Is that Old Dog Tray?

Along with most of Texas, I love the movie Tombstone. It’s probably one of the most quotable movies of all time and there’s a scene that reminds me of the uphill battle Texas Music fights weekly with Country Music Fan. You know the scene…

Everyone is drunk and Doc is playing a piano in the corner… the guy that played Lowell from Wings staggers up to him and slurs…

Billy Clanton: Is that “Old Dog Tray?” It sounds to me like “Old Dog Tray.”
You know, Stephen Foster.
“Oh, Susannah,” “Camptown Races.”
Stephen stinking Foster!

Doc: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne.

Billy Clanton: A which?

Doc: You know, Frederic Fucking Chopin.

Brilliant.

I was in this bar a few years back when this guy drunkenly interrupts the show by yelling out that he wants some old country, “…play some old country… play Trace’s Every Light in the House is On!!!”

Dang. Old country indeed. The song he interrupted… “The Fightin’ Side of Me”.

You know, Merle Fucking Haggard.