Ya know, this is all around a great video. I LIKE THE BABES ! But now I can't show it to my 10 year old granddaughter. You should have either made it G - or X. You rode the fence. Now that I think about it... why don't you make two ?
@RodneyWelch Its concerns the context of the message( And on the seventh day He rested.) The spring planting would be over in May ,thus for a kid on the farm, it means a day off from the fields. The use of the word "hay" in this context ,would be that one reaps in the fall what one sows in the spring. It is a life lesson done in rural fashion ,which is the trademark of the man from the bluegrass, in his story telling songs.
I think he meant grass as in lawn,yard, someone probably just made a big deal out of nothing and he remade it just to not be misunderstood...but that is just my thought...not saying I'm right. My version is just plain ole innocent grass just like all the other simple things in life...except the bourbon, LOl...anyway it is a good song. Thanks.
bouron in a glass? Tom, I guess in writing through the eyes of a child happen to still see a splash of bourbon instead of milk ...maybe it was his way of saying i can't totally be child-like.
You are wrong and it was only in the mind of one tv censor who thought he meant pot. I've never heard another version, maybe there is one someplace. According to Tom he just didn't sing it on TV then. He has said the only thing he used to alter his mind was beer. That is from his own mouth. Tom is a blueGRASS singer from Kentucky... hard to imagine why grass would be something he would love.
WIRE radio always played the version with the word "grass" which refers to the smell of fresh cut grass in the spring. I've always heard the snog with the "grass" in it. He is one of the best songwriters in any time period. Ask Slim Dusty.
The grass reference in the song was NOT about marijuana, but about fresh-cut grass in the springtime. You need to understand that grass isn't always about drugs. Tom T Hall was just censored on a 1970s NBC TV-show over the "grass" thing for fear that viewers would get offended out of misinterpreting the lyrics, and that the issue then. Hence, the subsequent second version of the song with revised lyrics. But the average listener does know what Mr Hall was talking about.
He is talking about grass! Not Marijuana!!!! Just like someone else said he is reffering to simple things of life!!! Hay, Grass, Thats simple!!! Onions, even simpler!!! He didn't smoke mariguana and is not singing about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have tom halls book right here and in it he says he meant grass as in the yard or field and he knew it woudl be taken as meaning dope, but he wrote it anyway cause thats what he wanted to say even if some dummies woudl think it meant dope.
I hate that they made him change the word "grass" to be acceptable on radio! Them morons don't know what he was referring to and neither do I! And I don't care! Tom T. is probably the best "story teller" of all time!
It's GRASS people. The green stuff under your feet. He is singing about simple things in life that make him happy. If it was censored because of the word "grass" it is because other people infused their own ideas into what they thought it ment.
come on ! tom is one of the singers left that has the talent to entertain us , make us laugh , make us cry , and make us want to hear MORE ! all without out and out verbal porn . so bleepin what if he said "grass" almost reminds me of high school when rumors had it , the new hit "ding dong the wicked witch is dead "
is really about a drug bust that went bad for the cops
ok i'll end the "grass" disscussion once and for all. i'm from olive hill, ky. and anyone who knows tom t. hall know it's hometown. i live two door down from his sister, he still comes in to see his family from time to time. anyways i asked him on one of these trip in why they have two versions of this song....he gave me that ol' country laugh he has and said it was cause the radio was scared ppl would take it like any of you all did...weed. it's not its about the bluegrass that grows down here.
Regarding the "grass" discussion, remember that this song was released in 1973. In those days, marijuana was not yet considered an evil tool of the devil, but merely a harmless recreational chemical on par with alcohol, but safer. This song is a product of it's time, which should be considered by the listener... nowdays a singer might not include "grass," but he might include "youtube," for example. "And I... Love... YouTube!"
The man is from Kentucky and straight as an arrow except for maybe some Kentucky Bourbon. The grass is a reference to Kentucky Bluegrass which Kentucky is famous for.You would have to be country I suppose to understand the man writes his songs about life amongst his people and he doesn't needs drugs to get high on it.Now if you had listened to Sneaky Snake when you were young you wouldnt have gotten bit by the mocasin and the truck will last another year so it doesnt matter if dont have money!
