Masters of Song Fu – Update #7
Your task is to write a country ballad – using a backstory of your own creation – called “The Ballad of Rufus Amos Adams“.
The song is now written, having walked around all week with a list of the requirements in my pocket and no idea how to get them all together. The answers came once I had the story behind the ballad, and the various items then all slotted into place fairly well.
It’s the story of a Scottish lad with a country and western name and the trouble that follows because of it – it sits somewhere between ‘A Boy Named Sue’ and Billy Connolly’s version of ‘Tell Laura I Love Her’. It features ALL the subjects required for the ‘perfect’ country song as well as a little reference to ‘Stobby‘. I’ll post the lyrics when the recording is complete, probably tomorrow night.
Tags: Song Fu, Country, A Boy Named Sue, Tell Laura I Love Her, Stobby, Billy Connolly
