Joe South: Damn good singer-songwriter. This song is one of the best I've ever heard. The lyrics are marvelous, "8X10" chokes me up a bit. Love you, Joe. You rock for a country man. Didn't know you existed until a few days ago, but now I'm caught up on a lot of your stuff. Hush, Boondocks, Rose Garden, Walk a Mile--you can write a song that resonates, sir.
I love this song. Wonderful insight to human psychology really. It's usually understood as between a man and a woman but this song could be interpreted as politicians, two friends, siblings, any kind of human relation really.
I've always understood this to be between a man and a woman,, but "these days," it seems like it could very well describe politicians, from each and every party.
The games they play, "turn the backs on humanity, and they don't give a,,,,,,"
That's a sitar intro, so the Gretch is bogus. But God, I loved this song .. takes me back to high school and those carefree days of not having a clue to the shitstorm reality called life that was about to blow in. Thanks for the post!
@TheScStrat That's a Danelectro electric sitar which Joe detuned a third with light gauge strings to create that rubbery sound... the Gretsch was, yes, a prop for the video...
My father was Joe's CPA during these years. He told me that Joe tried to give him a Mercedes 280SL in payment of dad's accounting services. I met Joe when I was about 8 years old. I think that he is still living in the Atlanta area.
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@sportsjunkie228 Joe South let your father fuck him in his ass which is why he offered your dad that Mercedes 280SL.Nowdays Joe South gives away a box of Twinkees in exchange for anal sex.
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@GadaffiMonAmour He had more than one hit.
IwshIcldstrtover 3 months ago
Wrote a great song -- "The Greatest Love" -- best recorded by Billy Joe Royal...
AZjackstal 3 months ago
Great old song! I hadn't heard this one in a while, so I decided to look it up. Glad I did!
chewbacca0901 3 months ago
Oh do I remember this..........
MyBonnieblue 4 months ago
Just love it!!!!
bellamonde 4 months ago
Joe South: Damn good singer-songwriter. This song is one of the best I've ever heard. The lyrics are marvelous, "8X10" chokes me up a bit. Love you, Joe. You rock for a country man. Didn't know you existed until a few days ago, but now I'm caught up on a lot of your stuff. Hush, Boondocks, Rose Garden, Walk a Mile--you can write a song that resonates, sir.
JohnnyCxviii 5 months ago
all time great song the best all about life and death
wingully 5 months ago 2
Another great song that gives meaning to where you are at in life.
hardriveftcb 6 months ago
I love how at 3:04 Joe gets into that Ray Charles shoulder dance thing.
blueticecho 6 months ago
This was a good tune and I never get tired of that six-string guitar. Joe South was one good looking young man back then.
Tigerroux 6 months ago 3
the year this was a hit it was correct in its meaning
689321546 6 months ago
Should be theme song for the politicians in washington while the country goes down the tubes.
harv33z 7 months ago 2
LGAT tool. Great song, tho.
RapJack1970 7 months ago
Check out the King Curtis and Duane Allman instrumental version!
fangjangler 7 months ago
Love the guitar, the catchy tune, and yeah ... that's planet Earth in 2011.
shalimarsgirl 9 months ago
Brilliant song, fantastic lyrics. Thanks for the post
ontherails20 9 months ago
I love this song. Wonderful insight to human psychology really. It's usually understood as between a man and a woman but this song could be interpreted as politicians, two friends, siblings, any kind of human relation really.
OneKnuckleballinFool 9 months ago 2
I've always understood this to be between a man and a woman,, but "these days," it seems like it could very well describe politicians, from each and every party.
The games they play, "turn the backs on humanity, and they don't give a,,,,,,"
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 10 months ago 12
@rockinroller7 wikipedia (DOT) org/wiki/Games_People_Play_(book)
andyk13089 7 months ago
@andyk13089
Sorry, but without more specifics, (beyond an e-mail address), which may lead me somewhere I don't want to go, thanks, but no thanks.
(Also, you have very little to paractically no information on your page, which leaves me thinking, what's this guys "Game?")
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 7 months ago
@rockinroller7 It is the wikipedia page for the book about which the song was written you moron
andyk13089 7 months ago
@andyk13089 That was never confirmed by him, but most believe to be so.
bindingagony 5 months ago
Come on.. a committee songwriter from Bill Lowery's Atlanta stable in the sixties?
Jerry Reed could have written and recorded this song.... or the Tams..... or Buddy Buie..... or anyone south of Doraville.....
judahprince 10 months ago
That's a sitar intro, so the Gretch is bogus. But God, I loved this song .. takes me back to high school and those carefree days of not having a clue to the shitstorm reality called life that was about to blow in. Thanks for the post!
TheScStrat 1 year ago
@TheScStrat That's a Danelectro electric sitar which Joe detuned a third with light gauge strings to create that rubbery sound... the Gretsch was, yes, a prop for the video...
judahprince 10 months ago
@TheScStrat you know, as a rule I don't use profanity...but you really summed that up accurately!! Made me laugh out loud!
windsong1a 10 months ago
A really memorable song. Whenever I hear that guitar, I quit channel surfing on the radio!
1560438 1 year ago 2
awesome time and song
MrHoward55 1 year ago 2
Thanks for posting this great video. The song is a variation of the peace and love theme of the 60s & it still is valid today. A unique song.
mikeNC2141 1 year ago
My father was Joe's CPA during these years. He told me that Joe tried to give him a Mercedes 280SL in payment of dad's accounting services. I met Joe when I was about 8 years old. I think that he is still living in the Atlanta area.
sportsjunkie228 1 year ago
@sportsjunkie228 WOW MEMEORIES !!
RONALD511 1 year ago
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@sportsjunkie228 Joe South let your father fuck him in his ass which is why he offered your dad that Mercedes 280SL.Nowdays Joe South gives away a box of Twinkees in exchange for anal sex.
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blueticecho 8 months ago
Is He married?
vseas3 1 year ago
I wonder what his voice sounds like now.
vseas3 1 year ago
Thank you so much for sharing this.Another song of his that makes so much sense even today decades later.
maree021 1 year ago
Somehow, this song seems to make more sense than ever.......
markthelark 1 year ago 20
Didn't Jim Nabors do a god-awful cover of this?
donnalethal 1 year ago