Country Songsmithin’

By Jim Hagarty
2013

I write, play and sing country music, so I hope I can get away with this.

Wanna write a hit country music song? I am compiling a list of necessary words to use, in no particular order. If they look strange to you, try saying (or singing) them out loud, one at a time. Here goes. More to follow as I think of them:

Ah. Caint. Furgetchew.
Gohn. Craze-ay. Babe-ay.
Laid-ay.
Wand. Yor. Purdy. Liddle. Leps.
Messyu. Awllde. Tam.
Caint. Quet. Drankin’. Thankin’. Asscold. Beere.
Too. Manny. Mammaries.
Daddee. Toll. Me. Lotza. Fesh. Induh. Sea.
He. Wuz. Rat.
Gohn. Feshin’.
Baah.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.