Ruby is going out looking for some (BIG) dicks/male sausages/penisses. That's all she wants and need. She likes TP's aswell. Same like nowadays with all the homeless people. In a certain historical way it's "funny" that (religious usa, the blacks) seems to skip daniel and goliath, also the roman empire who taught they would rule this entire world. Finally this one: After the purpose murder of Martin Luther King blacks devided more than ever.
Probably my favorite Kenny song is when he had a group called the First Edition called "I Just Checked In To See What Condition My Condition Was In". Trippy, almost psychedelic, great song and it was a big hit.
Mel Tillis was a country singer and star in his own right. The unique thing about Mel is he stuttered terribly when he spoke, but not at all when he sang.
Yes, it's dark. But this song made a lot of people really think about the physical AND psychological damage inflicted by war. And it was while it was all still whirling around us..in the news, in the individual stories around us. Thanks for doing this one. Very important song.☮
I was 12 years old when this song was released. The war was still raging with actual footage of men being carried off the battlefield on the news. It had a profound affect on me.🥺
Kathryn - Right there with you. I had a cousin in VietNam then I later (at 16) met a young man who had lost both legs from knees down. Profound affect on me.
When I was 10 my brother was drafted, went and served. It screwed him up. He became an acholic and died 3 years ago on Thanksgiving. But he had a heart of gold!!!!! He was treated like crap when he got back. However..... I was shielded as a young child to all that went on in Vietnam. I thank God for that. I pray for all those who had loved ones who had to deal with the horrors that ,that war put them thru!
@@Dee-JayW Mel Tillis, the writer, is quoted saying it’s based on a couple he knew. The man was badly wounded in WWII. Ruby, “his war bride from England”, was 1 of the nurses who “helped to bring him around to somewhat of a life.” They wed & moved to Palm Beach, FL, where Tillis met them. “He’d get drunk & accuse Ruby of everything under the sun.” The couple later divorced. “Asian War” was apparently used just because it lyrically fit.
My brother on law thought the same. I was playing it and sang the line.. his face went to thought and he said he had never realized it was hungry children.. and just 4 😅
Someone named Mel Tillis, was a country superstar. Great singer and very funny. He had a studded when he talked and he used it well. Never shuddered when he sang!
"Maybe she goin' to the gym!" That one made me laugh, bro. In the middle of Kenny being as dark as he ever got, about a dark subject, that one brought a smile. 😀 Of course, the truth is, freedom isn't free, it takes a toll. We need to support our heroes, especially the ones who paid such a price as this one, in body and mind. This old world isn't the best of neighborhoods, with enemies who'd love to take us for everything we have, and leave us all starving or dead. If not for people like this brave soul, we don't have a country. So, Ruby can just sit tight a little bit, give him the respect he's due.
I had to run the video back to be sure I heard Van correctly! Before Idid, though, I laughed like hell! 🤣 Nice job on this old song, Van. The last few weeks you have been hitting a lot of them over the (outfield) fence. Thank you.
My favorite song by him. It came out in 1969 during Vietnam, and the line: "it wasn't me that started that ol crazy Asian war, but I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore" came through loud and clear.
The articles I've read was that it was about a couple Tillis knew from WWII, & "Asian War" was apparently used just because it lyrically fit. From an interview in American Songwriter; Tillis, the writer, is quoted as saying the man was badly wounded in WWII. Ruby, “his war bride from England”, was 1 of the nurses who “helped to bring him around to somewhat of a life.” They wed & moved to Palm Beach, FL, where Tillis met them. “He’d get drunk & accuse Ruby of everything under the sun.” The couple later divorced. [edited to add interview details].
Didn't know that, good info. Always thought it was the Vietnam war but if it was written in '66 it could mean the Koran War. Just checked Wikipedia (I know, but had to look somewhere) and they wrote that Tillis has said it was about WWII. Obviously there's the Pacific Theater but we don't refer to it as that "Asian war". So I looked a little further. The magazine American Songwriter wrote an article on this song. They quote Tillis saying the song is actually about a soldier who came home from the war in 1947 and brought with him his bride from England. So Ruby, in real life, was a war bride from the UK.
