Toby Keith - I Wish I Didn't Know Now

Toby Keith is one of the biggest names in Country Music, with ten Platinum albums and two that "only" went Gold. He's perhaps best known for the controversy around his post-9/11 song, Courtesy Of The Red, White, and Blue, which was banned from ABC's Fourth of July show by Peter Jennings. He initially only sang the song at concerts that he did for the troops, until the Commandant of the Marine Corps told him it was "his duty as an American citizen" to record the song.

Oh, yeah, the Dixie Chicks hate him.

But that's not the point of today's Saturday Redneck. We've seen a lot of "buyer's remorse" recently from conservatives who had convinced themselves that Obama was a moderate. Country Music - naturally - has a song about that. Well, about a spouse that you thought was something other than he/she really is.

David Brooks and Jim Cramer, this Saturday Redneck's for you.


I Wish I Didn't Know Now (songwriter: Toby Keith)

I've never ask you where you're goin'
I've never ask you where you've been
I've never called and checked your story
You stayed out with all your friends
I've never tried to catch you lyin'
I didn't want to know the truth
I'd rather go on lovin' blind girl
Than go on lovin' without you

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then
I wish I could start this whole thing over again
I'm not sayin' it's you could never be true
I just don't wanna know how it ends
You'd still have my heart in the palm of your hands
I'd still look like a fool in front of your friends
Yeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then

I've always said what I don't know
Couldn't hurt as bad as leavin' you
Turns out I knew what I was thinkin'
It ain't an easy thing to do
Well I guess I should be goin'
I sure found out too much to stay
Please don't say your sorry
I might wait another day

I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then
I wish I could start this whole thing over again
I'm not sayin' it's you could never be true
I just don't wanna know how it ends
You'd still have my heart in the palm of your hands
I'd still look like a fool in front of your friends
Yeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then

You'd still have my heart in the palm of your hand
I'd still look like a fool in front of your friends
Yeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then
Yeah I wish somehow I didn't know now what I didn't know then