Remember the old show "Hee-Haw"? It was a Saturday night highlight for years. I remember sitting in my grandparents' house in Hamlin, Texas enjoying a greasy hamburger from the local dive and sitting in their small living room eating off TV trays watching "Hee-Haw".
Hamlin, Texas--population 2,248...."SAL-UTE!"
The reason I bring this up today is because all I can think of is that famous song from "Hee-Haw" which perfectly describes how my flu is progressing...
Gloom, despair and agony on me
(WOE!)
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery!
(WOE!)
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.
(WOE!)
Gloom, despair, and agony on me!
Please, dear Lord, let this sickness end. Sheryl's back at the doctor with Ella. We need to get well! Please, Lord, Please!! I promise never to sit on a porch wearing overalls singing that song...just please heal us!
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
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Oh man! Please don't let this post be a veiled reference back to the one where you were looking for ZOE recording suggestions. (Really, it would have gone better on "Deep Calls to Deep.") And who can forget:
Last night I went down to the drugstore
To see if you had been around
The druggist he said that you hadn't been there
"Why don't you try lookin' down at the pound?"
Where, oh where are you tonight?
Why did you leave me here all alone?
I searched the world over and thought I'd found true love.
You met another and- pbltbltblt!!
You were gone.
Add Porter Waggoner to the mix and that is a very old memory of a visit to my grandma's house. Hope you get well soon. We're looking forward to seeing you this weekend.
Junior Sample's used cars... call BR-549.
But, hey... one of the enduring parts of Hee-Haw (besides the habit I have of kicking people in the backside for bad jokes) was the Hee-Haw Gospel Quartet. Buck Owens, Granpaw Jones, Roy Clark, and Kenny Price did some of the great old hymns with a heartfelt twang, and I still love it!
If I think back REALLY hard, I can just VAGUELY remember some of these acts. I guess it's because I'm so very much YOUNGER than you ...
Praying that all of you get well post-haste -- you have far too much to do to be sick.
I tried to post a comment on Clarissa's Blog, but I couldn't get through, so I thought I would post it here since you were asking about ZOE songs the other day. I grew up Catholic & all of my childhood memories of church have different tunes than the ones we sing. Is there ANY way that you could do an arrangement of an old Catholic song? I could give you a list if you're interested, & I promise I won't give you one about Mary!!! Anyway, I would love to be able to sing some of those songs again & if ZOE did one then I could even sing it in church too!
Well, at least now I know what to ask the next time you call us all to "the blogger table."
Hey, Grampa! WHAT'S for SUPPER???
Heh. Get better soon, brother.
watch it Clarissa!! I know exactly how old you are! :)
You writing that reminded me though of the other Saturday night favorite--Lawrence Welk. Oh yeah, baby--that was some post-modern music, alright. Joke there.
I remember when we got our first color TV and seeing Lawrence Welk in color. OK--I'll stop. I'm really dating myself now. I don't think that it was because they didn't exsist. I think it was more that we couldn't afford one til around 1974 or so.
DUDE!!!
All day long I tried to comment on this blog and the window wouldn't open!
What I was going to say is while you were in Hamlin watching Hee-Haw and eating a burger, I was down the road in Coleman, Texas eating a corn dog from Dairy Queen on a TV tray in front of the "television" watching the Lawrence Welk Show! "And Now for the Lovely Sissy" I used to think the greatest thing in all the world would be to dance in a chiffon gown with bubbles and a live band! Is it me or did life just seem so simple then?
This is the third time this week you have said almost exactly what I was going to say...SPOOKY
GET WELL!!!
WEIRD! OK--so I am not sleeping. I am miserable. If I lay down I can't breathe. If I sit up it's a little better--but marginally.
Steph--will we see you in Abilene?
Brandon
I just wanted to tell you that I'll be praying you are feeling well really soon, and your whole family! Yuck that flu bug is awful!
I love reading your blog and have been for some time i just haven't posted much before. Anyways I can't add to everyone's funny comments b/c I've never seen Hee-Haw only heard others mention it before. Guess it was before my time.
Hope tomrorow finds you feeling better!
Blessings,
Jodi
Maybe Sunday ~ Lord willin' & if the in-laws don't come! :)
2 things:
1. Get well.
2. The song I like that I think should be on your next CD as a special song is, "No one else knows," by Building 429 (track &, I believe). It's cool, and slow and the guy's voice sounds a little Brandonish.
Perhaps I gave it to you Sunday when I sneezed into the back of your hair?
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