Obit: Clark Byers, See Rock City

Subject: Obit: Clark Byers, See Rock City
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Feb 04 - 10:20 AM

Not an important man in the large scheme of things, not music and likely needs to be moved to the bottom section.

Clark Byers was responsible for every single one of the SEE ROCK CITY barn paintings in the Southern US, a fascinating chapter in Americana, now gone the way of Burma Shave signs, three lane highways, exotic animal parks and the stop at Stuckeys.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/8006343.htm


barn picture

Subject: RE: Obit: Clark Byers, See Rock City
From: sed
Date: 22 Feb 04 - 10:40 AM

See Rock City;
Buy a Stuckey's Pecan Bar.
Drink CocaCola
next time you stop your car.
Buy my fresh watermellon
that I got at the A & P.
You can drive down the line
past a hundred miles of signs
and never see a tree.

Chorus by Bud (Irvin) Foote of Atlanta and Dauphin Island, AL
I think it's in the first Clearwater Songbook, circa. 1969.

Subject: RE: Obit: Clark Byers, See Rock City
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 04 - 07:17 PM

Yeah, another peice of Americana gone. You can't even paint a chewin' tobakka sign on a barn anymore, either. (great big sigh)

Subject: RE: Obit: Clark Byers, See Rock City
From: Mark Clark
Date: 23 Feb 04 - 12:31 AM

sed, I immediately thought of that song when I saw this thread. A dear friend (Stan Shapin) used to sing it and knew all the verses. I tried to find it on the Net but came up empty. Do you know the whole thing?

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Obit: Clark Byers, See Rock City
From: GUEST,Rebecca Lynn
Date: 12 Jul 12 - 01:22 PM

My dad loved Bud Foote and used to sing us this song when we were little. Here's another verse:

I got a girl named Ruby
SheÕs big and fat and wide
We went out the other night
And parked over to the side
When I finally got my hand up her dress
It made my face turn red
Cause on her tail
Was a sign in Braille
And this is what it said: