Bro-country.
It’s that style of country pop sung by dudes (bros), usually about women, beer, pickup trucks, guns, blue jeans, and dirt roads.
Have a quick listen.
It’s all well and good, but those who live in Connecticut are feeling left out.
That’s the state with the Puritan vibes, country clubs, fancy colleges, and superiority complex.
In other words, it’s not exactly bro-country material.
That is, until now.
The song is called “Backwoods Missouri,” written by my son and me and performed here by the younger and more mulleted of the two. The lyrics are included.
Verse 1
Mama said to go to boarding school
To make money, get an underground pool
I could drive an Audi SUV
Brag my whole life how I went Ivy
Get new digs in Fairfield County
Rake in some of that hedge fund bounty
Make my son go and play lacrosse
So he could peak in high school like a boss
Chorus
That’s when I went and bombed the SAT
My ass rejected from the Ivy League
It got so bad that the high-brow jury
Sent me to school in…backwoods Missouri
Backwoods Missouri
Verse 2
Mama said to join a country club
To make a few new rich-kid buds
Talk about them boats and Mercedes
Wear collared shirts and skin-tight khakis
Get a free ride to a place called Yale
Be prim and proper and act more pale
I said I’d go and try to learn to ski
Be like New England royalty
Chorus
That’s when I went and bombed the SAT
My ass rejected from the Ivy League
It got so bad that the high-brow jury
Sent me to school in…backwoods Missouri
Backwoods Missouri
Bridge
In Connecticut we had some fun
In every hundred days on maybe one
We test drove a few nice cars
I once went to a quaint little bar
Always tried to sound so important
Even if circumstances didn’t warrant
That’s how we rolled up in old C-T
Talkin’ ’bout cashflow and annuities
Chorus
That’s when I went and bombed the SAT
My ass rejected from the Ivy League
It got so bad that the high-brow jury
Sent me to school in…backwoods Missouri
Backwoods Missouri
Backwoods Missouri
Backwoods Missouri
Note: The older songwriter grew up in Connecticut and went to school in backwoods Missouri.
10 Responses
😂 hilarious
Hahaha. Thanks!
I am going to sue you for the custody of my grandkids!
Hahahaha
Traitor!!
The songwriters suspected you might not like this one. 🙂
Hey,hey. You are married into an Appalachian family, cause you were in backwoods of Missouri! No regrets, correct
Hahaha. No regrets at all—backwoods Missouri and Appalachia have been very kind to me!
brilliant! I knew the musician was a talented instrumentalist, but he can sing too!
Thanks! Yes, the instrumentalist is adding vocals to his repertoire.