I just realized that I have live versions of about 20 of the Knees Calhoon songs as played by the Mighty Calhoon Brothers in Las Cruces NM back in the late 70s. So I plan to include a link to the live version at the bottom of the blog beneath the doodle. A few of the songs already done have live versions and I hope to add links on them so you might want to take another look at some of the older posts -- if you like live versions of songs. There's not much I can do to clean up the live recordings. They weren't recorded in stereo. We just set up a reel-to-reel tape recorder and hoped for the best.
Written: Electronics
Class, TVI, Albuquerque NM, 1973
One boring day at a vocational school Knees wrote the words to two songs, then went home at noon and wrote the music and recorded them. Death on the Horizon was the R&R song and this was the C&W tune. The words just seemed to write themselves and Knees was as surprised as anyone when this song turned out to be one of the world’s first polymorphously perverse country & western songs.
I’m drivin to a pickin job
Bout seventy miles from
my home town
An I got my country
station blarin
Listenin to the latest
sounds
With forty miles down
an thirty to go
An country words
a-spinnin in my mind
My man my woman my
wife, my life!
Sounds like someone’s
in a bind.
Now a little girl is singin about keepin her man
An warnin her friends
to stay away
Or a man is moanin in a
mournful voice
About how somebody’s
gonna hafta pay
You’d think everybody
owned someone else
But then only one at a
time
My man my woman my
wife, my life!
Who cares as long as I
get mine?
I’m a man who loves the women,
An my wife sure loves
the men
Maybe just the other
way around,
Somethin different now
an then.
An you know when I find
me a woman
My wife usually finds
her a man
An if we happen to be
together
We lend each other a
hand, a hand, a hand.
So here I am in another town,
My wife is seventy
miles away
An I bet she’s with a
friend
An they ain’t talkin
bout the time a day
But tonight when
quittin time rolls around
Me an Sally are gonna
be feelin fine
My man my woman my
wife, my life!
Who cares as long as I
get mine?
My man my woman my
life, big deal!
Who cares as long as I
get mine?
Boing
The CALHOON BROTHERS LIVE VERSION
(Sometime in the late 70s at the Las Cruces Inn, Las Cruces NM)
