Country Songs You Suspect Are Actually Subsidized Advertisements By Certain Industries or Govt.Departments

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I am forced to listen to current country radio at work and many of these songs strike me, quite unsubtley, as endorsements for certain products or ways of life (ways of life that are often associated with certain products) that I'm consistently flabbergasted. Specifically I just heard "Keg In The Closet" by Kenny Chesney. Not only is it vehemently anti-intellectualist but it's also a great beer ad! (Bonus Points for possibly leading some of these drunk college drop outs towards a "got no other option" military career!) Lyrics:

We had a dog named Bocephus livin in the front yard
He likes sleepin out on top of the car,
He drank beer out of a mason jar,
He'd climb up on everyone's bed.
A white frame house in a college town,
A bunch of people always hangin around,
No real problems we needed to drown,
But we tried our best anyway.
We went to class just to pass the time, back in 89'

(Chorus:)
We had a keg in the closet, pizza on the floor,
Left over from the night before.
Where we were going we didnt really care we had all we ever wanted,
And that keg in the closet.

This old guitar taught me how to score right there on the Lambda Chi Porch,
Mary Anne taught me a little more about wantin what you cant have.
Sweatshirts and flag football, Spring Breaks down in Panama,
For awhile we had it all we'd never dream it wouldn't last.
We went to class just to pass the time, back in 89'.

Chorus

We all kinda went our separate ways, but I swear it seems like yesterday.

Chrorus

Please assign a country song to each of these categories (or add another category yourself):

Department Of Agriculture
Department Of Defense
Department Of Transportation
The Beef Industry
Leather Wear Manufacturers
The Auto Industry

― default fake name, Saturday, 15 October 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

The Beef Industry

i've heard that reverend horton heat "eat steak" song in a commercial for... uh, outback steakhouse or something like that.

― astor riviera (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 15 October 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Kenny Chesney was the dandy of Lambda Chi?

Dept of Transportation = "Mercury Blues"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 15 October 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

DOD = "We'll Put a Boot In Your Ass (The Toothless American)" by Toby Keith.

Obv.

― Justin, Saturday, 15 October 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Kenny Chesney writes a song about something "in the closet" eh? Hmmm.

― gspm (gspm), Saturday, 15 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

"tequila makes her clothes fall off"

dr. cuervo continues to make a killing.

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

I don't really see anything "vehemently anti-intellectual" about that song, it's just a song about a guy who's not much of an intellectual.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

Toby Keith's "Stays in Mexico" seems like it was quite likely commissioned by the Mexican Bureau of Sex Tourism

― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone seen Darryl Worley and G.W. Bush in the same room?

"Have You Forgotten"
by Darryl Worley

I hear people saying we don't need this war
I say there's some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground?
We didn't get to keep 'em by backing down
They say we don't realize the mess we're getting in
Before you start preaching
Let me ask you this my friend

CHORUS 1
Have you forgotten how it felt that day
To see your homeland under fire
And her people blown away?
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside
Going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

They took all the footage off my T.V.
Said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger that's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it every day
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight
After 9/11 man I'd have to say that's right

I've been there with the soldiers
Who've gone away to war
And you can bet they remember
Just what they're fighting for

CHORUS 2
Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
All the loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?

Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?

― Roe Joe, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Except that Bush himself admitted that he doesn't think much about bin Laden.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Reason #284 to Turn the Channel During "Monday Night Football" Halftime Show:

Tim McGraw's tribute to the last 24 hours of NFL to the tune of "I Like It, I Love It"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

"You Don't Have To Lick It (Anymore)" by Brad Paisley might be about the recently unveiled self-adhesive stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service. OR maybe it's about blowjobs, and how he's sick of 'em.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

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