I believe he was speaking of marijuana, because this song had other version, and in this version was censured the part in that Tom T. Hall speak about the bourbon and the grass (then the grass has to refer to the marijuana). So, if he doesn´t refer to drugs why did they censor this version and made another one saying "old tv shows and smoke"?
The version you are talking about is "old TV shows and snow" Why would he change it well there are people out there that just don't understand "Sunday School, Old Pick Up Trucks or just simply living right and in the country. You have a right to your opinion it just happens to be narrow and wrong and you would like it to be right so you can justify getting high, which surprize not everybody does. Thats my oponion&I dont think you can bring the man down to your level, especially in Kentucky.
@MataGigantes this song was censored due to the use of bourbon and was changed to milk. It was the 70's and what children heard was screened a lot more carefully than today.
@MataGigantes I guess it depends on how and where you grew up. The song came out in the first part of the 70's. and the grow culture hadn't really taken hold here yet. The then small culture expanded through the hippy generation in the late sixties in Ca. and hadn't spread into major grows until the late 70's . In the 70's the stuff was largely imported from Acapulco up through Baja with some from Thailand and Afghanistan into Baja. .I grew up in the Bluegrass! he did to! Why? small minds
@MataGigantes my friend carl was a sound engineer, and he worked with Mr Hall-the reason for the censoring was nothing more than FCC paranoia--because the grass reference was not made clearly to mean the grass that grows in your front yard, they felt it could be misconstrued as a weed reference.
@MataGigantes You should at least consider the possibility that they were actually censoring the reference to alcohol in an effort to make the song, which was already very sweet and sappy, competely "family friendly". As such, 'grass' would have been removed simply because it rhymed with the word "glass" but not the word "shows". Not that "smoke" is a particularly good rhyme for "shows", but that's beside the point...
@MataGigantes back in the days when this song was new the country was divided between hawks and doves, left and right, the generation gap, white socks and paisley shirts, etc. the word 'grass' had a different meaning to the two different sides. PROBABLY to avoid the older crowd thinking it meant 'pot' they changed it. i personally think it means the blue grass of KY.
@215jami. Sorry, currently live in KY and marijuana is the state's biggest cash crop and supplements the income of many people in the Eastern half of the state. I don't find it too far of a stretch to believe he is refering to the hippie lettuce, or, in the very least, is fully aware of the double entendre(sp?)
@215jami How do you know? You used to hang out with him? Burbon and grass go together. Why did they censor it if that wasn't what he meant and then used the word smoke instead in the censored version?
Not rocket science. I suppose you think the wine they refered to in the bible was grape juice to?
@215jami whats being from kentucky got to do with anything? ive lived her my whole life and the only thing i can tell you is kentucky has some of the funkiest budd ive seen in all of my 25-30 years of experiance with it. looks just like the shit youll see in hightimes and what you can get (i know from experiance) in the netherlands via amsterdam. and doesnt need drugs? WTF DO YOU THINK ALCOHOL IS?
@MrTrickydick666 Yeah ! It sorta shows that you have a lot of experience,30 years ago would be the eighties, a very long time after the song was written.
Honestly, I don't believe he was speaking of marijuana, however, if he was it is his choice. Songwriters are artists, any artform that is viewed by me is what I want to make of it. I feel that's the beauty of art. I qoute Kurt Cobain, "it's your own crossword puzzel".
Hello, I believe he was speaking of marijuana, because this song had other version, and in this version was censured the part in that Tom T. Hall speak about the bourbon and the grass (then the grass has to refer to the marijuana)
BY THE WAY - How many of you think Mr. Hall is speaking of marijuana when he says "grass"? I'd like to think he is, but what do you all think??? Tom has had some pretty left leaning subject matters at times.. makes me wonder.
Excellent vid, but you should replace these supermodels that don't care anything about guys who listen to Tom T Hall to some sweet country girls that wanna treat ya nice, not run off with your wallet. peace.
thank you...I have sung this song to my son so many nights..but I couldn't remember all the words...but I did remember Bourbon in a glass..thank for recording the origonal workd!!
Ya know, this is all around a great video. I LIKE THE BABES ! But now I can't show it to my 10 year old granddaughter. You should have either made it G - or X. You rode the fence. Now that I think about it... why don't you make two ?
