For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 26, 2023

so will he trade in the sports car for a pickup?

The Rolling Stones were in there, too.

Gotta love country music (the old kind like in this comic.) Great beat for dancing, too.

Young Country does it every time.

Sweet.

Awww love Patsy Cline! She was the best!

Love the songs!!!

But Borecki had ’er zeroed IN!!

Guess we’ll never know…

And you thought his wife was suffering because she is having a 45th birthday. I tell you middle aged men suffer 10 times worse! You just don’t know because we suffer in silence. (Silence, with one exception. When we are confiding with our favorite bartender at the bar!)

Elly, don’t complain. He is showing some affection for you ! ! ! I would love to have some one to show some affection to at at this time of my life. It would be great so ’don’t knock it’ you have someone ! ! !

I love country music…especially the old-timey, cryin’ cowboy stuff.

Great cartoon, Ms. Lynn.

Like Joni Mitchel said “You don’t know what you got til it’s gone” John loves what he has and does not want to lose her.

Some great songs there – one or two I’ll be humming today.

There’s a quirky New Zealand police show on Acorn TV called The Brokenwood Mysteries where the lead detective is a C-W fan. He also listens to compact cassettes because the ancient car he drives preceded CD players by twenty years.

A true Canadian would be listening to Leonard Cohen if he was after music-to-slit-your-wrists-by. But as LC was a truly excellent and profound poet and musician, and John was more in the mood for foot-tapping tear jerkers, guess that wouldn’t have worked.

I played a country western album backwards once. The guy’s wife came back, his dog came back, his truck started working again, he got his job back…

Country song that everyone loves

If the South would have won we’d have it made.

I’d probably run for president of the Southern states

The day Patsy Cline died

We would show our southern pride.

If the South would have won we’d have it made.

I would put the Supreme Court in Texas.

And we wouldn’t have no killers getting away scotfree.

If they were proven guilty then they would fry quickly.

Instead of writing books and smiling on TV.

We would all learn Creole cooking in Louisiana.

And I would put our nation’s capital in Montgomery, Alabama.

We would Florida on the right track because we’d take Miami back

And send all those pushers to the slammer.

Oh, if the South would have won, we’s have it made.

I’d probably run for President of the Southern States

The day Elvis died, we’d show our Southern pride

If the south would have won, we’d have it made

Play a little Dixieland boys, ah yes

I would have all the whiskey distilled in Tennessee.

And all the horses bred in those Kentucky hills.

The national treasury would be in Tupelo, Mississippi

And I would put Hank Williams’ picture on $50 bills.

I would have all the cars made in the Carolinas

And ban all the ones made in China

I would have every girl child sent to Georgia to learn to smile.

And talk with that Southern accent that drives men wild

I would have all the fiddles made in Virginia

Cause they sure can make ‘em sound so fine

I’m going up on Wolverton Mountain and see old Clifton Clowers

And have a sip of his good old Arkansas wine

Hey, if the South woulda won we’d a had it made

Might even be better off

Sir, I suggest you not listen to that radio station anymore!

Ah, those country songs – they can hit you right in the heart.

Is he worried he’s going to lose his truck, his dog, and his mobile home?

My dad also listened to country music, so I recognize the first two classics:

“Walking the Floor Over You” by Ernest Tubb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-0KHkf5V98

“Your Cheatin’ Heart” by Hank Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tiGG45ge9g

Country music in Canada? Well, we’ve got Ann Murry here.

Never met a Canadian who liked USA Talk Radio or C&W music and then they got PM Justin Trudeau.

I never met a Canadian who liked USA talk radio or C&W music and then they got PM Justin Trudeau.

Should have stuck with the parasites?

According to The Expanse TV series, Hank Williams will still be listened to several centuries from now.

Country and bluegrass is all I listen to. Willies Roadhouse and Bluegrass on Sirius.

Trust me those songs take a whole new meaning when you lose your Spouse. I always enjoyed all types of music and now most songs are just another trigger for me.

Glad to see this strip. I was getting sick of Elly’s whining about her age. Many of my compatriots did not live as long as she has. There were some who were killed in action before they ever got a chance to start a family. They gave their lives so that people like John and Elly could have the freedom to start a family and grow old.

Poignant since it turned out Lynn’s husband was the one with a cheatin’ heart.

He should have stayed with the Sonata in D.

Used to be Country songs would lament his woman leaving. Now, thanks to electric vehicles, I’m waiting for the first Country song where a guy’s TRUCK leaves him.

Not sure what music Elly likes. One thing is for sure; if Elly was born in 1979, then it was impossible for her to have been a hippie in the 1960s. These strips sure are inconsistent.

Reminds me of a scene in “Better of Dead” were this happens then just flings the radio out of the car.

He should have stuck with the intestinal parasites.

When you play a Heavy Metal record backward you get a Satanic message.

When you play a Country record backward you bet you wife back, your truck back, your dog back…

Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, etc. It’s all good. Better than good, actually!

gee, Elly, how’d you guess John was listening to it?

Did John get another new car?

wonder what gave him away?

Here’s a happy Country Music Alternative

Oh,The Yellow Rose Of Texas is the cutest thing on Earth

Her right eye looks at Dallas

And her left one at Fort Worth

Her ponytail’s a dandy,her hairdo is a prize

But it sure enough comes in handy,when she’s a-shooin’ flies

I was working in the garden when I discovered her

I reached for an old tomato….and Darling,there you were….