I "heart" Country Music

When I was elementary/early junior high age, I didn't care for Country music at all.  I would never listen to it on the radio...never, ever!  I thought it was silly, though I'm not sure why.  I think the "twang" of it was annoying to me.
But, as I got older, so many of my friends listened to it. Everyone wanted to listen to Country music when we had sleep overs or when we were just hanging out at each others houses. 

One morning I decided to give it a try, and turned my radio on to the local Country radio station and listened while I was getting ready for school.  I just couldn't get into it...it was just too "country sounding".  The next morning, I turned on the radio and jumped in the shower.  UGH...I had forgotten to change the station and had to endure the Country music for the duration of my shower (which according to the screams of my parents to "get out of the shower", was at least half an hour!!).  And then I heard it...the most Country song of them all. It had all that country "twang"...everything I hated about the music.  This song was about as Country as you can get and I LOVED IT.  I really, really loved it.  I found myself  listening all the time just to hear "this" song.  Of course, I discovered that I liked so many songs and the more "country sounding" the better. (Digging Up Bones, by Randy Travis, was also one of my first favorites...and that's real country!)

So thanks to "this" song, I've been hooked ever since! 

Fishing in the Dark

Lazy yellow moon coming up tonight

Shining through the trees

Crickets are singing

And the lightning bugs are floating on the breeze

Baby get ready

Across the field where the creek turns back

By the old stump road

I'm going to take you to a special place

That nobody knows

Baby get ready

Ooo ooo ooo

You and me going fishing in the dark

Lying on our backs and counting the stars

Where the cool grass grows

Down by the river in the full moon light

We’ll be falling in love in the middle of the night

Just moving slow

Staying the whole night through

Feels so good to be with you

Spring is almost over and the summers comin

The days are getting long

Waited all winter for the time to be right

Just to take you along

Baby get ready

And it don’t matter if we sit forever

And the fish don’t bite

Jump in the river and cool ourselves

from the heat of the night

Baby get ready

Ooo ooo ooo

You and me going fishin in the dark
Lying on our backs and counting the stars
Where the cool grass grows
Down by the river in the full moon light
We’ll be falling in love in the middle of the night
Just moving slow
Staying the whole night through
Feels so good to be with you