Thanks for the spoiler alert, Waylon Jennings
How dare you accuse The Balladeer of anything untoward! He's just telling us about two good ol' boys who never mean any harm.
My bigger issue is with an issue later on in the song...but first a little background.
Waylon Jennings is very well known for his performance singing the theme song to the classic TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard." It's a show about two cousins Bo and Luke Duke who live with their uncle Jesse and other cousin Daisy. They're on probation or something and live their lives trying to be upstanding members of the community. Standing in their way is what stands for the authority figures in their county, which consists of a corrupt rich guy ("Boss" J.D. Hogg) who wants to own and run everything and a remarkably incompetent sheriff (Roscoe P. Coltrane). Every episode consists of some scheme run by the rich guy and the sheriff to arrest the Dukes and take their farm. We then live in suspense about whether the Dukes are going to be able to avoid the sheriff and foil the scheme.
Here's the problem: Waylon Jennings tells us at the start of every episode that, as far as the Dukes are concerned, "someday the mountain might get 'em, but the law never will." So, we know right off the bat that the Dukes are going to get away scot-free, regardless of what plat or scheme has been concocted by Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane.
True story, I once had to yell at my radio because some guy called into the morning show talking about "Rosco Picotrain." He said it several times, and he was wrong. I had enough.
So anyway, every episode of The Dukes of Hazzard has been ruined right from the start by the theme song with nary a mention of "Spoiler Alert." Thanks, Waylon Jennings.
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