Steve Goodman wrote the perfect country and western song for David Allen Coe. Coe said that a perfect country and western song had to have something about: Mama, trains, trucks, prison and getting drunk. What was Mamas fate in the perfect country and western song?
- She said farewell and left on the midnight train
- She got drunk the day I had to go to prison
- She left for the station in her pick-up truck
- She got hit by a damned old train
Answer
The correct answer is D) She got hit by a damned old train.
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