Week # 76 and we're finally rolling around to Panties in Your Purse...

As good an opening verse as any that the Truckers have put to vinyl.



Saw you standing in the hallway, red plastic cup, and one of those big long cigarettes
You asked me if I could play you some Dylan
I said "Dylan who?" you told me to kiss your ass
I apologized, but you could tell I didn't mean it by the way I rolled my eyes
and when you said it wasn't me it was you
somehow I knew you were gonna tell me why

Stuff was flying out of the window
falling and breaking on the pavement underneath
He's screaming at you, red faced and fuming
He'd come home early, parked his car way up the street
You had your stockings in your hand, panties in your purse
it was ten a.m. and all the neighbors heard
him calling you a whore and a tramp
you just stood there while your heels sank into the warm wet ground

He got a lawyer, you got a bottle
He got the children and you moved in with your mama
She fixes breakfast and lets you use her car
she don't care how late you call to tell her where you are
Ya'll still fight and she still nags you some
but somehow it's different now than when you were young
It's your own damn fault you been threw hell
for one reason or another, somehow she kinda blames herself

I had no idea that Panties in Her Purse was this weeks track and yet it's been playing in my head for two days. This song to me expresses Cooley's POV of life more than any other. Classic and always puts a smile on my face.

We need more country songs about the "walk of shame"

Just wanted to post this, as I was the guy in the back that you can here shout out "Panties in Your Purse".... and this song is awesome.

I was very close to picking this song a couple weeks ago. Always has been a favorite of mine.

I wish he'd revisit the Panties -> Weakest Man double shot, that's all kindsa sweet!

This one is definitely on my wish list for Winston-Salem...

It was on my wish list as well this last week but didn't get to hear it.

Panties has always been one of my favorites, it is the perfect Cooley for me.

"Dylan Who" = classic cooley sarcasm.

My favorite Cooley song. If I ever learn guitar, it's on my top 5 list of songs to learn. Here's another wish for a Winston-Salem sighting. Haven't seen it in a couple of years.

A song like no other. Songs like this & "Bob" really show Tom T.'s influence on the Cool man

Smitty wrote:A song like no other. Songs like this & "Bob" really show Tom T.'s influence on the Cool man

Agreed. This is a remarkable song. It feels like it's much longer in the sense that nothing is left out, we can picture these scenes, these moments, the characters perfectly. I mean somebody like Harry Chapin or Billy Joel would take another 6 verses to try to tell this exact same story. And while it may be in plain fuckin' English the lyrics soar, not because it's arty "poetry" full of grand and obscure metaphors and biblical allusions, but because it's direct prose w/out being prosaic. Took me a long time to tumble to this song because it's on one of my least favorite DBT albums, but when i did it hit me like a ton of bricks and i've still got the bruises.

Zip City wrote:We need more country songs about the "walk of shame"

I remember driving a cab on the day shift on Saturday and Sunday. I would start my shift at 6:00 AM. Often I would have more than one lady during the first few hours of my shift who was doing what I refered to as the cab ride of shame. It always made me think about PIYP. What a great song.

sactochris wrote:

Zip City wrote:We need more country songs about the "walk of shame"

I remember driving a cab on the day shift on Saturday and Sunday. I would start my shift at 6:00 AM. Often I would have more than one lady during the first few hours of my shift who was doing what I refered to as the cab ride of shame. It always made me think about PIYP. What a great song.

How were the tips, if u know what i mean <wink wink>?

roland wrote:My favorite Cooley song. If I ever learn guitar, it's on my top 5 list of songs to learn. Here's another wish for a Winston-Salem sighting. Haven't seen it in a couple of years.

I am by no means a good guitar player, but this one is fairly easy. I was picking it one day when my son walked by and said "hey, Panties in Your Purse"! I consider that one of the greatest accomplishments in my life...

Flea wrote:I wish he'd revisit the Panties -> Weakest Man double shot, that's all kindsa sweet!

Yes!
(though I think you've got the double shot backwards)

inman_trucker wrote:

roland wrote:My favorite Cooley song. If I ever learn guitar, it's on my top 5 list of songs to learn. Here's another wish for a Winston-Salem sighting. Haven't seen it in a couple of years.

I am by no means a good guitar player, but this one is fairly easy. I was picking it one day when my son walked by and said "hey, Panties in Your Purse"! I consider that one of the greatest accomplishments in my life...

