re: Apologies to Randy Newman

Great job TM58 ! Of course the source song
"Rednecks" is from the Randy Newman album " Good Old Boys ", about half of which was about Louisiana in particular and the rest about the South in general . There is another song on the album titled " Wedding In Cherokee County " that sounds like it was inspired by Eudora Welty with a little Faulkner thrown in .

The opening line was: " Papa was a midget , mama was a whore , granddad was a newsboy til he was 84 , what a slimy old bastard he was " , followed later in the song by the anatomical sexual metaphor : " why must everyone laugh at my mighty sword ? " While the song was hilarious it was hard to understand the inspiration .

Years later , I believe it was David Letterman , asked Randy Newman about the song . Newman said he had always wanted to write a song about people from the country Albania because a really high % of circus people were from there (in other words freaks, clowns , crazies and other wierdos) Then Newman said that about half way into writing the song he realized he didn't know enough about people from Albania to finish the song so " I just switched it to Alabama ! "

Geaux Randy ROLL TIDE !!!