tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post5766623622590984932..comments2024-03-29T03:57:26.974-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: I Didn't Know God Made Honky-Tonk Angels:Grimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-69005788715474775692012-12-03T16:12:01.767-05:002012-12-03T16:12:01.767-05:00Oh, yeah, it's a very famous line. The origin...Oh, yeah, it's a very famous line. The original song is called "The Wild Side of Life," and in addition to the female version of it, a woman wrote an outright rebuttal called "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels." David Allen Coe includes lines from it, including the one you're asking about, in "If That Ain't Country," and I'm sure it's turned up elsewhere too.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-40320327406401765002012-12-03T14:10:49.311-05:002012-12-03T14:10:49.311-05:00Ok, you see, I have some friends from Macon who ha...Ok, you see, I have some friends from Macon who have a punkabilly bank called the Liabilities. In one of their songs this line is used and I wasn't sure it it was a callback to an older song or what. In any event, their stuff can be found here:<br />http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/1770101-the-liabilities<br /><br />You can listen to samples at that site.MikeDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-25336057129159050652012-12-03T14:09:31.420-05:002012-12-03T14:09:31.420-05:00If the question is "Why did you think this wa...If the question is "Why did you think this was an appropriate title?", the answer has to do with the bait-and-switch aspect. Passed a law allegedly going to make insurance cheaper? Prices are going up. Passed a law that allows for state exchanges and not Federal exchanges? We'll just set up Federal ones anyway. Passed a law that was allegedly going to drop administrative costs? Now we have user fees in addition to the very same administrative costs, passed right on to you!<br /><br />It strikes me as similar to the proverbial 'Honky Tonk angel,' presenting him or herself as a good and worthy person, but then stealing away back to the saloon and breaking the heart of the man or woman who had believed in them.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-42841249263328101872012-12-03T13:47:22.856-05:002012-12-03T13:47:22.856-05:00It's a line from an old song. There are two v...It's a line from an old song. There are two versions of it:<br /><br />"I didn't know God made Honky Tonk angels; I should have known you'd never make a wife. You gave up the only one who ever loved you; and went back to the wild side of life."<br /><br />The other version is sung by a woman, and substitutes "take a wife" for "make a wife."Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-10502486261020776492012-12-03T10:48:41.076-05:002012-12-03T10:48:41.076-05:00Grim,
I need to know where you got the title of t...Grim,<br /><br />I need to know where you got the title of this post from.MikeDnoreply@blogger.com