Perfect Country Western Song
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The Perfect Country Western Song is a set of requirements for a good country western song. The requriements were defined by David Allan Coe in a letter that he wrote to Steve Goodman stating that Goodman's "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" was not a perfect country western song because it lacked several elements (see below). Goodman appended another verse to the song and mailed the new verse back to Coe. After Goodman's death, when Coe recorded the song, he added Goodman's verse to the song after an explanation of the dialog that transpired between the two songwriters that produced the "Perfect Country and Western Song."
It could be said that today's country music fails to meet Goodman's requirements in that it lacks the traditional country sounds.
[edit] The Requirements
According to David Allan Coe, a perfect country music song should mention:
Verification and enhancement come from the Humpff Family, whose perfect country song has the chorus Death, Divorce, Prison, Alcohol, Rivers and Trains (iTMS link)
[edit] See also
perfect county western song also inludes prision
