[78-L] ^some guys have all the luck

[David Lennick]

Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
> Bud Black wrote:
>> In Charlie Daniel's recording of "The Devil Went Down To Georgia," the line
>> near the end of the song goes, "I told you once you (beep), I'm the best
>> there ever was."  I've always assumed the "beep" covered up the words "
>> son-of-a-bitch" since the meter of the line would indicate this.  Is there a
>> recording somewhere that has the beeped phrase left intact?  Or, how about
>> Johnny Cash's recording of "A Boy Named Sue," where he sings a line that
>> goes, "I'm the (beep) that named you Sue?"  Sounds to me like the same
>> epitaph was covered up here.
>>
>>   
> I have heard both of these intact.
> Not to out do, there is a horrible song being plugged on the C&W 
> stations right now by Dixie Chicks stand-in (since their politically 
> induced purge from the playboxes) Sugarland, (sh) "It Happens".
> 
Hey..back in the 70s, when the Global Television Network came on the air out of 
Toronto and was actually doing original programming (huh? wha' dat?), there was 
a daily dose of current affairs satire featuring Don Harron (Charlie 
Farquharson's alter ego) called "Sh..It's The News".

dl