You see, this was the what happened to many of the soldiers coming back. Suffering from PTSD and with horrific injuries to their bodies, They were looked on as baby killers and had eggs and stuff thrown on them as they arrived home. Their friends were dead and they had survivors guilt and their women didn't want them anymore either.
I was born in '70 and my parents were KRogers fans so I heard this song many times. But I was too young to realize the full meaning and implications of the lyrics. Wow... it's heavy.
it's a bit of a murder ballad sort of. Lots of singers have done murder ballads, even Olivia Newton-John who sang about stabbing a man to death who spurned her in her hit song the Banks of the Ohio "I held a knife against his breast As into my arms he pressed He cried "my love, don't you murder me I'm not prepared for eternity" I cried, "My God, what have I done?" I've killed the only man I love He would not take me for his bride"
That's one F'd up situation. Correct he shouldn't kill her but at the same time she's constantly killing what little he has left. His love, dignity and hope to be love for the short amount of time he has left...
Most people thus song was about Vietnam but was actually written about Korea by Mel Tellis. Due to when Kenny released the song which is by far the best known as far as I know was during Vietnam. Actually fits both but just throwing it out their
One thing to keep in mind when listening to songs about veterans from the Viet Nam war is they had no choice. You were drafted if you were poor because college kids were exempt, and if your luck ran out you came home in a box, or crippled. He'd probably just as easily kill the government that sent him over there, but Ruby is all there is.
Before Kenny Rogers had a great solo career he was the lead singer for a band called "The First Edition" and that's where this song originally came from. If you want to see a Very Young Kenny Rogers singing "Ruby" with "The First Edition" I have included the link for the video that's here on You Tube ruclips.net/video/C1e9p6J89rQ/видео.html
I always wondered about that last line, "For God's sake, turn around." I read in Wiki that Mel Tillis changed the original ending, which used to be much different. It ended in a murder-suicide.
I was born in ‘62. I remember many guys in our neighborhood coming back. Many older brothers of my friends. Lots of tension in those households. Bad times
One of my favorite Kenny Rogers songs. I really like the instrumentation and simplicity. Two more songs you can check out are 'Blaze of Glory' and 'Ruben James.'
I was 9 also and had the 45 vinyl, lol. I started young. I started buying 45 singles when I was 7 years old...for real. Every week my mom let me pick one out. I started very young. I was in a Beatle's band when I was 5 😊
@@harper_anne2089 that’s cool . Ya , I started buying 45’s early too , probably 9? Fire and Rain I think was my first and that’s 1970, so ya was nine . We are lucky to come up then , with that amazing music
This song was on his first album, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, the hit song on that ablum was (Just Droppied In to see) "What Contition my Condition was In".
Many soldiers came back from Vietnam without their arms or legs etc. When they got back home to their wives and girlfriends, life was changed forever. Most wives stayed with their now mangled and disabled husbands, but some either left, or simply cheated on their wheelchair bound husbands. This song is about one of those ladies (Ruby) that would leave her paralyzed husband alone at home every weekend, so she could out to the Bars and find other young men, to fulfill her womanly needs, that her husband at home, could no longer perform. Very sad, but true stories like this happened to many Vietnam Vets in the 1960s. Great song.
This song brings me back to riding in my Grandpops old pickup. He loved Kenny Rogers boy... I knew all the words and sang it along with him. I didn't know the real meaning of the song... was just a little guy. Brings a tear to my eye everytime I hear it.. remembering him and what the song represents. Thanks for this one man. 👍🏾🇺🇸
Mel Tillis that's a rabbit hole you'll enjoy going down. He was a stutterer in the movie Cannonball Run and the used car salesman His daughter Pam Tillis is a singer as well. Some women want to be took care of Not take care of someone. Check out a Kenny Rogers song It was the theme song to the movies SixPack. A cute southern 80's racecar movie. With Linda Grey.
