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Article: ALL I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM HANK WILLIAMS.(Brief Article)
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- Sojourners
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- March 1, 2000
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Ethics lessons from country music.
Cheatin' songs. That's real poor man music. Rich guys don't even understand somebody like Hank Williams. A rich man hardly needs a woman at all. If she runs away, who cares? He'll go get another one. But when you've got nothing and not much to look forward to, then if your woman runs off and you lose the one good thing in your life, man, that just about kills you.... We oughta get out of gospel and into cheatin' songs....
--Fictional gospel singer Wendell Shepherd in Garrison Keillor's WLT: A Radio Romance
That country music can teach us about Christian ethics may seem an odd claim. After all, country is the ...