John Prine wrote this song to prove once and for all that time travel into the past is impossible. If time travel were ever to become possible, the inventor, after having killed Hitler and won several lotteries, would go back to the late seventies and advise John Prine not to put lines about being raped by minorities into his songs because of the imminent advancement of cultural sensitivity in America. By that I mean I was only commenting on the fact that Prine wrote a lyric that is the opposite of timeless because America is a racially charged place
@MartinH4
I read elsewhere a quote from John. The gist was that he visited a town where there was a rape. Someone apparently asked if the rapist was black or white. John was confused as to why someone needed to ask that as a rapist is a rapist no matter what. Apparently he was whiteness to a car accident and so the song was born. A light hearted play on how lucky that no one got hurt. Accusations of racism don’t have to be thrown at every comment.
@MartinH4
I read elsewhere a quote from John. The gist was that he visited a town where there was a rape. Someone apparently asked if the rapist was black or white. John was confused as to why someone needed to ask that as a rapist is a rapist no matter what. Apparently he was whiteness to a car accident and so the song was born. A light hearted play on how lucky that no one got hurt. Accusations of racism don’t have to be thrown at every comment.
John Prine wrote this song to prove once and for all that time travel into the past is impossible. If time travel were ever to become possible, the inventor, after having killed Hitler and won several lotteries, would go back to the late seventies and advise John Prine not to put lines about being raped by minorities into his songs because of the imminent advancement of cultural sensitivity in America. By that I mean I was only commenting on the fact that Prine wrote a lyric that is the opposite of timeless because America is a racially charged place
@MartinH4 I read elsewhere a quote from John. The gist was that he visited a town where there was a rape. Someone apparently asked if the rapist was black or white. John was confused as to why someone needed to ask that as a rapist is a rapist no matter what. Apparently he was whiteness to a car accident and so the song was born. A light hearted play on how lucky that no one got hurt. Accusations of racism don’t have to be thrown at every comment.
@MartinH4 I read elsewhere a quote from John. The gist was that he visited a town where there was a rape. Someone apparently asked if the rapist was black or white. John was confused as to why someone needed to ask that as a rapist is a rapist no matter what. Apparently he was whiteness to a car accident and so the song was born. A light hearted play on how lucky that no one got hurt. Accusations of racism don’t have to be thrown at every comment.
@MartinH4 Imagine not getting the irony of Prine's lyrics.
@MartinH4 Imagine not getting the irony of Prine's lyrics.