Mel Tillis is also a legend in Country Music. Great singer/songwriter. Mel stutters when he talks, but doesn't when he sings. Another song that's a lot like this one is, "Don't take your guns to town son" written & sung by Johnny Cash.
This song could always make me cry. So many of our friends or boyfriends or brothers came back from Nam changed....if not physically, then mentally. I had 2 friends return so changed they couldn't bear to live. Not all lives were lost before they made it home. An ugly. Unnecessary, hoax of a war.
Really great reaction! This was always such a sad song. There were a lot of people going through this type of scenario because of the Vietnam war (as there are with any war). But it wasn't really openly discussed, just kind of whispered about. I enjoyed your reaction and I look forward to seeing more.
When my husband was dying of cancer, I could never have imagined leaving him, or cheating on him...I took care of him till his last breath, he loved me, but I could see how a man could be filled with anger after a war took everything from him...He's desperate, my husband was a Vietnam vet, 9 years older than me, I could never have cheated! I still love him through all eternity...
I love that one of my favorite singers is topping lists for new generations. He sings a beautiful Christmas song call Mary Did You Know that's well worth a listen too. Thanks for the memories.
Mel Tillis was a wonderful singer/songwriter has many great country songs and was a popular guy to appear in a talk shows as he had a very pronounce stutter. He didn't stutter when he sang though. One of my favorite songs of his is "Coke Cola Cowboy". Mel is the father of Pam Tillis a great country singer in her own right with hits such as "Maybe it Was Memphis". "Cleopatra Queen of Denial" and many others.
Live this song because it reminds me of my Dad mat he RIP. He used to cut up & make up some if the funniest lyrics of his own. We used to together back when I was a young girl. Man those were some if the best days I'll never forget. But I adore Kenny Rogers & one if my all time favs.songs that always sent chills was Lady written by another artist I listened to a whole lot of when he was with the Commodors & as a single artist the great Lionel Richie. His voice also touched my soul as well. Both were top notch in my opinion. True greats in my youth & introduction to the awesome art of🎵 🎶 music. Blessed to have experienced in my life thus far so many of the best artist ever. Legendary to me. And so many memories invested in their songs. Facts.🧡Thank you Van & hopes for you. & yours in having an AWESOME weekend 🤜🏼💯🤛🏼
I’ve heard this so many times in my life, mostly when I was in my teens. I always enjoyed the music, but never paid much attention to the words, just a couple of lines here and there. I had no idea what this was about until now. The part about wanting to kill her, I always took to mean that he was really frustrated and angry with her, but he would never actually do it. I’m 58 now, and I definitely have a new appreciation for this song.
LOL Don't confuse Van. The song's title is "Lucille", not "You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me". Just sayin...it'll be easier for him to find it if he has the right title.😉
Another awesome Kenny Rogers song and another awesome reaction. My heart bleeds for the Vietnam Vets, they were treated horribly, people spat on them and called them baby killers. They didn't deserve that, so I'd like to say to all the Vietnam Vets, welcome home brother, thank you for your service.
5:30 - You're being naive dude. Ruby doesn't just want to go dancing. She's taking her LOVE to town. That means she wants the ol' pickle tickle. Stop making excuses for Ruby. I mean it's not like the guy lost his tongue in the war if you catch my drift. This man fought for his country and this is the treatment he gets?
Mel Tillis was not only a great songwriter, but a great singer as well. The ironic thing was that he spoke with a pronounced stutter that went away when he sang, so he would sing what he wanted to say to people.
As a Vietnam Veteran, I fully understand. For many of us during Vietnam, we had three options, accept being drafted, go to jail or go to Canada. 58,220 died during that war. 61% who died were under 21. 11,465 were younger than 20 years old, including 5 who were 16 years old. 75,000 severely disabled. The average age of those who died was 23. I makes me angry that age limits for alcohol, tobacco, good insurance rate, good mortgage rates are for those 21 and over. Yes, there is has been no draft since 1975, but young men still have to register with Selective Service at 18. So, if the government believes that an 18 year old is mature enough to collect bullet with his body for the freedom of this country, then he is damn sure mature enough to decide and be able to buy anything that an adult of any older age is able to buy including tobacco and alcohol. Insurance companies and mortgage companies should be fined for age discrimination.
