The Marshall Tucker Band is going to be with romney's campaign

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87. Actually the lyrics are clever. It contains all the cliches

from country and pop songs that justify being a rambler and unfaithful lover, but ultimately all he can do to justify his behavior is say "heard it in a love song, can't be wrong." But of course it can be wrong, which the song itself proves. It's pretty meta for a country rock song. This goes over most people's heads, I guess.

Toy Caldwell, who wrote the song, is long dead. I don't know what his politics were but he was a two-tour Vietnam vet and the band, as the OP points out, did do Randy Newman's "Mr. President (Take Pity on the Working Man)" on a 1982 album, which was written to criticize Richard Nixon and would have been read as criticism of Ronald Reagan then. Clearly the only remaining original member, Doug Gray, the vocalist, is now a bone-headed Rethug.