MegaYoung54 1 week ago
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madocmayhem 4 weeks ago
Very nice
madocmayhem 4 weeks ago
VERY NICE, WELL DONE..
jonymopar 1 month ago
This makes a beautiful song 10 times more beautiful
Charles310872 2 months ago
the grass line is about real grass, for his cows, not the smoking kind!
ThePeterbiltrucker 2 months ago
The best things in life right there fella's. Life got to complicated. Bout breaks my heart.
xorginalxgamerx 2 months ago
Bourbon in a glass, and GRASS. You know what he's talkin about. Yeah!!!
bill4long 3 months ago
@bill4long I'd like to agree but he also said "AND HAY" which makes me think he's just talking about grass and hay and stuff.
Charles310872 2 months ago
I love this song but the squirrels I love is the one laying flat on the road.....
onetruecanadian 3 months ago in playlist onetruecanadian's favorites
and onions..
owlkid21 3 months ago 2
It's "Old TV shows and snow"!
KJTV67 5 months ago
i love... this song and haow the girls keep getting hotter as the song goes on!
bonnielea14 6 months ago
The first song of Tom T Hall, I heard. In about twenty years ago. My favorite from him. Every time I listen to it, I was near tears...
mozek1100mb 6 months ago
Haters don't like this song .
carnut476 6 months ago
Thism is such a fantastic song! I love Tom T. Hall!
darrell1934 6 months ago
What's the deal with Sunday School in May? Is it better than Sunday School in April?
RodneyWelch 7 months ago
@RodneyWelch yup, April showers bring May flowers and a beautiful day in May with nature's glory is better than anything.
der2035 7 months ago
@RodneyWelch Its concerns the context of the message( And on the seventh day He rested.) The spring planting would be over in May ,thus for a kid on the farm, it means a day off from the fields. The use of the word "hay" in this context ,would be that one reaps in the fall what one sows in the spring. It is a life lesson done in rural fashion ,which is the trademark of the man from the bluegrass, in his story telling songs.
215jami 6 months ago
@215jami Thank you for a most astute and informative answer.
RodneyWelch 6 months ago
those look like bales of straw on a harvested grain field...but he probably likes straw too :)
morengair 8 months ago
If he were making hits still today, he'd mention real "grass". Tom was a story-teller.
yourOpinionNotMine 9 months ago
im amolst certain i heard a version of this on the radio today where he says "i love tin can pipes"
bless you all and your wishfull thinking, oooh theres no way a musician could smoke a little pot....
coolestpyro 9 months ago
I didn't know there was a censored version.
kittyprydekissme 9 months ago
i luv tom t hall
wwjd123faye 9 months ago
How could three people not LOVE this song?
bagman4175 10 months ago
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BeyondNeptune 10 months ago
I think he meant grass as in lawn,yard, someone probably just made a big deal out of nothing and he remade it just to not be misunderstood...but that is just my thought...not saying I'm right. My version is just plain ole innocent grass just like all the other simple things in life...except the bourbon, LOl...anyway it is a good song. Thanks.
58jturner 10 months ago
I agree, U2 is a great band.
nicklesaj05 11 months ago
bouron in a glass? Tom, I guess in writing through the eyes of a child happen to still see a splash of bourbon instead of milk ...maybe it was his way of saying i can't totally be child-like.
great song ..touching.
rockyrmt 1 year ago
that sunday school in may looks like Buddist voodoo...
ButchBikes 1 year ago
this is fuckin retarded sounds like a child wrote it
yelhsa3840 1 year ago
yea it might be retarded but it sounds alot better then the crap they have on the radio today
blackhawk569 1 year ago
@yelhsa3840 ......you are retarded you imbecille.....it was on a childrens album einstein!!
netofgems 11 months ago
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netofgems 11 months ago
I remember this song when it came out and I have never heard the word milk instead of bourbon.
LiberalSri 1 year ago
@LiberalSri I haven't either. The other version(s) I've heard has it saying coffee in a cup.
admstacks 11 months ago
Don't read too much into the lyrics - it's a song/
LiberalSri 1 year ago
Hi everyone
I'm searching for the Tom T Hall song -I SEE-, a bit look a like this song If anyone has this song, please post it.