Old school! I heard this as a kid driving with my Momma. Jealousy can be a dangerous thing, she told me. Another example is Tom Jones singing Delilah! 😹 For another chapter in Guys behaving badly!!!
Yes, that phrase is dark. The entire song is dark. He was drafted to Nam and while there he got seriously wounded and now he is paralyzed and terminally ill. Because he's paralyzed he can no longer have sex... it just doesn't work because of the nerves being cut off from the brain. So now she's headed out to go get herself some and he's begging her not to go and just hold on until after he's gone because he still loves her and needs her support/companionship. The fact that she leaves anyway, despite his desperate begging makes him so angry and feel betrayed that he feels that he would put her in the ground... if only he could reach his gun
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Ruby is going out looking for some (BIG) dicks/male sausages/penisses. That's all she wants and need. She likes TP's aswell. Same like nowadays with all the homeless people. In a certain historical way it's "funny" that (religious usa, the blacks) seems to skip daniel and goliath, also the roman empire who taught they would rule this entire world. Finally this one: After the purpose murder of Martin Luther King blacks devided more than ever.
That is exactly what he is saying.
Probably my favorite Kenny song is when he had a group called the First Edition called "I Just Checked In To See What Condition My Condition Was In". Trippy, almost psychedelic, great song and it was a big hit.
I've been trying to get someone to react to that one. Classic psychedelic.
Great song that,was written by the great country songwriter Mickey Newbury.I agree needs reacted too.
@@wgj4everlong426 and I thon Van is the one to do it justice.
I always thought maybe he managed to get his gun and was giving her last plea, I thought the end was desperte in a threatening way.
Yes, Ruby was my fav by him, and Mary Arnold was mean on the tambourine 😊
Mel Tillis was a country singer and star in his own right. The unique thing about Mel is he stuttered terribly when he spoke, but not at all when he sang.
Yes, it's dark. But this song made a lot of people really think about the physical AND psychological damage inflicted by war. And it was while it was all still whirling around us..in the news, in the individual stories around us.
Thanks for doing this one. Very important song.☮
I was 12 years old when this song was released. The war was still raging with actual footage of men being carried off the battlefield on the news. It had a profound affect on me.🥺
Kathryn - Right there with you. I had a cousin in VietNam then I later (at 16) met a young man who had lost both legs from knees down. Profound affect on me.
When I was 10 my brother was drafted, went and served. It screwed him up. He became an acholic and died 3 years ago on Thanksgiving. But he had a heart of gold!!!!! He was treated like crap when he got back. However..... I was shielded as a young child to all that went on in Vietnam. I thank God for that. I pray for all those who had loved ones who had to deal with the horrors that ,that war put them thru!
This references the KOREAN war.
@@Dee-JayW Mel Tillis, the writer, is quoted saying it’s based on a couple he knew. The man was badly wounded in WWII. Ruby, “his war bride from England”, was 1 of the nurses who “helped to bring him around to somewhat of a life.” They wed & moved to Palm Beach, FL, where Tillis met them. “He’d get drunk & accuse Ruby of everything under the sun.” The couple later divorced. “Asian War” was apparently used just because it lyrically fit.
This song, Lucille and Ruben James were the three Kenny songs I remember most from my childhood.
Ruben James is my favorite Kenny Rogers' song
@@traceyvavrecan6714 I think it’s probably my favorite too.
Lucille would be a great reaction. I'm gonna have to go back and hear Ruben James.
Lucille is one of those as a child I loved. But walked around singing wrong. "Four hundred children..." lol
My brother on law thought the same. I was playing it and sang the line.. his face went to thought and he said he had never realized it was hungry children.. and just 4 😅
Someone named Mel Tillis, was a country superstar. Great singer and very funny. He had a studded when he talked and he used it well. Never shuddered when he sang!
