I was at a kaoroke bar in Toronto one night I sang this song...I everyone was cheering me on...unbeknownst to me it was a gay bar and they loved I'll kiss your ass...lol my staff was dying laughing I had no clue it was a gay bar...
No it's not, Lmfao slavery was a thing and he's using slavery as a description of how his life was a struggle. Just because he says the n word and is white doesn't make this rascist.
Man, im so torn on this. I believe in the freedom to fly that flag. But the people that carried that flag tried to kill the people that carried the flag that is flying above me right now.
, “If That Ain’t Country (I’ll Kiss Your Ass),” finds Coe uttering a racial slur on record for the first time, singing the line “Workin’ like a nigger for my room and board.” The song paints a picture of a Texas family that verges on caricature, with the narrator describing his tattooed father as “veteran proud” and deeming his oldest sister “a first-rate whore.” While comparatively tame next to the pair of underground X-rated albums he would record later, the song further alienated Coe from the country mainstream and kick-started accusations that he was a racist, a charge he always vehemently denied. In 2004 he remarked: I am a songwriter, you know, and to me it has always bothered me that actors in the movies can say whatever they want to say, kill people, rape people and do things and no one ever accuses them personally of being that way. But when you write a song and then all of a sudden you are being accused of something. To me, songwriting is painting a picture and all you have to work with is words… I grew up with all my life hearing, “lazy as a Mexican,” “stingy as a Jew,” “working like a nigger,” or “dumb as a Polock.” It’s stereotype stuff that you hear growing up that immediately puts a picture in your head
People have no idea. But hey we all persecute. Blacks don't know they are not the only ones sold into slavery. They think it's just them. An African thing. Nobody looks at history. Just wake up
We didn’t have time to be offended. These young people today wake up every morning and ask what can I be offended by today. We where always too busy working and doing what needed done!
My pop pop got all his country learnin milkin ana churnin,pickin cotton,raisin hell and baillin hay! Raised my pops up same an this ole apple didn't fall far from the tree neither!
I’m glad you found this and we can correspond with a little bit of freedom left. Love my country and my southern roots gave 11 years to my country don’t regret it but starting too.
I grew up as number 5 of six boys. We damn sure worked our asses off cutting up logs for the winter. Had a tin roof that had so many holes every year I’d be up there with my pops and brothers helping bring tools and roofing nails and water from the time I was five years old till the day I left. Splitting all that wood along with everything else that comes with living off the land was sure hard work, but I’m so thankful for it today at 36 years old. If that ain’t country…..
Me too I knew the whole X-rated album word for word by the age 3😂😂 miss my dad this one and long haired redneck were the only ones I was allowed to sing along with lol miss my dad❤
Same here I’m from texas an it ain’t racist an like I tell everyone come an try an take it down cuz this house is protected by the good lord an ALOT OF GUNS LOL
David Allen Coe one of canton ohios finest . Such amazing talent as a song writer he wrote many songs for other famous artists and kind of stayed behind the outbof the lime light alot. Very underrated.
I fly the stars and bars not just because I had family that fought for the south but because every person that fought for the south were Americans too. God bless them.
Some folks will never get it. The civil war didn't start over slavery in the beginning , Big industrialist in the north needed money to further plans , industry, railroads and such. They didnt have it the south did and wouldn't give it to them so they took it By invading the south using cause of slavery, then came the carpet baggers. Don't get wrong I believe slavery was wrong . When kid go to school they don't teach you everything , there a whole nother side they don't teach. And yes every man, brother , and son that fought for the south were Americans too I just wish people could sit and talk to one another like they use too. Just one man's thoughts God bless America
Had a teacher once tell me that life in the south was different,he was from the north,said it was a slower more relaxed pace, people are more curtious and polite, say yes mama and no mama hold the door for the ladies. Yes even for back ladies! That's what that flag reprecents.😇to most southeners! Not Slavery!🙂😇
Absolutely true ma'am, thank you for seeing a different side of us good ol southern hospitality spitting, relaxed sitting hard working we fly the flag as a sign of an all american southern upbringing
I hold no qualms with that flag other than the people carrying it in battle were trying to kill the people carrying the one I stand under. Yet, I hold the belief that people can fly whatever flag they want. I also own a confederate flag.
Will she differentiated them because it's a huge issue people in the north think we are just inherently racist which is not the case she was saying that even our brothers and sisters of all colours deserve respect I'm a rebel flag flying Marlboro red smoking good ol boy from the south and my wife is from the north and this lady right here is spitting actual facts down there it's not about the colour of your skin or the words you use it's about respect and hospitality and doing what's right
Calvin Lafayette Kirby fought for the confederacy and died a prisoner of war at fort Monroe at the age of 40 years young he was my great great great great grandpa and that's why I won't be ashamed of the flag or where I come from...
