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Music City euphemisms for death:

♦ Pushing up kudzu

♦ Bought the farm only to have it condemned for the 840 loop, cheap subdivision condos, and mall development

♦ Touring with the Gatlins

♦ Riding the electric barcolounger

♦ Keyed a Camaro at Denim ’n’ Diamonds

♦ Roadie for Jesus

♦ Failed to chart

♦ All “Freak”ed up

♦ In special session

♦ The toast of Branson

♦ Third string for the Kats

♦ Ate and drank but wasn’t wary

♦ Set up shop at Fountain Square

♦ Crushed by his own belt buckle

♦ Retiring on Shoney’s dividends

♦ Inoculated against oxygen

♦ Vaccinated against vitality

♦ Thanks to the state, had all his shots

♦ Masterminded the Chris Gaines album

♦ Piloting the Screamin’ Delta Demon

♦ Runnin’ third behind John Jay

♦ Wearing a gold “V” in the SEC

♦ Relocated to Twitty City

♦ Shopping at H. G. Hill’s

♦ Prime Time dead

♦ Exhumation ready

♦ Especially syphilitic

♦ KDF-ed over

♦ Grandpa Jonesin’

♦ In exceptionally light rotation

♦ Bit the big funnel cake

♦ Covered by TennCare

♦ Dixie stiff

— by Jonathan Harwell Jr.

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