"Maybe she goin' to the gym!" That one made me laugh, bro. In the middle of Kenny being as dark as he ever got, about a dark subject, that one brought a smile. 😀
Of course, the truth is, freedom isn't free, it takes a toll. We need to support our heroes, especially the ones who paid such a price as this one, in body and mind. This old world isn't the best of neighborhoods, with enemies who'd love to take us for everything we have, and leave us all starving or dead. If not for people like this brave soul, we don't have a country. So, Ruby can just sit tight a little bit, give him the respect he's due.
The Gym? Really??? Always one in every crowd..
That made me laugh too 😆
I had to run the video back to be sure I heard Van correctly! Before Idid, though, I laughed like hell! 🤣
Nice job on this old song, Van. The last few weeks you have been hitting a lot of them over the (outfield) fence. Thank you.
Didn't make me laugh.
My favorite song by him. It came out in 1969 during Vietnam, and the line: "it wasn't me that started that ol crazy Asian war, but I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore" came through loud and clear.
Small correction. According to Mel Tillis, he was referring to the Korean War when he wrote this, not Vietnam.
That's what I thought too.
Yes, and he was referring to the sad but true experience of a friend.
The articles I've read was that it was about a couple Tillis knew from WWII, & "Asian War" was apparently used just because it lyrically fit. From an interview in American Songwriter; Tillis, the writer, is quoted as saying the man was badly wounded in WWII. Ruby, “his war bride from England”, was 1 of the nurses who “helped to bring him around to somewhat of a life.” They wed & moved to Palm Beach, FL, where Tillis met them. “He’d get drunk & accuse Ruby of everything under the sun.” The couple later divorced. [edited to add interview details].
Didn't know that, good info. Always thought it was the Vietnam war but if it was written in '66 it could mean the Koran War. Just checked Wikipedia (I know, but had to look somewhere) and they wrote that Tillis has said it was about WWII. Obviously there's the Pacific Theater but we don't refer to it as that "Asian war".
So I looked a little further. The magazine American Songwriter wrote an article on this song. They quote Tillis saying the song is actually about a soldier who came home from the war in 1947 and brought with him his bride from England. So Ruby, in real life, was a war bride from the UK.
he didn't wrote this song, Mel Tillis wrote the song based on korean war
You see, this was the what happened to many of the soldiers coming back. Suffering from PTSD and with horrific injuries to their bodies, They were looked on as baby killers and had eggs and stuff thrown on them as they arrived home. Their friends were dead and they had survivors guilt and their women didn't want them anymore either.
"Maybe she's going to the gym." LMFAO Holy cow, that made me laugh so hard. 😂
Same
Mel Tillis was a country musician you should listen to some of his music. Mel stuttered till he passed away but could sing beautifully.
Lucille and Reuben James is a must!
YES~!
lol man you really don't want his song to mean what it means !! bless you
I was born in '70 and my parents were KRogers fans so I heard this song many times. But I was too young to realize the full meaning and implications of the lyrics. Wow... it's heavy.
it's a bit of a murder ballad sort of. Lots of singers have done murder ballads, even Olivia Newton-John who sang about stabbing a man to death who spurned her in her hit song the Banks of the Ohio
"I held a knife against his breast
As into my arms he pressed
He cried "my love, don't you murder me
I'm not prepared for eternity"
I cried, "My God, what have I done?"
I've killed the only man I love
He would not take me for his bride"
Sadly, very relevant song to a lot of Veterans!
That's one F'd up situation. Correct he shouldn't kill her but at the same time she's constantly killing what little he has left. His love, dignity and hope to be love for the short amount of time he has left...
This came out when he was part of First Edition.
Most people thus song was about Vietnam but was actually written about Korea by Mel Tellis. Due to when Kenny released the song which is by far the best known as far as I know was during Vietnam. Actually fits both but just throwing it out their
"Yeah she's cheatin".
You worked that one out pretty quick. Lol. 👍
The 70s was a different time and a different way off thinking. This made perfect sense back then.
