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John is on her way back home with an empty horse trailer and down a driver. So, put those two things together – backmasking, and recurring themes in country music – and you should be able to understand the joke.元 is Rhavensfyre's popular Chase and Rowan Novella series all in one great book. She got runned over by a damned old train ( sung) Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prisonīut before I could get to the station in the pick-up truck Had written the perfect country and western songĪnd I felt obliged to include it on this album ( still spoken) Well he sat down and wrote another verse to this songĪnd he sent it to me and after reading it I realized that my friend I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was not the perfect country and western songīecause he hadn't said anything at all about momma or trains or trucks or prison or gettin' drunk ( spoken) Well a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that songĪnd he told me it was the perfect country and western song

David Allan Coe even made fun of this, in a way, at the end of his song You Never Even Called Me by My Name:

(This example is so popular, you can still buy a T-shirt.)Ĭountry music is known for lyrics where songwriters lament about things that are lost (lost loves who have walked away, lost fortunes that have been squandered away, etc.). (This is called backmasking.) Perhaps the most famous of these messages was one that said "Paul is dead" on the Beatles' song Number 9. In the 1960's, some music groups recorded tracks on songs that sounded like gibberish, but, if the record was played backward (remember, these were vinyl records, so you could place the record on your turntable, and the needle on the record, and turn the record with your fingertip), the gibberish would become ungarbled, and a clear message could be heard.