{"id":14038,"date":"2012-12-10T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T00:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14038"},"modified":"2019-12-02T09:48:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:48:50","slug":"somewhere-kansas-watchlisten-to-kacey-musgraves-merry-go-round-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-12\/somewhere-kansas-watchlisten-to-kacey-musgraves-merry-go-round-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere, Kansas&#8211;Watch\/Listen to Kacey Musgraves&#8217; &#8220;Merry Go &#8216;Round&#8221; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having hailed originally from hail-ridden Kansas, our ears are always open for songs evocative of small-town Midwest life.\u00a0 Texan newcomer-with-a-bullet <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaceymusgraves.com\/splash\/\">Kacey Musgraves<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>nailed that life this year with her sad-and-sage song <em><strong>Merry Go &#8216;Round<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Musgraves has confessed her admiration for the great <strong>John Prine<\/strong>, and Prine&#8217;s positive influence on her lyrics is immediately apparent on <em><strong>Merry Go &#8220;Round<\/strong><\/em> (&#8220;Cause Mama&#8217;s hooked on Mary Kay, Brother&#8217;s hooked on Mary Jane, and Daddy&#8217;s hooked on Mary two doors down&#8221;).\u00a0\u00a0 Check out the fresh-faced Musgraves in the video for her phenomenally well-crafted song.\u00a0 The last line always hurts ya in the heart(land).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go &#039;Round (Official Music Video)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GZfj2Ir3GgQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Merry Go &#8216;Round<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you ain&#8217;t got two kids by 21,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re probably gonna die alone<br \/>\nAt least that&#8217;s what tradition told you<\/p>\n<p>And it don&#8217;t matter if you don&#8217;t believe,<br \/>\nCome Sunday morning you best be there<br \/>\nIn the front row, like you&#8217;re s&#8217;posed to<\/p>\n<p>Same hurt in every heart<br \/>\nSame trailer, different park<\/p>\n<p>Mama&#8217;s hooked on Mary Kay<br \/>\nBrother&#8217;s hooked on Mary Jane<br \/>\nAnd Daddy&#8217;s hooked on Mary two doors down<\/p>\n<p>Mary Mary quite contrary,<br \/>\nWe get bored so we get married<br \/>\nAnd just like dust we settle in this town<br \/>\nOn this broken merry go &#8217;round and &#8217;round and &#8217;round we go,<br \/>\nWhere it stops nobody knows,<br \/>\nAnd it ain&#8217;t slowin&#8217; down, this merry go &#8217;round<\/p>\n<p>We think the first time&#8217;s good enough,<br \/>\nSo we hold on to high school love,<br \/>\nSay we won&#8217;t end up like our parents<\/p>\n<p>Tiny little boxes in a row,<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t want you want it&#8217;s what you know,<br \/>\nJust happy in the shoes you&#8217;re wearin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Same checks we&#8217;re always cashin&#8217;,<br \/>\nTo buy a little more distraction<\/p>\n<p>Cause Mama&#8217;s hooked on Mary Kay<br \/>\nBrother&#8217;s hooked on Mary Jane<br \/>\nDaddy&#8217;s hooked on Mary two doors down<\/p>\n<p>Mary Mary quite contrary,<br \/>\nWe get bored so we get married<br \/>\nAnd just like dust we settle in this town<br \/>\nOn this broken merry go &#8217;round and &#8217;round and &#8217;round we go,<br \/>\nWhere we stop nobody knows<br \/>\nAnd it ain&#8217;t slowin&#8217; down, this merry go &#8217;round<\/p>\n<p>Mary Mary quite contrary,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re so bored until we&#8217;re buried<br \/>\nAnd just like dust we settle in this town<br \/>\nOn this broken merry go &#8217;round,<br \/>\nMerry go &#8217;round<\/p>\n<p>Jack and Jill went up the hill,<br \/>\nJack burned out on booze and pills,<br \/>\nAnd Mary had a little lamb,<br \/>\nMary just don&#8217;t give a damn no more&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having hailed originally from hail-ridden Kansas, our ears are always open for songs evocative of small-town Midwest life.\u00a0 Texan newcomer-with-a-bullet Kacey Musgraves\u00a0nailed that life this year with her sad-and-sage song Merry Go &#8216;Round.\u00a0 Musgraves has confessed her admiration for the great John Prine, and Prine&#8217;s positive influence on her lyrics is immediately apparent on Merry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28832,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions\/28832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}