Kenny be telling some stories huh ??? Another good story I know you will enjoy .. is KENNY ROGERS - RUEBEN JAMES . Good song
Lucille another great song by Kenny Rogers. The storyline in the song is brilliant
One thing to keep in mind when listening to songs about veterans from the Viet Nam war is they had no choice. You were drafted if you were poor because college kids were exempt, and if your luck ran out you came home in a box, or crippled. He'd probably just as easily kill the government that sent him over there, but Ruby is all there is.
Before Kenny Rogers had a great solo career he was the lead singer for a band called "The First Edition" and that's where this song originally came from. If you want to see a Very Young Kenny Rogers singing "Ruby" with "The First Edition" I have included the link for the video that's here on You Tube ruclips.net/video/C1e9p6J89rQ/видео.html
I always wondered about that last line, "For God's sake, turn around." I read in Wiki that Mel Tillis changed the original ending, which used to be much different. It ended in a murder-suicide.
Well now you have to hear Lucille.
I was born in ‘62. I remember many guys in our neighborhood coming back. Many older brothers of my friends. Lots of tension in those households. Bad times
Kenny Rogers - Sweet music man
He is just saying that is how he feels yes she was and he does not care he is dying .
One of my favorite Kenny Rogers songs. I really like the instrumentation and simplicity. Two more songs you can check out are 'Blaze of Glory' and 'Ruben James.'
Heard that song a hundred times when I was a kid, and never paid attention to the lyrics.
My favorite Kenny song . I was 9 when it came out . Written by Mel Tillis
I was 9 also and had the 45 vinyl, lol. I started young. I started buying 45 singles when I was 7 years old...for real. Every week my mom let me pick one out. I started very young. I was in a Beatle's band when I was 5 😊
@@harper_anne2089 that’s cool . Ya , I started buying 45’s early too , probably 9? Fire and Rain I think was my first and that’s 1970, so ya was nine . We are lucky to come up then , with that amazing music
@@ericskivers6643 Agreed! Those songs take me back to a time where life was simple, and everyone loved each other ❤
He did this song in his solo career but this sounds like when he was with the First Edition
This song was on his first album, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, the hit song on that ablum was (Just Droppied In to see) "What Contition my Condition was In".
Howdy from Texas and our fellow Texan. Kenny was a legend.
Mell Tillis was a good writer ,singer and actor.
Van, Kenny was a rocker in the 60’s. You would love:
What Condition My Condition Was In
Many soldiers came back from Vietnam without their arms or legs etc. When they got back home to their wives and girlfriends, life was changed forever. Most wives stayed with their now mangled and disabled husbands, but some either left, or simply cheated on their wheelchair bound husbands. This song is about one of those ladies (Ruby) that would leave her paralyzed husband alone at home every weekend, so she could out to the Bars and find other young men, to fulfill her womanly needs, that her husband at home, could no longer perform. Very sad, but true stories like this happened to many Vietnam Vets in the 1960s.
Great song.
Mel Tillis was a HUGE country star. His daughter, Pam Tillis still plays country music
Actually, even though it seems that this song is about a Vietnam vet, Mel Tillis said it was based on a WW2 vet.
Remember when he rocked? I JUST DROPPED IN TO SEE WHAT CONDITION MY CONDITION WAS IN.
I understand that you live in the present but it was a different world 10 years before you were born. Don't judge him too harshly.
Rueben James, The Gambler, Lucile etc. Childhood memories 😊
🤘❤🇨🇦
When you are married, you really know what your mate is doing.
With his former group members The First Edition.
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition/Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In
Your face was priceless when he said he would put her in the ground lol 😂 you’re right it changed quickly
This song brings me back to riding in my Grandpops old pickup. He loved Kenny Rogers boy... I knew all the words and sang it along with him. I didn't know the real meaning of the song... was just a little guy. Brings a tear to my eye everytime I hear it.. remembering him and what the song represents.
Thanks for this one man.
