Country Music Terms:
Diminished fifth - An empty bottle of Jack Daniels. Perfect Fifth - A full bottle of Jack Daniels. Relative Major - An uncle in the Marine Corps. Relative Minor - A girlfriend. Big Band - When the bar pays enough to bring two banjo players. Repeat - What you do until they expel you. Treble - Women ain't nothing but. Bass - The things you run around in softball. Portamento - A foreign country you've always wanted to visit. Conductor - The man who punches your ticket to Birmingham. Tempo - Good choice for a used car. A440 - The highway that runs around Nashville. Transpositions - Men who wear dresses. Cut Time - parole. Order of Sharps - What a wimp gets at the bar. Passing tone - Frequently heard near the baked beans at family bar- be-ques Middle C - The only fruit drink you can afford when food stamps are low. Cadenza - That ugly thing your wife always vacuums dog hair off of ! when company comes. Whole note - What's due after failing to pay the mortgage for a year. Clef - What you try never to fall off. Bass Clef - Where you wind up if you do fall off. Minor third - Your approximate age and grade at the completion of formal schooling Melodic third - Loretta Lynn's singing dad. 12 tone scale - The thing the state police weigh your tractor trailer truck with. Quarter Tone - What most standard pick-ups can haul. Sonata - What you get from a bad cold or hay fever. Clarinet - Name used on your second daughter if you've already used Betty Jo. Cello - The proper way to answer the phone. Bassoon - Typical response when asked what you hope to catch. French Horn - Your wife says you smell like a cheap one when you come in at 4A.M. Cymbal - What they use on deer crossing signs so you know what to sight in your pistol with Bossa Nova - The car your foreman drives. Time signature - What you need f! rom your boss when you forget to clock in. First Inversion - Grand pa's battle group at Normandy. Staccato - How you did all the ceilings in your mobile home. Aeolian Mode - How you like Grandma's cherry pie. Bach Chorale - The place behind the barn where you keep the horses. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Listen to Internet Radio! Access to your favorite Artists! Click to listen to LAUNCHcast now! http://us.click.yahoo.com/PXvbED/GARHAA/n1hLAA/jGKolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> For further Z-related fun, please visit http://www.thebignote.com or http://www.killuglyradio.com , thank you. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zappa-List/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
