Friday Afternoon Country: Lyle Lovett
Friday, 6th November 2009
Because, frankly, from Afghanistan to Texas to the corridors of Whitehall and the Bank of England, it's been a pretty bleak week it's appropriate to bring Saturday Morning Country forward by a few hours. This Lyle Lovett song - If I Had a Boat - always cheers me up.
Added bonus: with its dreams of boats and ponies and ifs and ans and all the rest of it you may also read it as an arch critique of the promises politicians feel compelled to make and that we, because we want to believe, choose to take at more than face value. Not merely boats for all, but ponies on each and every boat too...
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Jane
November 7th, 2009 5:18am Report this commentThis song always makes me happy. Almost anything Lyle sings makes me feel good!
Kingsley
November 7th, 2009 5:38am Report this comment"Face Value" always a risky turn of ohrase with Lyle!
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