe was in Korea and Vietnam.\nShe was sent where she was by her Uncle Sam.\n\n"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam,\nAnd now they've about quit waving her back here at home.\nIn her own good land here she's been abused --\nShe's been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused.\n\n"And the government for which she stands\nIs scandalized throughout the land.\nAnd she's getting threadbare and wearing thin,\nBut she's in good shape for the shape she's in.\n'Cause she's been through the fire before\nAnd I believe she can take a whole lot more.\n\n"So we raise her up every morning, take her\ndown every night.\nWe don't let her touch the ground and we fold\nher up right.\nOn second thought, I do like to brag,\n'Cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag."
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try going on to http://www.lyricsondemand.com/p/p10/html
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Howdy,\n  1800's . If you will listen to the song "DIXIE" all the way through, You will here this is an old Irish song that the South adopted. In this song, on the second and third verse, Jim was a deciever, and His gal had a meat cleaver.
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Ok....heres what i came up with...Feel free 2 change or leave out any part that you dont like! hope this helps...\n\n~Ok have her sitting there on the train right next to the bathroom door and out comes a big fat old nasty man(he has flies swarming around him) with a newspaper in his hand. Make it obvious with her and others around her that he just got done taking a dump and it smells awfull! She asks him if hes done with that paper and he tells her sure but if shes gonna dump off a load she should open a window or give it 20 mins and to use the tissues outta her bra(when he says this she tucks her hands in her bra) cuz he ran outta toilet paper and had 2 use a section of the newspaper. He hands her the paper and she smells it...it stinks...she opens it and finds a couple(like a handfull) of dead flies in the paper. She looks around and sees an open little red bag (like a mini peanut bag that they give on airplanes)sitting on the seat between her and the sleeping person beside her(The small bag is just sitting proped up on the seat between them.) she takes the dead flies and puts them in a small red bag   . After she puts the dead flies in there she sits the bag back between them on the seat. She flips through the paper and looks through the adds. She starts vigarously circling ones that says slutty skanky jobs like escort service, stripper, pimp lookin for a hoe...stuff like that, X's through decent ones that says Business Executive, Administrative Secretary, Legal Aid...stuff like that...you see her doing this quickly.\n\n *Camera shots* glance on the ads shes circling and Xing out but only quick enough for us to read the ad and see how shes marking it!\n\nThen all of a sudden she draws a line through the 3 skanky jobs...(its like shes playing tic-tac-toe in the ad section) She stands up and yells "BINGO" people around her give her strange looks as she awkwardly appologizes and sits down. Her outburst startled the sleeping person beside her and now they are awake. As she goes back to the ad pages...looking at certain ads and giving weird and disgusted facial expressions as she reads them...(We dont see what shes reading...we just see her face) in the background we see the nolonger sleeping passanger beside her reach for the bag of nuts. You see them pour some in their hand and toss them into their mouth. Then she finds the ad about the hospice caregiver and starts to read the ad out loud saying how it fits her perfectly cuz she kind and caring and always wants to help others...(as shes reading this we see the person beside her eating the peanuts w/ the flies in them make weird faces while eating the peanuts...realizing something in not quite right) meanwhile the person next to her has started choking on the peanuts and is tapping her on her shoulder...(when shes going through her caring about others speach) and signals shes choking...Caroline rolls her eyes and says..."in a minute...im reading" the tapping continues more desperately now and Caroline says " you can have it when im finished"...the tapping continues Caroline throws her hands up and unknowingly elbows the person in the face knocking them back into the corner...it looks like their sleeping. Caroline turns around with a p*ssed off look on her face and sees the "sleeping" person and gets this wondering look her her face, shrugs it off and goes back to readin her ad. she goes to cirlcle the ad but her pen wont write so she shakes it...(like giving a handjob) it finally explodes all over the back of the person in front of her(maybe the size of a fist). She quickly pulls out some tissues from her bra an makes the small stain a HUGE one... the person turns around and its a clown dressed in a business suit. He asks what the trouble is and she said its her pen "it wont write" so he says "here, use mine"...so she circles the add and then it suddenly disappears(play eerie music...her face shows its kinda creep
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Dixie Chicks - "I Hope"\n\nSunday morning, heard the preacher say\nThou shall not kill\nI don't wanna, hear nothin' else, about killin'\nAnd that is God's will\nCuz our children are watching us\nThey put their trust in us\nThey're gonna be like us\nSo let's learn from our history\nAnd do it differently\n\nCHORUS:\nI hope\nFor more love, more joy and laughter\nI hope\nWe'll have more than we'll ever need\nI hope\nWe'll have more happy ever afters\nI hope\nWe can all live more fearlessly\nAnd we can lose all the pain and misery\nI hope, I hope\n\nOh Rosie, her man he gets too rough \nThat's all she can say, is he's a good man\nHe don't mean no harm\nHe was just brought up that way\nBut our children are watching us\nThey put their trust in us\nThey're gonna be like us\nIt's okay for us to disagree\nWe can work it out lovingly\n\nI hope\nMore love, more joy and laughter\nI hope\nYou'll have more than you'll ever need\nI hope\nThere'll be more happy ever afters\nI hope\nWe can all live more fearlessly\nAnd we can lose all the pain and misery\nI hope, I hope\n\nThere must be a way to change what's going on\nNo, I don't have all the answers\n\nFor I hope\nFor more love, more joy and laughter\nI hope\nYou'll have more than you'll ever need\nI hope\nYou'll have more happy ever afters\nI hope\nAnd you can all live more fearlessly\nAnd you can lose all your pain and misery\nI hope, I hope\n\nI hope\nI hope\nI hope