👍🏾🇺🇸
Mel Tillis that's a rabbit hole you'll enjoy going down. He was a stutterer in the movie Cannonball Run and the used car salesman
His daughter Pam Tillis is a singer as well.
Some women want to be took care of
Not take care of someone.
Check out a Kenny Rogers song
It was the theme song to the movies SixPack. A cute southern 80's racecar movie. With Linda Grey.
Mel Tillis is also a legend in Country Music. Great singer/songwriter. Mel stutters when he talks, but doesn't when he sings. Another song that's a lot like this one is, "Don't take your guns to town son" written & sung by Johnny Cash.
Said very eloquently and very sane! "Because you don't have the life you should have, your ready to take hers" "So ya, that's not cool either".
Kenny is great but Im betting you haven't heard Red Sovine, check out Teddy bear or Phantom 409.
@@christopherpage9376 Another good song on that line is “Riding With Private Malone" by David Ball
I’ve been wanting someone to react to this song for a LONG time! My favorite Kenny Rogers song, ever since it first came out.
Kenny's great. R.I.P
If you want to hear some Mel Tillis, check out “I’ve got the hoss if you’ve got a saddle” 🤣
This song could always make me cry. So many of our friends or boyfriends or brothers came back from Nam changed....if not physically, then mentally. I had 2 friends return so changed they couldn't bear to live. Not all lives were lost before they made it home. An ugly. Unnecessary, hoax of a war.
This was written about the Korean War and this version sounds like when he was with the First Edition before he went solo
I wore this album slam out as a kid!! Reuben James, Just Dropped in, and this one...so good!!
I really liked this song back in the day. You are the only one I've seen react to it. Thank you
One hundred times before
Really great reaction! This was always such a sad song. There were a lot of people going through this type of scenario because of the Vietnam war (as there are with any war). But it wasn't really openly discussed, just kind of whispered about. I enjoyed your reaction and I look forward to seeing more.
That last line always brings me to tears.... For God's sakes turn around...
This was the very first song I ever heard Kenny sing and honest I have been a fan every since that day.
I think the line about a gun was an overstatement and tied to the killer the war made of him.
Mel Tillis was a great singer and songwriter, funny guy, and he has a daughter named Pam Tillis who is a great performer in her own right!
Check out mel tillis stand up btw Mel tillis would stutter when he spoke but sang clearly
When my husband was dying of cancer, I could never have imagined leaving him, or cheating on him...I took care of him till his last breath, he loved me, but I could see how a man could be filled with anger after a war took everything from him...He's desperate, my husband was a Vietnam vet, 9 years older than me, I could never have cheated! I still love him through all eternity...
My condolences on the loss of your husband.
I love that one of my favorite singers is topping lists for new generations. He sings a beautiful Christmas song call Mary Did You Know that's well worth a listen too. Thanks for the memories.
TRUST ME ON THIS CLASSIC MY MUSIC LOVIN BROTHER,, THE BLACKBYRDS "WALKING IN RHYTHM"..A TRUE SMOOTH SOUL GROOVE.
Did you know Coward of the County was made into a movie starring Kenny Roger's
Mel Tillis was a wonderful singer/songwriter has many great country songs and was a popular guy to appear in a talk shows as he had a very pronounce stutter. He didn't stutter when he sang though. One of my favorite songs of his is "Coke Cola Cowboy". Mel is the father of Pam Tillis a great country singer in her own right with hits such as "Maybe it Was Memphis". "Cleopatra Queen of Denial" and many others.
Live this song because it reminds me of my Dad mat he RIP. He used to cut up & make up some if the funniest lyrics of his own. We used to together back when I was a young girl. Man those were some if the best days I'll never forget. But I adore Kenny Rogers & one if my all time favs.songs that always sent chills was Lady written by another artist I listened to a whole lot of when he was with the Commodors & as a single artist the great Lionel Richie. His voice also touched my soul as well. Both were top notch in my opinion. True greats in my youth & introduction to the awesome art of🎵 🎶 music. Blessed to have experienced in my life thus far so many of the best artist ever. Legendary to me. And so many memories invested in their songs. Facts.🧡Thank you Van & hopes for you. & yours in having an AWESOME weekend 🤜🏼💯🤛🏼
Loved this song as a kid. Didn't realize what it was actually saying til I got older. 😮
I’ve heard this so many times in my life, mostly when I was in my teens. I always enjoyed the music, but never paid much attention to the words, just a couple of lines here and there. I had no idea what this was about until now. The part about wanting to kill her, I always took to mean that he was really frustrated and angry with her, but he would never actually do it.
