You're Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore notes
"This next song is for Lois and Ernie, I started out delivering mail to Maywood, then Broadview, and ended up with Westchester - routes nobody wanted. We hated to see Readers Digest come, people who would get them, would get them for the rest of their lives. I didn't read any of it except for 'Humor in Uniform'. At the height of the Viet Nam war, there was a silent majority, they were really quiet - Reader's Digest was part of it, they just stuck these plastic flag decals in their magazine, no reason, they just snuck them in there. The next day, there were flag decals everywhere. Anyway, Lois and Ernie owned the 'Dirty Book Store' and this good old protest song is for them." ~ John Prine, Proviso East High School, Maywood Il, 2/26/00
"This is an old gospel tune I wrote for the Reverend Carl B. Macintyre. I don’t know if any of you are familiar with Carl. He’s been going around for a long time. He’s a preacher and his main slogan is "Kill for God" – he’s been going around for years doing that, he gets a lot of headlines too. This is a song that Brenda Lee is going to record… it’s for Carl." ~John Prine, London, August 8, 1976