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Lot Long
by Gary E. Andrews - 11/10/26 11:20 AM
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Joined: Jun 2003
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Thanks for your time Alador and Ian.
The song is not meant to be strictly about an aneurysm. My hope was that someone who has faced or is facing any serious health issue (and who hasn't?) could get a smile out of it. Because humor is healthy. In fact, when I first was toying with the arrangement, I was very close to settling on a very up-tempo gospel type arrangement. Which I might still go to. A hand-clapping gospel thing. I could envision nurses in a hospital station playing this song and having a good time with it, even playing it for patients. That's the hope.
Haha, it's not easy being a songwriter who writes many styles. If we wrote only feel-good John Denver type tunes, it would be easier. But I write a lot of smart alec songs. This is not a Texas music genre song, but my, you should hear some of the stuff in that genre. I find it funny. I just love it. Many songs in Texas music genre wouldn't work in Nashville because "Oh, my, we can't dare take the chance of offending anyone." In Texas music, they don't give a rip, they just write it. I admit I am attracted to that.
However, I don't want to offend people with serious health issues. I like it but I'm too close to it.
James Taylor wrote a song about his family with the f-word in it. Something like "my effed up family." Does that make it unworthy? I know a lot of people who wouldn't care for it. They would never condone that in a song. Yet, many people love that line. Because they can't believe he wrote/sang that line and also because they identify, having their own effed up family.
I hope other people will chime in.
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