In a previous Sing Me A Story I looked at Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler“, a short story about a man who meets a gambler and gets some advice before he cashes in his last chip. This is not the only example of a good musical narrative, and it may not even be the best. Rivaling “The Gambler” is “Coward Of The County”, a single off his 1979 album Kenny. This was his second album and one of his crossover hits outside of country music.
As I’ve noted in quite a few previous Sing Me A Story articles covering country music there’s just something about this style that allows for a full on traditional narrative. Rather than just scenes from an incident or a series of incidents with a common theme this is a story on it’s own, which may be why, along with “The Gambler”, “Coward Of The County” had a movie. In both song and movie, Rogers portrays the uncle of a boy named Tommy, whose father dies in prison. Wanting his son to avoid his mistakes he makes the boy promise not to follow in his footsteps, but that promise is challenged when…well, let’s let the song tell the story.
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What did you think Bruce was doing all those years traveling the world? Learning how to punch? Why is so hard to believe that in searching for new ways of stealth combat and otherwise useless information about the world he wasn’t learning about people, too? For I think the reason he gives ex-cons a job so they won’t go back to being Penguin’s henchmen or something is that when studying criminals he realize that not every criminal commits crimes because they’re evil but because they’re fighting to survive. That’s why some ex-cons go back into crime, because they can’t adjust to a society that won’t give them a second chance. So he gives them that chance.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on August 17, 2022 in Uncategorized and tagged aspirational heroes, Batman, Captain America, commentary, Jedi, Luke Skywalker, Professor Geek, Superman.
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