Cledus T. Judd - Lets Shoot Dove

Earlier in the week, I had the chance to shoot a sweet, sweet Browning Auto-5 shotgun. Also, tomorrow is the 3rd Annual New England Blogshoot, so a song with shotguns was obligatory. And when you absolutely, positively need to sing about shotguns, you're talking Cledus T. Judd.

Judd (real name: Barry Poole) has been called the "Weird Al" of country music, for his stock-in-trade parody songs like I Love NASCAR (parody of Toby Keith's I Love This Bar) and My Cellmate Thinks I'm Sexy (parody of Kenny Chesney's She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy, perhaps the stupidest country song of all tome).

Country Music sometimes goes over the top with swelling orchestra schmaltz, and when it does, it makes itself a big ol' target for mockery. Cledus is usually there, loading the shells into the shotgun, like this parody of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill (Let's Make Love): Let's Shoot Dove.



Let's Shoot Dove (Songwriters: Cledus T. Judd, Chris Clark)

Buddy I'm sick of shootin at clay
(PULL)
Dreaming of opening day
How bout you

Yeah me too

The only thing I want to do
Is hunt with you
Kill a bird or two
Go get your gun

Let's shoot dove
All day long
Until all our shells are gone
Shoot five times
Then reload
Run like heck if the game warden shows
Yeah when the sun comes up
Let's shoot dove

You know Faith gets mad at me
When she thinks I'd rather be
In a field with you
Sipping brews

Shootin anything that moves

I think my sight's a little off to the right

You can't hit nothing

Let's shoot dove
All day long
Until our eardums are blown
By tonight
One things for sure
Boy our shoulders will be sore
I just can't get enough
Let's shoot dove

(slight artillery prictice)

Let's shoot dove
All day long
Until all our shells are gone
Point your gun
Towards the sky
I want to see them feathers fly
And when the sun comes up

I can't get enough

Let's shoot dove

Hey d'jou get one

Nah d'jou

I think I winged one

Pull!