A moment to treasure for sure

Nice sig, Clams

beantownbubba wrote:

sactochris wrote:

Zip City wrote:We need more country songs about the "walk of shame"

I remember driving a cab on the day shift on Saturday and Sunday. I would start my shift at 6:00 AM. Often I would have more than one lady during the first few hours of my shift who was doing what I refered to as the cab ride of shame. It always made me think about PIYP. What a great song.

How were the tips, if u know what i mean <wink wink>?

" if I told you about all that went down it would burn off both of your ears"

hendooman wrote:It was on my wish list as well this last week but didn't get to hear it.

Panties has always been one of my favorites, it is the perfect Cooley for me.

I thought they played this in Omaha last spring? Must'a been one of the Denver shows I hit.

I'm lucky enough to have seen this twice, and it would be my vote for the most underrated Cooley song. Absolutely love this song.

sactochris wrote:

beantownbubba wrote:

sactochris wrote:
I remember driving a cab on the day shift on Saturday and Sunday. I would start my shift at 6:00 AM. Often I would have more than one lady during the first few hours of my shift who was doing what I refered to as the cab ride of shame. It always made me think about PIYP. What a great song.

How were the tips, if u know what i mean <wink wink>?

" if I told you about all that went down it would burn off both of your ears"

Aw, man, you CANNOT throw that out there and then leave me (us?) hanging like that!!

beantownbubba wrote:
How were the tips, if u know what i mean <wink wink>?

" if I told you about all that went down it would burn off both of your ears"[/quote]

Aw, man, you CANNOT throw that out there and then leave me (us?) hanging like that!![/quote]


Haven't you ever seen the show taxi cab confessions? It's all true man. Every word of it is true. Maybe I should start a thread about all my weird cab stories.

Clams wrote:

Flea wrote:I wish he'd revisit the Panties -> Weakest Man double shot, that's all kindsa sweet!

Yes!
(though I think you've got the double shot backwards)

I like eating dessert first.

As one of the two pillars of Gangstabilly, Panties always makes me wonder why Patterson refers to GB as their weakest album or why when we do album rankings here GB winds up near the bottom. There's not much better than the uninterrupted run of Bubba-Late for Church-Panties-Why Henry Drinks-18 Wheels-SMQ-Buttholeville-Sandwiches for the Road. I know we're judging it against the rest of their face-melting catalogue, but that IMHO can hang with anything.

And great point, BTB, about other songwriters not being able to sum things up so eloquently. Spencer Hall, who writes everydayshouldbesaturday.com, had me laughing when he said if Billy Joel wrote a song about killing a homeless man with a hammer he'd call the song, "Killing a Homeless Man (With a Hammer)." It's just like Cooley said about shitty country-pop writing when talking to that epic fail interviewer, "there has to be a better way of saying it."

Sterling Big Mouth wrote:As one of the two pillars of Gangstabilly, Panties always makes me wonder why Patterson refers to GB as their weakest album or why when we do album rankings here GB winds up near the bottom. There's not much better than the uninterrupted run of Bubba-Late for Church-Panties-Why Henry Drinks-18 Wheels-SMQ-Buttholeville-Sandwiches for the Road. I know we're judging it against the rest of their face-melting catalogue, but that IMHO can hang with anything.

I think Patterson usually refers to the less than ideal conditions that it and Pizza Deliverance were recorded under. I may be in the minority but I still consider it my favorite Truckers record.

amazing song classic cooley!!

probly my favorite cooley song ever. the change before the "..stockings in your hands, panties in your purse..." line gives me an extra special feeling

During tonight's Homecoming stream I realized (for the first time) that the chord sequence to this song is identical to Zip City

Zip City wrote:During tonight's Homecoming stream I realized (for the first time) that the chord sequence to this song is identical to Zip City

Yeah.... No.

Iowan wrote:

Zip City wrote:During tonight's Homecoming stream I realized (for the first time) that the chord sequence to this song is identical to Zip City

Yeah.... No.

Not the same melody (at all), but I'm pretty sure they're both Em/G/D/A....maybe PIYP is in a different key.

EDIT: After a bit of googling, looks like I'm a bit off. Oh well, it sure sounded like it the other night. Stupid beer....