By the way I'm waiting for an order from Texas Music Roundup including the new Johnny Bush album with this as the title song.

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I'm ashamed being a native TX. and not knowing the proper lyric to a JB tune. Thats like not knowing the Star Spangled banner!

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Bill, unfortunately, I had to contact the State government about your not knowing this song. A group of DPS officers have been dispatched to Stephenville and are going to escort you to the state line... Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, or Arkansas... your choice.

And Janice is correct. There is only one "verse," per se. The "chorus" is repeated three times... as follows:

One fool on a stool is what I heard the bartender say
Never thought my own love would ever turn out this way.
Green snakes on the ceiling, walking walls I can see,
One fool on a stool and on this stool sits this fool me.

The song, which is only 2:16 long, starts with the instrumental lick, then the chorus, then the verse as given by Janice, then the chorus again, then the instrumental lick, then the chorus once more and out.

Print this thread out and memorize it. The DPS will quiz you and if you get the song right, your deportation will be postponed.

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escort you to the state line... Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana, or Arkansas... your choice.

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I knew the verse that Janice posted. But I seem to remember another verse that was something like this:

One fool to the stool, one drink to a hand.
Talking to me? No ma'am I ain't seen your man. etc etc.

Could it be that JB just replaced Thread for your needle with "talking to me" in one verse at sometime or another?

This is where I really deserve to be kicked out of TX. I don't even own a recording of this!! Don't tell on me Herb. Thanks Ya'll for your help. I think I can get by.

Hey Herb. Hows' my ol' buddy Danny Hawk? I haven't seen him in a couple of years. I met him up here in Stephenville one night when I went up to City Limits to hit Gary P. up for a job! Danny really talks highly of you. I liked his playing. He was playing a little Garritt s10. Sounded awesome.

[This message was edited by Bill C. Buntin on 24 November 2001 at 07:36 AM.]

If Bush changed the lyrics to "Green Snakes" he did it before the recording took place, but I don't think he did. The song was written by Larry Kingston (who didn't drink, I understand), and was only supposed to be an album cut. Bush didn't like the song and didn't want to cut it but Ray Pennington allowed as how it was only going to be used as "filler." Well, it became a smash hit and Johnny was forced to sing it his entire career.

Actually, for about the first 5 years of my playing with JB, we rarely did the song, though we got lots of requests for it. We do it a lot more now.

Johnny says "be sure you like every song you record, because if one you don't like becomes a hit, you'll have to sing the sumbitch the rest of your life!"

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