The (Dixie) Chicks - Goodbye Earl

[VoR]

Their Glasto slot has reminded me how much I loved this deranged classic back in ‘99



I wonder how many abusive husbands have met a STICKY END as a direct result of this song? I’m pretty confident the answer isn’t zero

 

[RJN]

there’s not a more iconic line to scream in a group than “that Earl had to DIE”

 

[Marilyn]

Just think, for a few years this song was their biggest controversy

 

[RJN]

My impromptu, Home heavy, Dixie Chicks top 10

1. Travelin' Soldier ( )
2. Top of the World
3. Goodbye Earl
4. Not Ready To Make Nice
5. A Home
6. Long Time Gone
7. Landslide
8. There's Your Trouble
9. Truth, No. 2
10. Tortured, Tangled Hearts

 

[RJN]

Top 3 Dixie Chicks MOMENTS

1. And it didn't take 'em long to decide
That Earl had to DIE

2. One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said and the anthem sang
A man said folks would you bow your head
For the list of local Vietnam dead
Crying all alone under the stands
Was the piccolo player in the marching band
And one name read and nobody really cared
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair


3.
I made my bed, and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets, and I don't mind saying
It's a sad, sad story
When a mother will teach her daughter
That she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world
Can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Saying that I better
Shut up and sing
Or my life will be over?

 

[jivafox]

This gave me CHILLS when I saw it live, especially with the backdrop montage that featured loads of shitty men including CHRIS BROWN