Willie Nelson Is Changing His Tune

[Penn]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/14/213743.shtml?s=icp



Country music outlaw Willie Nelson sang "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" more than 25 years ago.

He released a very different sort of cowboy anthem this Valentine's Day.

"Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)" may be the first gay cowboy song by a major recording artist. But it was written long before this year's Oscar-nominated "Brokeback Mountain" made gay cowboys a hot topic. Available exclusively through iTunes, the song features choppy Tex-Mex style guitar runs and Nelson's deadpan delivery of lines like, "What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?" and "Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out."

 

[willie]

Jerry Seinfeld had something to say about that but I forgot what it was.

 

[MysticalMom]

My cowboy fantasy has been ruined!

 

[BuddyLee]

The only things in Texas are steers and queers and you don't look like no steer.

- Full Metal Jacket

 

[Tonio]

I didn't realize Nelson had a sense of humor about cowboys.

Rev. Horton Heat already did a song on this theme:

I wanna go two steppin',
With a good lookin' big black buck,
I want him to come and pick me up in his Chevrolet pick-up truck,
And when we're on the dance floor his hat will rise high above,
It's inter-racial cowboy homo kind of love.

Tall of course dark and handsome,
A gentlemen in every way,
A true cow poke in every sense of the word,
We really go to work in the hay.

A bronc bustin' bull ridin' tiger,
Yet peaceful as a dove,
It's inter-racial cowboy homo kind of love

I know that us as a couple,
Will cause talk but I wouldn't mind,
Those cowboys will be pea green with envy,
When they see his cute behind.

That's why each night by the campfire,
I thank my lucky stars above,
For inter-racial cowboy homo kind of love.

 

[Larry Gude]

Say it ain't so Willie!

Maybe I didn't love you
Quite as often as I could have
Maybe I didn't treat you
Quite as good as I should have
If I made you feel second best
Boy, I'm sorry I was blind

You were always on my behind
You were always on my behind

Maybe I didn't hold you
All those lonely, lonely times
And I guess I never told you
I'm so happy that you're mine
Little things I should have said and done
I just never took the time

You were always on my behind
You were always on my behind

Tell me, tell me that your
Sweet love hasn't died
And give me
Give me one more chance
To keep you satisfied
satisfied

Little things I should have
Said and done
I just never took the time

You were always on my behind
You were always on my behind
You were always on my behind....







YIKE

 

[desertrat]

Good one Larry!

 

[Penn]

That there's funny, I don't care who you are! Alright Larry!

 

[Larry Gude]

Well...

...think about it. Ol' Mic and David Bowie supposedly went for a roll or two and look at their careers. Mic and Keef tonguing each other on SNL.

So, why not Willie and Waylon? And Kristofferson? Johnny seemed to spend an awful lot of time hanging around prisons...

Long, lonely bus rides from town to town...


Imagine if for all them years people been beating up hippes and queers to the sounds of...bare and broke back Country and Western legends!?

In the immortal words of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman...

"Holy Jesus!"

 

[bresamil]

My ex used to say he would go gay for Willie. Heck, I think he still says that.

 

[Larry Gude]

I'm sorry...

My ex used to say he would go gay for Willie. Heck, I think he still says that.

...that's just ####&d up.

 

[bresamil]

...that's just ####&d up.

I know. I also have a friend who said he'd go gay for Ted Nugent. I think I'm surrounded by closet bisexuals.

 

[Penn]

Did ya'll notice in the article where it said:

"The song, which debuted Tuesday on Howard Stern's satellite radio show, was written by Texas-born singer-songwriter Ned Sublette in 1981. Sublette said he wrote it during the Urban Cowboy craze and always imagined Nelson singing it."

So, this happening has been 25 years in the making.

Timing is everything?

 

[Larry Gude]

You sure know...

I know. I also have a friend who said he'd go gay for Ted Nugent. I think I'm surrounded by closet bisexuals.

...how to pick 'em, huh?

If I were gay I'd be a lesbian. I have no clue how women stand us.

 

[vraiblonde]

Rev. Horton Heat already did a song on this theme:

I love Rev. Horton Heat

No comment about Willie and his song - he's been unusual for a long time now. He's going to have to work some to surprise me.

 

[vraiblonde]

Okay, I've changed my mind. Willie Nelson is a jerk and he and his song both suck.

Brokeback Mountain tells the story of two cowboys, it doesn't paint every single one of them with the same brush. Nelson's song, however, says that all cowboys are homosexuals and is obviously intended to offend and insult.

So screw him - he's an ass. I hope the Rodeo Associations sue him until he bleeds from his eyeballs.

 

[Christy]

...think about it. Ol' Mic and David Bowie supposedly went for a roll or two and look at their careers. Mic and Keef tonguing each other on SNL.

So, why not Willie and Waylon? And Kristofferson? Johnny seemed to spend an awful lot of time hanging around prisons...

Long, lonely bus rides from town to town...


Imagine if for all them years people been beating up hippes and queers to the sounds of...bare and broke back Country and Western legends!?

In the immortal words of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman...

"Holy Jesus!"

Waylon would never. I've always suspected Willie.

 

[2ndAmendment]

I think Willie may have just signed his resignation from the Country and Western singers. Can you say Dixie Chicks? I think ol' Willie forgot his roots for political correctness and may find that his records are not so popular anymore and that his concerts have more guys in pink at them.

 

[bresamil]

I think Willie may have just signed his resignation from the Country and Western singers. Can you say Dixie Chicks? I think ol' Willie forgot his roots for political correctness and may find that his records are not so popular anymore and that his concerts have more guys in pink at them.

If he didn't write the song, is he performing it as a kind of parody? Weird Al style?

 

[2ndAmendment]

If he didn't write the song, is he performing it as a kind of parody? Weird Al style?

I don't think it will matter to C&W fans. Unless things have changed drastically on the C&W scene, Willie's career is pretty much over.