{"id":3421,"date":"2022-03-05T17:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T17:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2022-03-06T13:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T13:53:14","slug":"aliens-god-and-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/aliens-god-and-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens, God, and Country Music?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I write to bring you the song \u201cTippin\u2019<\/a>\u201d by Dale Hollow and the Long Con.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always been a fan of southern gothic and the weirder side of country music, and this song brings the two together well. When I first discovered this song, I didn\u2019t consider it a work of sf, but this course has made me reassess that. I\u2019m still not sure how I would classify this song, but regardless, the lyrics present a non-traditional view of aliens and\/or God. Set in the frame of a drunken dream, the song also leads me to consider the role of altered states of consciousness (both natural and substance-induced) in thinking about our past and our future.<\/p>\n

Maybe this is all a big stretch, but even in that case, it\u2019s a fun song and definitely worth the listen.<\/p>\n

(Links: https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/7bnHGhyE1aiw83mSrPax3a<\/a>, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=692WeCngx1I<\/a>)<\/p>\n

LYRICS
\nI roved out in the field of the Lord
\nIn my two s.k.’s and a Jim\u2005Beam\u2005getting loaded
\nFor the\u2005task at hand, beast versus man
\nI\u2019m\u2005going to tip a heifer over while the rest of the herd is out lowing
\nOut in the pasture, out in the land
\nI don’t know where the bull is but I think that I like my chances
\nAs I made my approach the sky broke open and a voice said
\n\u201cDale what the hell do you think you’re doing?\u201d
\nWell the voice was God and he said \u201cDale Hollow
\nYou really gonna waste your whole life going out in the field going cow tipping?\u201d
\nI said \u201cYou\u2019re damn right, it’s a real good time
\nAnd if you don’t mind me I’m going to go and tip this cow\u2026
\nRight now!\u201d<\/p>\n

And the lights came down from the sky
\nAnd I felt my body lifted up from the ground
\nAnd I went into the light
\nAnd I left the Earth behind me\u2026
\n\u201cOh Lord, I’m so sorry\u2026 For everything that I’ve done
\nThese aliens! They want to hurt me! But they’re not ready, for The Long Con!\u201d<\/p>\n

I woke up at three in the morning
\nCovered in sweat and a Jim Beam on the floor
\nDidn’t understand where I\u2019d been
\nI was just in outer space but now I\u2019m at home all alone
\nWell it’s hard to believe, but it\u2019s safe to see
\nThat everything that happened was only a dream
\n\u201cThank you Lord for saving me! It’s blessing that this was all just a dream.\u201d
\nIt was all a dream!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, I write to bring you the song \u201cTippin\u2019\u201d by Dale Hollow and the Long Con. I\u2019ve always been a fan of southern gothic and the weirder side of country music, and this song brings the two together well. When I first discovered this song, I didn\u2019t consider it a work of sf, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}