Tom T. Hall and some silliness

My mom was a huge country music fan, so I got a steady dose of it growing up. The twang in the voice of many country singers still keeps me from appreciating a lot of the music, but there were a few artists for whom I really shared her appreciation. One of then was Country Music Hall of Fame singer and songwriter Tom T. Hall, whose nickname was The Storyteller. While I was in high school he released a song that was subtitled The Cowboy and the Poet. Everybody knows it by its actual title, though, which was a reference to the first of the four things that really matter in life. According to the cowboy, they are:

Faster horses, younger women, older whisky, more money

Well, my brain is a strange thing, and every now and then, like last night before bedtime, it once again (as it is prone to do) started intentionally mixing them up in a variety of ways. So you have:

Faster women, younger whisky, older money, more horses

three of the four of which have their proponents, the last one in the additional sense of the amount of muscle under the hood of your car, or:

Faster whisky,  younger money,  older horses, more women

Well, there is something about that rush of new wealth, I guess, and if you're going to get hammered I suppose having the whisky work faster might be a good thing:

Faster money, younger horses, older women, more whisky

You get the idea.

A mind is a terrible thing. (raises glass:) To waste!