I’m 58 now, and I definitely have a new appreciation for this song.
Always loved this.
Ok, if you like Kenny Roger's story songs, I will recommend Lucille
LOL Don't confuse Van. The song's title is "Lucille", not "You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me". Just sayin...it'll be easier for him to find it if he has the right title.😉
Been waiting for someone to react to this! TY!
🤣🤣 LMAO!! Well that escalated quickly.
Another awesome Kenny Rogers song and another awesome reaction. My heart bleeds for the Vietnam Vets, they were treated horribly, people spat on them and called them baby killers. They didn't deserve that, so I'd like to say to all the Vietnam Vets, welcome home brother, thank you for your service.
5:30 - You're being naive dude. Ruby doesn't just want to go dancing. She's taking her LOVE to town. That means she wants the ol' pickle tickle. Stop making excuses for Ruby. I mean it's not like the guy lost his tongue in the war if you catch my drift. This man fought for his country and this is the treatment he gets?
You'd LOVE his "Reuben James" ! Trust me.
Glad you posted this ❤
Mel Tillis was not only a great songwriter, but a great singer as well. The ironic thing was that he spoke with a pronounced stutter that went away when he sang, so he would sing what he wanted to say to people.
That is what he is saying.
What blows my mind is the fact that no one analyses the why at the end, he says: for Gods sake turn around!!!😲😬🙄🥴🤷
As a Vietnam Veteran, I fully understand. For many of us during Vietnam, we had three options, accept being drafted, go to jail or go to Canada. 58,220 died during that war. 61% who died were under 21. 11,465 were younger than 20 years old, including 5 who were 16 years old. 75,000 severely disabled. The average age of those who died was 23. I makes me angry that age limits for alcohol, tobacco, good insurance rate, good mortgage rates are for those 21 and over. Yes, there is has been no draft since 1975, but young men still have to register with Selective Service at 18. So, if the government believes that an 18 year old is mature enough to collect bullet with his body for the freedom of this country, then he is damn sure mature enough to decide and be able to buy anything that an adult of any older age is able to buy including tobacco and alcohol. Insurance companies and mortgage companies should be fined for age discrimination.
Old school! I heard this as a kid driving with my Momma. Jealousy can be a dangerous thing, she told me. Another example is Tom Jones singing Delilah! 😹 For another chapter in Guys behaving badly!!!
Lol Van, you crack me up.
I needed a laugh. Thanks! 😂
Yes, that phrase is dark. The entire song is dark. He was drafted to Nam and while there he got seriously wounded and now he is paralyzed and terminally ill. Because he's paralyzed he can no longer have sex... it just doesn't work because of the nerves being cut off from the brain. So now she's headed out to go get herself some and he's begging her not to go and just hold on until after he's gone because he still loves her and needs her support/companionship. The fact that she leaves anyway, despite his desperate begging makes him so angry and feel betrayed that he feels that he would put her in the ground... if only he could reach his gun
Ruben James is my favorite Kenny Rogers song.. wish someone did a react with that one
Love this song! Remember when it first hit the radio, it was great ❤
This song brought back memories, thank you!
another Kenny song " Just Dropped in to see what condition my condintion was in "
Touching
It is a sad song..I would think that this song has more truth than poetry..
TILL DEATH DO US PART
I love Kenny Rodgers song "Scarlett Fever" I've never seen anyone react to it - I think you would enjoy it.
This is the first time I have Kenny’s version. I have Waylon’s version and prefer it but this good as well.
You nailed the story behind this song after the first verse.