First a confession. Sometimes I listen to country music stations. I say I consider it research because I like alt-country, and outlaw country, but as a rule I don’t like the god-fearing, punk hating, patriotic, sentimental pap that passes as country music these days. Today, over my drive home for lunch, I was listening to a modern country station. I was half paying attention when I heard “I’m the son of a third generation farmer, I’ve been married 10 years to the farmer’s daughter.”
What in the world??
Does that mean he married his sister?
Maybe I’m the only one that sees it that way, but it sure sounds fishy to me.
The song is: International Harvester by Craig Morgan.
June 25, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Hilarious! Good catch!
September 19, 2008 at 11:59 pm
First let me say that I love country music, but I too don’t like a lot of the newer, what passes for country music these days; it seems that if someone decides they want to sing, and it doesn’t qualify for any other music category, it’s like they say “let’s just classify them as country”. Regarding the song “I’m the Son of a Third Generation Farmer”–don’t you think – if it were actually for real – that if he grew up in farming country there would be many other farmers living in the area, and that he might have married a daughter of one of those other farmers? Thus “I’ve been married ten years to the farmer’s daughter”. It seems to me that it would be very difficult to write any kind of song, country or otherwise, if everything has to be clarified.