I'm
a Classical music type of guy, not much into Country and Western,
Rap or Popular music, but I do have a few pieces that I like. I also
have a few pieces of C & W, Rap, etc. that I DO NOT care for at
all and “Goodbye Earl” by the Dixie Chicks is one of them. Now,
the song itself is not bad, it's just the way they say goodbye to
Earl.
In
the song Mary Ann and Wanda are BFFs throughout high school and when
they graduate Mary Ann heads of to the big city and Wanda marries
Earl. Wrong move for Wanda because Earl is a wife beater which of
course is way wrong. Earl puts Wanda into intensive care and Mary
Ann come back home from Atlanta with a vengeance. The two girls
decide that bad ass “Earl has to die.” Fine, the guy deserves
it; go to it girls.
In
the South, including Virginia where I live, there are just certain
foods you should never mess with – they are sacred to the South.
You don't mess with the family Fried Chicken recipe, change the
ingredients for your Mama's Gumbo, drink your Ice Tea without sugar
and you DON'T poison a man's Black-eye Peas. You just don't do it!
Poison his coffee, milk, mash potatoes and gravy, but, never his
Black-eye Peas! Come on, it's just not right.
But
that's just how Mad Mary Ann and Wicked Wanda do poor Earl to dirt –
they poison his peas. Poor Earl . . .. not the way for a bad
Southern boy to go. Then the girls bundle him up, put him in the
trunk of their car and head off to LA to party down. Of course the
Police want to pick him up for battery on Wanda but can't find him
and soon everybody forgets about old Earl.
Not
me! I think they should find Earl's body, see how he was Black-eye
Pea murdered and throw Mary Ann and Wanda into jail for a few years.
Charge? Cooking poisoned Black-eye Peas in the South!
So
if you need to do away with an Earl please use something else to
poison him with. Please leave the man's Black-eye Peas alone.
Please.