Nostalgia
I've been on a country music kick lately, specifically 70s and early 80s country. It's what I grew up listening to, so it's been a fun nostalgia trip to compile a list of songs that were in heavy rotation on my local country station back then. I keep thinking of just one more song that will make the list complete. I'm at 118 "just one mores" and counting.
Yesterday, I was playing this list, and Alabama's Roll On Eighteen Wheeler came on. If you're not familiar with the song, the lyrics, briefly, are about a man who drives an 18-wheeler for a living and who gets lost in a snowstorm on one of his runs. His family waits by the phone, praying for word that he's been found, and -- happy ending! -- he is, and he's fine. One of the lines is, "The man upstairs was listening when Mama asked him to bring Daddy home," and I had a good chuckle at myself remembering that when I was a kid, I always thought this meant that the family's upstairs neighbor had gone out looking for the lost trucker.
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