My Good Old Car Comments

I wrote this song in the dirty eighties when the price of gas had doubled and the rents were going sky high. The price of food had gone up terribly and the government didn't know what to do about it so they got Judy Erola Minister of Foreign Affairs to fool the people by bringing the metric system from France to Canada and that way people couldn't read the the prices at the pump cause it went from gallons to litres and their grocery weights were now in metric and not by the pound.
And it worked (but they didn't fool me) the people of Canada who are a passive bunch took it on the chin and slept all the way through it and paid through the nose.
The Tommy Hunter Show was Canadian country music show and they weren't about to get me the opportunity to appear on it. I was pissed off.
This song started off when they had towed my little sports car from a restaurant parking lot. Especially when the parking lot was almost empty. You can hear the song at www.johnnycashsong.com
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