Okie from Muskogee is held up as some kind of conservative anthem, but it espouses consumption of illegally distilled alcohol. I'm not certain how that reinforces the conservative values of respect for authority.
Rocky Top celebrates the murder of two federal law enforcement officers, I don't know how many British people could get their head around that. Or yankees for that matter.
I guess if Steve Earle were to add another verse to Copperhead Road, his son would come back from Iraq and cook meth.See how I have enriched his cultural life.
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And for the culturally uninitiated:
- Okie from Muskogee: "...white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all"
- Rocky Top: "once two strangers climbed ol' Rocky Top lookin' for a moonshine still, strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top, reckon they never will"
- Copperhead Road sysnopsis: Vietnam vet abandons family hooch business to grow dope in the hills.
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