Inspired by a bumper sticker. The intro quip was by my dad, who used to work as a repo-man in Madera County. The song in the middle "Mother Fuckin Cowboy", was written spontaneously by my then room-mate, now dead friend, Tony Tapian, after getting off the phone with his dad.
"20 minutes North- Down highway 99", is a reference to the way people in Fresno talk, insisting on saying stuff like "up to L.A.", and "down to San Francisco". Also, in Fresno, people like to say "about a hundred", in response to many things. There are few thing that can't be answered "about a hundred". Be on the lookout.
lyrics
20 minutes North down Highway 99
is the place where they make the fabulous Gallo wine
it's Fresno's own backwards country cousin
MADERA! MADERA!
It's the one place people in Fresno
are glad that they're not from
Well you know we got a Big Ol cake a culture
They haven't even got a crumb
They only just got public schools there
So everybody's really dumb
But if you need heroin or hookers,
You go there to getcha some!
MADERA!
MADERA!
Now Madera was founded in 1929
As a place of banishment from Fresno
(MADERA! MADERA!
YOU'RE A LOT JUST LIKE AUSTRALIA!)
Keep all them Maderans
on the other side of the San Joaquin
It's the only thing that'll ever keep
the Fresno county clean
a those:
Inbred, Podunk, redneck rubes
And their cattle thievin ways
well the river might wash the scum off,
But the stink that's on em stays ,
Cause they're from
MADERA! MADERA!
If the name itself don't scare ya!
MADERA! MADERA!
Go there hippie I double dare ya!
MADERA! MADERA!
Them an fresno's quite a paira..
MADERA! MADERA!
Kick yer ass an cut yer hair
MA DOG, MA TRUCK, MADERA!
MADERA! MADERA!
If the name itself don't scare ya
MADERA! MADERA!
Cowboy hat and a pistol weara
MADERA! MADERA!
Kick yer ass and cut yer haira
MADERA! MADERA!
Men are men and sheep are scare-da
(INSERT "MOTHER FUCKIN COWBOY"
by my dead friend Tony Tapian, who was killed in Madera county)
"I kiss the girls, and I fill their mouth with spit"
and
MA DOG, MA TRUCK, MADERA!
Well their drunken sheriff he just got caught
Passed out in a Sacramento parking lot
The man that declares an annual war against pot
Blood alcohol twice the legal limit in a Madera county car
Charged with D.U.I. and reckless driving,
Made even worse the situation,
Got the Sacramento Stink-eye
with the department of transportation,
Now the Amtrak don't even stop there
cause the greyhound got threats in the mail....
Even my cousin Harley moved away
Last month, when he got out of jail
MA DOG, MA TRUCK, MADERA!
MA DOG, MA TRUCK, MADERA!
YEAH!
My god! MY GOD! My truck!!, MY TRUCK!! Ma god!!! MY GOD!!! Ma truck!!!! MA
TRUCK!!!! Ma god!!!!! MY GOD!!!!! Ma truck!!!!!! MY TRUCK!!!!!!,
MADERA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My name is Brian Kenney Fresno, and I have this super fun solo ROCK show
where I sing modern TALES of urban
legends and epics of the absurd- in a
sing along format, mostly about Fresno Ca, my home town, and everytime I say
"Fresno", everybody eats the raisins and says "WHOOO!" in a group
experience.
It's really fun!
Everybody laughs a lot!...more
supported by 4 fans who also own “Ma Dog, Ma Truck, Madera.”
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