Ray Stevens - The Haircut Song (Original) 

Absolutely. I wore 2 tapes of this out in the 80s

wow. i first heard it this morning at home on long island ny. outrageous. was this a coincidence or was the barber shop playing it for fun?

Lol that's fabulous

I was in Iceland the summer of 1969. I was 15 at the time. I turned 16 later on on that year. I like a lot of the Ray Stevens songs.

I once read that the XO on that base was a Lieutenant.

Except for the way the born again barber's shop shook Ray down for all his cash and his watch too!

I know right?

Hey cousin!! Howdy!

I'm surprised he didn't say he was handed an offering plate.

Me too!

​Me Too . Go pirates

Me too

He's consistent. 😁

agreed, pity he took it out of later versions.

@@rexfariss5653 I suspect that at 6 minutes plus a lot of radio stations had a tough time fitting it into their formats! Take a verse out, it fit better!

And make sure you dont offend (certain) people

But for real the second verse is the fulcrum of the song. It goes macho to weird to religious. The running a church for loggers isnt as funny without the second verse. The juxtaposition makes it better because the first two verses are about masculinity.

@@rexfariss5653 ...they took it out for radio play, nazi and gay weren't words they wanted played on the radio back then

Looked him dead in the eye and i told him, "im a logger, played football in high school"

Peterbilt.

many

Mine too! My mom and I always make references to this and no one knows what we're talking about!

Love the barber

Luckily my next job was in San fransisco

"I'm gay."

Tony Smith been topping trees?

Raised in Coos Bay too

Go pirates. Good bye Englewood😮

It went to #45 in the Billboard country chart.

Ha! It was a reference to barbers clip on grades. 1 to 6 or more.🤣​@@SammyReed-cd4cu

@@charliegeorge. Oh.😳

Well the second version also has a music video, and with the nazi references they might have wanted to cut it so they could possibly play it on TV. That said that second verse does go a bit far in some regards, I'm bisexual and adore dark/offensive humor so really doesn't bother me at all, but I can see why some people wouldn't take too well to a lot of it.

What's sad is that he doesn't even really say anything negative about the second guy. It's more of a parody of the dark, gothic extremist lifestyle than about his sexuality. And it totally ruins the joke about Ray not being comfortable in his new environment. Gone is the second reference to the logger joke (the third being in the southern church barber) and the funny description of his haircut and how he fit in at the West Coast. In actuality, the Josie Cotton song "Johnny Are you Queer?" is more offensive in that it could be interpreted that that being gay is not okay. It's just overly sensitive nonsense. Just wait folks. Pretty soon we're all going to get offended by the word Taco because of the negative connotations it has on Mexican people. Which means all Taco Bell's will become Spanish American Bell.

Talk about your 'bad influence' on the internet. How about we all just sit back, relax, check all our uptightness at the door, smile at everyone sincerely, (no matter what their colour, creed, political affiliation, sexual orientation, man, woman, old, young), and just enjoy a man who writes and sings songs, (and he is no 'songbird'), about simple things in life and how we need to step back from all our useless personal ideals, and just have a giggle or simply smile at so many 'Real' things made fun of, or just plain hilarious, tongue in cheek, unbridled Ray Stevens. Try it, yea that's it, squeeze your arse cheeks and bellow out a good hearty laugh at ourselves and the world....I think it's time we all just 'EXHALE' !!!!!!

Loggers should of been offended...... not the gays lol

i'm sure there are quite a few gay punk rock hair stylist in the world...the joke is middle ground...

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Thank you!

I for real read this right ass we was saying it