Thanks in advance. Anyway: have a nice day.
renger29 1 year ago
A timeless classic, I'm 40 and remember this osng from when I was little ....I love how you did the video..... awesome vid , thanks
jdfred1970 1 year ago
and .. and twins!!!
dump09 1 year ago
WOW....What a GREAT VIDEO. Perfect pics!
mocalsa 1 year ago
The song was censored because of the use of bourbon, and us children at the time, learned the song with milk instead.
iLuvZCj 1 year ago
is he singin i love you tube
angryamerican73 1 year ago
Great job! Were those squirrels?
33UncleSam 1 year ago
@33UncleSam No, actually they are not squirrels, but they are adorable too :D
MataGigantes 1 year ago
@MataGigantes Those are prairie dogs, which are a type of squirrel. So they are appropriate.
kittyprydekissme 9 months ago
@33UncleSam No they were ground hogs.
tallen2306 1 year ago
@33UncleSam Those were actually Prairie Dawgs.
dgjacks 1 year ago
grass....old slang
jbyrd0861 1 year ago
i love bourbon in my grass. ...because it sucks and i pour it out and drink beer. ...because - I LIKE BEER!
harlesslee 1 year ago
You are wrong and it was only in the mind of one tv censor who thought he meant pot. I've never heard another version, maybe there is one someplace. According to Tom he just didn't sing it on TV then. He has said the only thing he used to alter his mind was beer. That is from his own mouth. Tom is a blueGRASS singer from Kentucky... hard to imagine why grass would be something he would love.
Oh and 'hay' and 'grass' are not the same thing.
snipehunter1 1 year ago
UM.. 0_o
you DO know that this song was for his granddaughter right?
lol otherwise great video!
Amyjay1059 1 year ago
TOM HALL "Friends Hay Hearts & Love"
www41WorldUSAcom 1 year ago
MataGigantes, I think this was wonderful!
bhappy526 1 year ago 2
@bhappy526 thank you!!!! :D
MataGigantes 1 year ago
I want this song at my funeral ITS ME
SaintTony1968 1 year ago
he covered grass in that he loves hay
so grass is pot,
yay
oregonsurfer 1 year ago
killer vid! *****! clarence
IMTheMagicRat 1 year ago
WIRE radio always played the version with the word "grass" which refers to the smell of fresh cut grass in the spring. I've always heard the snog with the "grass" in it. He is one of the best songwriters in any time period. Ask Slim Dusty.
luk1954 1 year ago 2
I LOVE THIS SONG. So many childhood memories!
FlyAvenueOnTheHedge 1 year ago
The grass reference in the song was NOT about marijuana, but about fresh-cut grass in the springtime. You need to understand that grass isn't always about drugs. Tom T Hall was just censored on a 1970s NBC TV-show over the "grass" thing for fear that viewers would get offended out of misinterpreting the lyrics, and that the issue then. Hence, the subsequent second version of the song with revised lyrics. But the average listener does know what Mr Hall was talking about.
case139 1 year ago
He is talking about grass! Not Marijuana!!!! Just like someone else said he is reffering to simple things of life!!! Hay, Grass, Thats simple!!! Onions, even simpler!!! He didn't smoke mariguana and is not singing about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GeorgeJonesFan100 1 year ago 2
@GeorgeJonesFan100 in all fairness, i feel like onions are not simpler than either grass or marijuana. they have layers, you see. just like ogres. ;)
pukeyknox 1 year ago
i have tom halls book right here and in it he says he meant grass as in the yard or field and he knew it woudl be taken as meaning dope, but he wrote it anyway cause thats what he wanted to say even if some dummies woudl think it meant dope.
shaneshopnet 1 year ago 2
I hate that they made him change the word "grass" to be acceptable on radio! Them morons don't know what he was referring to and neither do I! And I don't care! Tom T. is probably the best "story teller" of all time!
michaelt2u 1 year ago
It's GRASS people. The green stuff under your feet. He is singing about simple things in life that make him happy. If it was censored because of the word "grass" it is because other people infused their own ideas into what they thought it ment.