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a common one is \npretty little birdy with a pretty little bill, \nlanded on my window sill.\nGave the bird a piece of bread\nThen I smashed his little birdy head\n\n(wierd thing is, my mom told me that as a poem when I was little)\n\nI left the sky in the middle of the night\nI hit the deck and I'm ready to fight.\nA grease gun and Kabar by my side\nThese are the tools that make men die.\n\n\nHere We Go\nOn the Run\nOne mile,\nNo good.\nTwo miles,\nNo way.\nThree miles,\nOrraaahhh\nFeelin good\nOrraaahhh\n\n\nIn the middle of the night in the drizzle and rain,\nI packed my chute and I ran to the plane.\nMission top secret there's a mission unknown,\nWe dont know if we're ever comin home.\nStand up buckled up shuffled to the door,\nJumped right out and shout MARINE CORPS!\nIf my chute dont open wide.\nI've got another one by my side.\nIf that chute dont open round.\nI'll be the first one on the ground.\n\n\nTell my mama not to cry\nIn the Marine Corps you will do or die.\nPin my wings upon my chest\nTell my girl I've done my best.\nPlace a Kabar in my hand.\nI'll fight my way to the promised land.\nOrraaahhh!\nBlood and Guts\nEverywhere\nThats us\nThats us\nLean and mean\nU.S. Marine\nOrraaahhh!\nOrraaahhh!\n\n\nSuzie said to me one day long ago,\nHoney please dont join the Corps.\nThey like to do nothing but fuss and fight,\nThey look at women like they're high and tight.\nThey got poor table manners and they are so crude,\nThey got a board's sense of humor and they are so rude.\nI said Suzie let me tell you what I'll do,\nI'll join the Corps just for a year or two.\nSo I packed my trash and I headed for the plane,\nI went to the place where they made Marines.\nOh Yeah\nOh Yeah\nParris Island was the name of the place,\nThe first thing I saw was a Drill Instructors face.\nOh Yeah\nOh Yeah\nOh Yeah\nHe had razor creases and a Smoky Bear,\nMountain climbing privates everywhere\nSuzie said it's me or the Corps,\nI cant take this life anymore.\nI looked at her with a big ol grin,\nI haven't seen Suzie since I dont know when.\nOh Yeah\nTake it\nI got it\n\n\nBorn in the woods,\nRaised by a bear..\nDouble set of dog teeth,\nTriple coat of hair..\nTwo Magazines,\nIn my M-16.\nI'm a lean and mean\nI'm a US Marine.\n\n\nBorn on a mountain top raised by a bear,\nGot two sets of teeth and a full coat of hair.\nSee us coming better run better hide,\nCause well hunt you down and eat you alive.\nSlit your throat and wipe it clean,\nWere mean Mother _______ were US Marines.\nWell spit on your graves and laugh out loud,\nWear medals on our chest and feel damn proud.\nFighting and killing thats our job,\nSo we earned the name Devil Dogs\nOh Yeah\nOh Yeah\nParris Island\nSan Diego\nMarine Corps\n\n\nEvery where we go,\nPeople wanna know.\nWho we are,\nSo we tell them,\nWere the boys from DI School you here so much about,\nMamas take their daughters in whenever we go out.\nFeels Good\nSounds Good\nAh Ah\nYou can take one look at us and see were motivated\nYou can take one look at us you know were dedicated.\n\n\nI used to sit at home all day,\nLetting my life a waste away.\nThen one day a man in blue,\nSaid son I got a job for you,\nTheres travel and adventure and loads of fun,\nAnd well even teach you how to shoot a gun.\nTheres room and board and a plate of food,\nAnd a brand new tailored business suit.\nI used to drive a Bonneville,\nNow all I do is run up a hill.\nI used to drive a Chevrolet,\nNow all I do is sleep in the hay.\nI used to drive a Cadillac,\nNow all I do is hump a pack.\n\n\nLo Right a Leaft\nLeft Right Right your Lefty Right your Left.\nLeft Right your Left\nLefty Right your Left\nLeft Right your Leaft.\nLefty Righty Lo\n\n\nHeavy on the left foot\nMotivated Left foot\nOh Yeah\nAint no use in lookin down\nThere aint no discharge on the ground.\nThere aint no use in lookin back,\nA jodys got your Cadillac.\nThere aint no use in feelin blue,\nA jodies got your lady to
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they did what Americans are supposed to do.  they spoke up for their beliefs.  i have never been a huge fan of the Dixie Chicks music, but, i went and bought the new CD to show my support for what they did.  and the song on it where they sing about the big uproar is pretty moving.  everybody, go buy it.\n\nthe dixie chicks are having more than their share of trouble (as opposed to all the other bands and artists who have protested the war) because they are country musicians.  country music listeners tend to be the "necks" who vote for Bush, and comprise that tiny 33% of those who still support him.  so, country music stations have refused to play dixie chicks music.\n\nwhatever.
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Simply Red seems to work. Or 'the Beautiful South' when they're not being cynical. Barry White is to cheesy to work these days. My rule is: can you hear the words? If you can (and its about love), its probably good. I like 'On and On' by Kevin Max.
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Here's some links for you ! The first link below has lots of F4 lyrics for you ! Hope this helps ! :o)
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You didn't site any examples.\n\nI suspect you support the Dixie Chicks' right to say all the trash they said BUT object to anyone who uses their freedom of speech to protest & refuse to buy their albums & refuse to listen to stations that play their music.\n\nFreedom of speech goes both ways, fella!