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Subject: COUNTRY MUSIC
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` COUNTRY MUSIC, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes I feel so lean
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda
Subject(s): Country Music; Divorce; Farm Life; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers


COUNTRY MUSIC, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm one of those midwesterners
Last Line: It's then I wanted to sing. Not so much now
Subject(s): Country Music


IN JIMMY'S GRILL, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The girl in blue-jean shorts\
Last Line: Where a beer gut rolls like a melon on the green pool table.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Country Life; Country Music; Sex; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons


JAMMING WITH THE BAND AT THE VFW, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I played old country and western
Last Line: And rhinestone earrings, moving suddenly toward me.
Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Country Dances; Country Life; Country Music; Poetry & Poets


VAN GOGH'S COUNTRY MUSIC, by PHILIP APPLEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cypresses
Last Line: The sadness would last forever
Subject(s): Country Music; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


WABASH CANNONBALL, by ALTON DELMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the rocky-bound atlantic to the south pacific shore
Last Line: As they ride the rods and brake-beams on the wabash cannonball
Subject(s): Country Music; Railroads; Wanderers And Wandering


WRITING ON NAPKINS AT THE SUNSHINE CLUB; MACON, GEORGIA 1970, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rock-o-la plays country and western
Last Line: Even the low belch of the brunette behind the flippers.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Country Life; Country Music; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; South (u.s.)