So here’s Steve Goodman’s other hit song. The only recording I have of it is from a David Allan Coe’s Live at Billy Bob’s Texas record, and its arrangement is barely strung together between the verses, the crowd singing, the raucous choruses and a story in the middle of it, so I took the liberty of trimming it a bit. Don’t get me wrong, I think the story of Steve Goodman going back and adding the last verse is a good one, but I don’t think it makes sense to re-tell it. I also dropped the third verse and a chorus for brevity’s sake.

Three chords and a country music joke take this song pretty far. It’s not hard to play, but like any of ‘em so far, it took several attempts to get a passable take. It’s got some good sing-along hooks that every Texan knows by heart, and does an excellent job of rolling all the country and western clichés into one song. Anyway, I’ve already given you the skinny on Steve Goodman and David Allan Coe, so I’ll cut to it: