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    "King Country"genre: Country General
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    Just yer average tune about a trucker on a run from Tulsa to Graceland, tellin' his troubles to an all-ears waitress in a greasy spoon.
    Label: kammjamm productions
    Credits: Written and produced by David Kamm. Rhythm guitar: Tom Bishel. Fake strings, 88-key drums, syntho-bass, pseudo-psteel guitar, (real) Fender Rhodes: David Kamm. Thanks to Tom Bishel for help on the chorus.

    Story Behind the Song
    [Engineer's note:  As this song has proven to be sort of popular, especially among the institutionalized and the infirm, I decided to clean up the vocal mix for this special October 2001 version.]

    A parody I wrote in Summer 2000 for an Elvis-sighting video that I was asked to co-score the musical soundtrack for.  There's a scene in the film where the main character and her co-worker (both are Big City types) are driving somewhere near Memphis, and they're smirking as they can't seem to find anything but Country music radio stations.  I originally planned to use just a couple of seconds of this song as they paused on a particular country station.  But the film's director liked the story of the song, so I was coerced into making the thing a full song.  It's now used as the closing credits theme.

    Lyrics
    I got a trailer full o' heartache
    And a belly full o' beer
    A truckstop east of Tulsa
    The waitress lends her ear
    I tell my tale of sorrow
    A life of grindin' gears
    A thousand miles to Memphis
    A thousand miles of tears

    [Chorus:]
    King Country, Tennessee
    In the land of grace and harmony
    And that southern inspiration
    Is really all I need
    To save me from this misery

    Well the highway is a stranger
    When all you feel is pain
    And all your friends are laughin'
    When sunshine turns to rain
    And money doesn't mean much
    When gray skies fill the blue
    A mystery lies in Memphis
    But I'm just passin' through...

    [Chorus]

    [solo]

    [Chorus]

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