Elderhamm 1 year ago
And I love...this song
martinjsxx 2 years ago 2
Wait a minute.. those are squirrels?
mkp823 2 years ago
still think tis is the greatest country song ever!!!
hemi41102 2 years ago 2
please check out "stand up comedy jim hollister"
mazak6811 2 years ago
come on ! tom is one of the singers left that has the talent to entertain us , make us laugh , make us cry , and make us want to hear MORE ! all without out and out verbal porn . so bleepin what if he said "grass" almost reminds me of high school when rumors had it , the new hit "ding dong the wicked witch is dead "
is really about a drug bust that went bad for the cops
bigdipdilly 3 years ago
ok i'll end the "grass" disscussion once and for all. i'm from olive hill, ky. and anyone who knows tom t. hall know it's hometown. i live two door down from his sister, he still comes in to see his family from time to time. anyways i asked him on one of these trip in why they have two versions of this song....he gave me that ol' country laugh he has and said it was cause the radio was scared ppl would take it like any of you all did...weed. it's not its about the bluegrass that grows down here.
hemi41102 3 years ago 4
Ya kinda took the fun out of it, Hemi. I guess there really such a thing as "too much information."
clinicallydepressed 3 years ago
Grow up!!! It's just a good "ole" song...What it means too you...It might not mean to anybody else, It's a good song
sparkymann95 3 years ago 3
Regarding the "grass" discussion, remember that this song was released in 1973. In those days, marijuana was not yet considered an evil tool of the devil, but merely a harmless recreational chemical on par with alcohol, but safer. This song is a product of it's time, which should be considered by the listener... nowdays a singer might not include "grass," but he might include "youtube," for example. "And I... Love... YouTube!"
clinicallydepressed 3 years ago
music when it's good, PISS POOR CHOICES THERE HOSS
Veener67 3 years ago
awesome video!
jimbo2317 3 years ago 2
The man is from Kentucky and straight as an arrow except for maybe some Kentucky Bourbon. The grass is a reference to Kentucky Bluegrass which Kentucky is famous for.You would have to be country I suppose to understand the man writes his songs about life amongst his people and he doesn't needs drugs to get high on it.Now if you had listened to Sneaky Snake when you were young you wouldnt have gotten bit by the mocasin and the truck will last another year so it doesnt matter if dont have money!
215jami 3 years ago 9
I believe he was speaking of marijuana, because this song had other version, and in this version was censured the part in that Tom T. Hall speak about the bourbon and the grass (then the grass has to refer to the marijuana). So, if he doesn´t refer to drugs why did they censor this version and made another one saying "old tv shows and smoke"?
MataGigantes 3 years ago
The version you are talking about is "old TV shows and snow" Why would he change it well there are people out there that just don't understand "Sunday School, Old Pick Up Trucks or just simply living right and in the country. You have a right to your opinion it just happens to be narrow and wrong and you would like it to be right so you can justify getting high, which surprize not everybody does. Thats my oponion&I dont think you can bring the man down to your level, especially in Kentucky.
215jami 3 years ago
George Washington grew hemp and marijuana
poolpig 3 years ago
By "snow" he meant cocaine
Daburnsman 3 years ago
That's true and by "Old TV shows" he meant homosexual sex.
mikeyramone74 3 years ago
Wow that made me literally laugh out loud
Daburnsman 3 years ago
@MataGigantes Um, it's "Old tv shows and snow" not smoke.
stavo2165 1 year ago
@MataGigantes this song was censored due to the use of bourbon and was changed to milk. It was the 70's and what children heard was screened a lot more carefully than today.
iLuvZCj 1 year ago
@MataGigantes I guess it depends on how and where you grew up. The song came out in the first part of the 70's. and the grow culture hadn't really taken hold here yet. The then small culture expanded through the hippy generation in the late sixties in Ca. and hadn't spread into major grows until the late 70's . In the 70's the stuff was largely imported from Acapulco up through Baja with some from Thailand and Afghanistan into Baja. .I grew up in the Bluegrass! he did to! Why? small minds
215jami 1 year ago
@MataGigantes my friend carl was a sound engineer, and he worked with Mr Hall-the reason for the censoring was nothing more than FCC paranoia--because the grass reference was not made clearly to mean the grass that grows in your front yard, they felt it could be misconstrued as a weed reference.
superpaperdude 1 year ago
@MataGigantes You should at least consider the possibility that they were actually censoring the reference to alcohol in an effort to make the song, which was already very sweet and sappy, competely "family friendly". As such, 'grass' would have been removed simply because it rhymed with the word "glass" but not the word "shows". Not that "smoke" is a particularly good rhyme for "shows", but that's beside the point...
