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My car doesn’t have a radio right now. Well, it hasn’t for a couple months. A child (who shall remain nameless) shoved something into the cassette deck, along with a casette, and now? nothing. The tape won’t play, and it won’t come out to let the radio play.

So.

Why am I telling you this? Because I tend to get stuck with these earworms. Sometimes, it’s a musical line (yesterday it was the theme to Hawaii 5-0, for example) sometimes it’s lyrics (Oink, Oink, Zoopals!).

Today? It’s been a treat.

Driving that train, high on cocaine
Casey Jones you better watch your speed
Trouble ahead, trouble behind
And you know that notion just crossed my mind

This old engine makes it on time
Leaves Hazard Station ’bout a quarter to nine
Hits Trouble Junction at seventeen to
At a quarter to ten you know it’s drivin’ again

The thing is, this song will play itself over and over and over again in my mind, and sometimes transmogrify into something else (”War, what is it good for? Absolutely nuthin’”) but usually just repeating.

And you know that notion just crossed my mind

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Play a fucking train song

Willie and his buddies opened with this one on their cable special. Too bad Shaver couldn’t be there.

It was a rainy Wednesday morning
That’s the day that I was born in
That old sharecroppers one room country shack
They say my mama left me the day before she had me
They say she hit the road and never once looked back
Well I’d just like to mention
My old grandma’s pension
Is the reason that I’m standing here today
I got all my country learning, milking and a churning,
Picking cotton, raising hell and baling hayI’ve been to Georgia on a fast train honey
I was’nt born no yesterday
I got a good Christian raising
I got an eighth grade education
Ain’t no need of ya all treating me this way