[78-L] titular opposites

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Sep 19 20:01:14 PDT 2009


Where have all the opposites gone? We seem now to be naming car tunes. And 
nobody's mentioned "Pink Cadillac".

dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
>> How about 'In my merry Oldsmobile' and 'Keep away from the fellow who owns
>> an automobile'?
>>
> Or. "...Oldsmobile" and "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along"...?!
> We could also add my tune: "McLaughlin-Buick Blues"...?! and/or
> "Beep Beep," which was about a Nash Rambler?! Further, we have
> "Ray and his Little Chevrolet" as well as the GG "classic," "Since Willy
> Got a Whippet" and the blues tune, "Mercury Blues"...?! IIRC, there
> was also a blues tune about Pontiac...?!
> 
> Any truck-related C&W tunes which mention makes? There is a standing
> joke to the sense that "Old truckers never die...they just get a new 
> Peterbilt!"
> but I wot not if a song based on that witticism exists or ever did...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 



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