GeorgeLusk 10 months ago
@MataGigantes back in the days when this song was new the country was divided between hawks and doves, left and right, the generation gap, white socks and paisley shirts, etc. the word 'grass' had a different meaning to the two different sides. PROBABLY to avoid the older crowd thinking it meant 'pot' they changed it. i personally think it means the blue grass of KY.
johnrunion 9 months ago
@215jami wasn't ole Tom Cat in rehab back in the early 80's?
ThePaleHorseman5 1 year ago
@215jami I'm drinking Jim Beam Black right now..
POBulkhead 1 year ago
@215jami. Sorry, currently live in KY and marijuana is the state's biggest cash crop and supplements the income of many people in the Eastern half of the state. I don't find it too far of a stretch to believe he is refering to the hippie lettuce, or, in the very least, is fully aware of the double entendre(sp?)
IndyBear92 1 year ago
@215jami How do you know? You used to hang out with him? Burbon and grass go together. Why did they censor it if that wasn't what he meant and then used the word smoke instead in the censored version?
Not rocket science. I suppose you think the wine they refered to in the bible was grape juice to?
aurabgnik 10 months ago
@215jami whats being from kentucky got to do with anything? ive lived her my whole life and the only thing i can tell you is kentucky has some of the funkiest budd ive seen in all of my 25-30 years of experiance with it. looks just like the shit youll see in hightimes and what you can get (i know from experiance) in the netherlands via amsterdam. and doesnt need drugs? WTF DO YOU THINK ALCOHOL IS?
MrTrickydick666 8 months ago
@MrTrickydick666 Yeah ! It sorta shows that you have a lot of experience,30 years ago would be the eighties, a very long time after the song was written.
215jami 8 months ago
@MrTrickydick666 lame, just shut up and enjoy the song
brendology 6 months ago
@215jami lame, he loves weed. get over it.
brendology 6 months ago
I don't know for sure what is was thinking.
Honestly, I don't believe he was speaking of marijuana, however, if he was it is his choice. Songwriters are artists, any artform that is viewed by me is what I want to make of it. I feel that's the beauty of art. I qoute Kurt Cobain, "it's your own crossword puzzel".
Great song! Thank you for sharing it!
boyington99 3 years ago
Hello, I believe he was speaking of marijuana, because this song had other version, and in this version was censured the part in that Tom T. Hall speak about the bourbon and the grass (then the grass has to refer to the marijuana)
MataGigantes 3 years ago
BY THE WAY - How many of you think Mr. Hall is speaking of marijuana when he says "grass"? I'd like to think he is, but what do you all think??? Tom has had some pretty left leaning subject matters at times.. makes me wonder.
mdpk1 3 years ago
Excellent vid, but you should replace these supermodels that don't care anything about guys who listen to Tom T Hall to some sweet country girls that wanna treat ya nice, not run off with your wallet. peace.
mdpk1 3 years ago
Superbly done!
humanist7117 3 years ago 5
great vid
winterborn82 3 years ago 7
i love this song too as it's easy listening music to my ears i love all tom t halls music 5 stars for him.
Bigcountryman3469 3 years ago 4
HA, I love this song, it's so completely random it's not even funny. This has to be the best song ever. :-)
Tux923 3 years ago 3
omg its ernies songggg!
:]
musicislifeeex 3 years ago
One of my favorite songs
Will be played at my funeral
Just love the words
Thank you for making a great song Tom T Hall
And matagigantes GREAT CLIP
SaintTony1968 3 years ago 3
great video great song has it all well done
bradliz7 3 years ago 11
From ear to ear! :) 5 stars!
HoneyBaer 3 years ago 6
Nicely done!
MonetteBooks 3 years ago 6
Excellent!
sis1963 4 years ago 6
Really good video for a great song!
no1cfielder 4 years ago 6
Nice job....Great song
GKLAKEMAN 4 years ago 8
thank you...I have sung this song to my son so many nights..but I couldn't remember all the words...but I did remember Bourbon in a glass..thank for recording the origonal workd!!
suziepenn 4 years ago 6