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ted wrote:

> Hi Tvo, do you have a link to this whole article? I'd like to put it up on a
> music forum or two.
> Ted
>
> on 1/25/05 8:25 AM, homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org at
> homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
>  
>
> > * The Effect of Country Music on Suicide *
> >
> > STEVEN STACK, Wayne State University JIM GUNDLACH, Auburn University
> >
> > * Abstract *
> >    


music-suicide.pdf (application/pdf Object)  (think this will bring up a 
1992 PDF file) <http://www.uta.edu/depken/ugrad/3318/music-suicide.pdf>

tvoivozhd---the dolorous verse of country music is depressing---you 
know, "my achin hort" and that sort of thing.  All you have to do is 
introduce a few cheery words and title to offset them.  For instance, 
like the "Lucky Pants" piece of country music, where the poor husband 
staggers home after a twelve-hour shift in a coal mine, throws his pants 
across the back of a chair and crawls into bed---heard a noise a few 
minutes later, and still sleepy put the pants  back on and looked around 
the house, locked all the doors and windows.  Here comes the cheery 
anti-suicidal part.  You write a verse about how they were too short and 
didn't feel right---the husband reaches in his back pocket and found his 
wallet contained $50,000. whereupon he heads to town to buy the "Last 
Chance" bar and renames it the "Lucky Pants Tavern".  Lives happily ever 
after.