The old man was covered with tattoos and scars He got some in prison and others in bars The rest he got working on old junk cars In the daytime They looked like tombstones in our yard And I never seen him when he wasn't tired and mean He sold used parts to make ends meet Covered with grease from his head to his feet Cussing the sweat and the Texas heat And mosquitos And the neighbors said we lived like hicks But they brung their cars for pa to fix anyhow He was veteran-proud, tried and true He'd fought 'till his heart was black and blue Didn't know how he'd made it through the hard times He bought our house on the G.I. bill But it wasn't worth all he had to kill to get it He drank Pearl in a can and Jack Daniels black Chewed tobacco from a mail pouch sack Had an old dog that was trained to attack Sometimes He'd get drunk and mean as a rattlesnake There wasn't too much That he would take from a stranger There were thirteen kids and a bunch of dogs A house full of chickens and a yard full of hogs I spent the summertime cutting up logs for the winter Tryin' like the devil to find the lord Workin' like a nigger for my room and board Coal-burnin' stove, no natural gas If that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass If that ain't country It'll hair lip the pope If that ain't country It's a damn good joke I've seen the Grand Ole Opry And I've met Johnny Cash If that ain't country I'll kiss your ass Mama sells eggs at a grocery store My oldest sister is a first-rate whore Dad says she can't come home anymore He means it Ma just sits and keeps her silence Sister, she left 'cause dad got violent And he knows it Mama she's old, far beyond her time From chopping tobacco and I've seen her cryin' When blood started flowin' from her calloused hand And it hurt me She'd just keep working, tryin' to help the old man To the end of one row and back again like always She's been through hell since Junior went to jail When the lights go out she ain't never failed To get down on her knees and pray Because she loves him Told all the neighbors he was off in the war Fighting for freedom He's good to the core and she's proud Now our place was a graveyard for automobiles At the end of the porch there was four stacks of wheels And tires for sale for a dollar or two Cash There was fifty holes in an old tin roof Me and my family we was living proof The people who forgot about poor white trash And if that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass If that ain't country It'll hair lip the pope If that ain't country It's a damn good joke I've seen the Grand Ole Opry And I've met Johnny Cash If that ain't country I'll kiss your ass I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes Concerning the great speckled bird I didn't know god made honky-tonk angels And went back to the wild side of life
I honestly have been forced to listen to this soo much that I now hate it 😭 It is still a great and truthful and somber song as It always will be. David Allen Coe is really good in general. Love his music! 🎶 🎵 😊💖
Soon as this new gen kids learn about this song they will be protesting to tear it down. It's gonna be considered a lyrical version of our great fore father statues that are no longer something to be proud of. Come get us comies. You did it. Won us over without firing a single shot.
I'm 17 and I hate to see what the younger generation is doing to history. They're trying to erase it and bring "peace" to the world. I like to call myself a conservative and I go to a mostly liberal school unfortunately, but I do go to vo-tech and I like to see that 99% of the kids that go there are conservative so I still have a little bit of hope for the future.
To All you folks upset over the N word David Allan COE wrote before most of you were even born... Have you listened to your raps & your favorite artist using the n word telling the kids to kill the cop telling them & teaching violence to all race & nationality that has TAKEN OVER AMERICA. SO everyone has a choice in life I know & enjoy every type of music but hot metal filthy rap & what don't SPEAK ENGLISH IN AMERICA. SO BLESS YOU ALL. GOD BLESS AMERICA 🙏🙏. JESUS LOVES US ALL THE GOOD BAD RED, YELLOW, BLACK, & WHITE. A SINNER CAN STILL BE SAVED & A SAVED MAN WAS ONCE A SINNER AS WELL. TO COE, I SAW TO MANY TIMES TO COUNT GOD ENCAMP 10,000 ANGELS ALL AROUND YOU GIVING YOU HEALING MERCY, THE GREAT PHYSICIAN WITH GOD'S HAND GUIDING THEIR MINDS & HANDS, MAY HE GIVE YOU GRACE, MERCY, & PEACE. A CHILD OF GOD, CHERI' STAY STRONG I KNOW CONFEDERATE RAILROAD IS WISHING YOU THE SAME AS I AM .
And I am from KY where they didnt know which fuggin side to fight for. But my family is from Cali and originally Spain and Italy and never owned no slaves. So God bless America many stories nothing a straight line. Confusing times then and now.
My father was a very proud , to serve ,so was i being a vetern means giving of yourself to a cause we only understand.us vets .keep strong, lacy smith: ,oooharra
One of my favorite songs because it makes me proud of how people had to grow up, or give up, and aint a damned thing racist about nuthin unless you take it personal, and if you take it personal, youre a hypocrit. Relax and enjoy life, enjoy a funny joke, and appreciate what YOURE ancestors had to go through to give us the laid back life we have workin to pay our bills and appreciate what weve earned. We just need to get tyrants out of the government and save the country so we can keep working and being proud of what we earn. Vote in November 2024.
1975 or was it '76? Two nights of DAC at the Backyard Lounge. Columbus, NE. I was a 17 yr old regular. Tripped balls both nights. He was on tour with Willie. These nights were in between Norfolk & Lincoln NE. Great time!!! Ever see Roadhouse? There ya go.😎💨💨
Ive done acid with artimus pyle ...drank jack daniel's will danny joe brown... Did shots with riff west and many more.. STILL stuck in this little town..called New Smyrna.🤣🤗
My family came to Illinois in 1861, and we're proud of our relatives on the Union side. And what that meant for the South was that they would have to learn to win and lose the same. And the song of the south is We aren't looking back, sweet potatoe pie and shut my mouth.
