Whisky Falls Hellbillies Lyrics

I was unable to successfully locate these lyrics anywhere... but this is too good a song to ignore. Here is my interpretation...

Hellbillies
        by Whiskey Falls

Hey, y'all                             Crank that fiddle

Turn your face drum up    Let's meet in the middle

It's a honky-tonk                Way down by the river

'Cuse we're loud, proud,   redneck raisin' Hellbillies

We're raisin' Hell-billies

Baby we're born in the boondocks     Way down in the hollow

Everybody here's                               Gotta work for the dollar

Hole in the ground                             From our jacked-up trucks

'Cus we bent all the steel                   Tryin' to light it up

Girls in the back                                 Of the flat-bed shakin'

Little tank-tops                                   With their donky-donks bakin'

Catfish frying                                      Jumping out of the pan

With the cold beer chillin'                    In the garbage can

   And the ribs on the fire

   And the corn cakes flippin'

   Moonshine buzz

   And a little skinny dipping 

   [Boing]

Hey, y'all                            Crank that fiddle

Turn your face drum up     Let's meet in the middle

It's a honky-tonk               Way down by the river

Where the party never ends

Hey, y'all,                            The fish are jumping

Bodies getting close         And the party's pumping

Lightin' it up                      Gettin' stone cold silly

'Cuse we're loud, proud, redneck raisin' Hellbillies

We're raisin' Hell-billies

Tearing it up                    As the dirt goes flying

Mud on the tines             Of the four we're riding

Son of a gun                    To Hell with 'em

Just to have a little fun

With the girls in the short shorts     Turning your head

And the paintball shots                    Flying by your head

And the redneck roughneck            Backwoods party

Boys in the trucks                             And the girls showing body

   Long legs hotter

   Than a hot buttered biscuit

   Y'all come along

   'Cuse you don't want to miss it   [Boing]

Hey, y'all,                              Crank that fiddle

Turn your face drum up       Let's meet in the middle

It's a honky-tonk                 Way down by the river

Where the party never ends

Hey, y'all,                             The fish are jumping

Bodies getting close          And the party's pumping

Lightin' it up                        Gettin' stone cold silly

'Cuse we're loud, proud, redneck raisin' Hellbillies

We're raising Hell-billies

When the sun goes down    We turn the truck lights on

Goin' to strip it on down      Get the party on

We got Whiskey Falls         On the radio

Let's turn it up                       And watch..  it.. FLOW!!

[Guitar solo]

Hey, y'all,                             Crank that fiddle

Turn your face drum up      Let's meet in the middle

It's a honky-tonk                Way down by the river

Where the party never ends

Hey, y'all,                            The fish are jumping

Bodies getting close         And the party's pumping

Lightin' it up                      Gettin' stone cold silly

'Cuse we're loud, proud, redneck raisin'...

Hey, y'all,                             Crank that fiddle

Turn your face drum up      Let's meet in the middle

It's a honky-tonk                Way down by the river

Where the party never ends

Hey, y'all,                            The fish are jumping

Bodies getting close         And the party's pumping

Lightin' it up                      Gettin' stone cold silly

'Cuse we're LOUD, PROUD, REDNECK  RAISIN' HELLBILLIES

WE'RE RAISING HELL-BILLIES 

Use AutoRuns to Control Windows Background Apps

After some time, a Windows computer becomes slower, with performance degrading steadily because of a bloated registry, along with many small applications running in the background. If your computer can have memory installed easily (through inserting a module in an open memory slot), that would be the quickest way to boost performance. In a previous post, I highlighted the applications CCleaner and EasyCleaner 2 for helping to slim-down the registry. Another utility I use for identifying background apps that load on Windows start-up is Microsoft's AutoRuns.  AutoRuns displays application paths buried in the Windows registry, not just the startup folder, but ALL sections of the registry that Windows refers to when it 'boots-up.'

In 2010, newer computers come with roughly four gigabytes of RAM, and over 200 gigabytes of hard disk drive capacity. With all that memory, one would think that having many programs running in the background wouldn't matter. Au contraire, mes amis. It's not just the memory used, it's the slices of processing power (a.k.a. 'threads') used by these apps that can rob performance over time. The answer? If you've found your computer is slow, download and run AutoRuns and take a look at all the logic loaded in your computer's memory when it starts up. You'll be shocked.

Just because there are many items loaded in your computer's memory, that does not mean all or even most of them are superfluous. Windows requires a lot of logic loaded into memory to handle fonts, disk read/writes, sounds, printers, mice, keyboards, and monitors. Much of this logic is loaded into memory in the form of device drivers, and each computer comes with its own mix-and-match combination of drivers that are provided by the vendor (or which must be manually loaded by you if you're loading Windows by yourself). Device drivers are relatively small and efficient. It's big applications that don't enhance your day-to-day PC experience that are candidates for the chopping-block.

So how do you know which apps to remove?
Soon after Windows starts, open the Windows Task Manager (right-click on the task bar and choose the Task Manager menu item), then select the "Processes" tab and click on the memory column to sort by memory. If you don't recognize a process, highlight it by double clicking on it. Then right-click the process and choose the 'kill' option. Sometimes these will re-appear, which means Windows requires this driver. Some applications will have interesting results if killed (such as "explorer"). Some will not allow you to terminate them since you don't have enough privileges to do so. Note the apps that had the most memory that you got rid of successfully (that didn't re-appear), and try to locate them with AutoRuns. If you do find the app, then all you need to do to prevent it from loading the next time you start your PC is deselect the check-box to the application's left.

Experiment, but be careful. Your reward is a slimmed-down system with fewer process-hungry apps running in the background!

Workstation Maintenance

Rarely have I lost my work due to computer disaster. It has happened, but not too often, because I maintain a fairly strict regimen of computer health. Since computers are the tools I depend on, I perform the following maintenance on Windows PCs and Macs...

Windows (XP/Vista/7):
Download CCleaner, Defraggler, and Easy Cleaner. I run Defraggler about once a week to defragment my hard disk drives, but you can get away with running it once a month or even once a season. Just don't ignore your computer's hard disk drive. I run a combination of the registry cleaners from CCleaner and Easy Cleaner 2 to maintain a healthy registry about twice a month. You could depend on Microsoft's tools in the System Tools folder, but I've grown to ignore Microsoft's tools as lowest-common-denominator and wouldn't mind if someone created a script to uninstall most of the tools from their operating system altogether.

Also, I have successfully run Fred Langa's XP's No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total Rebuild Option for the Registry and found that it really does slim-down the Windows Registry and makes one's computer run faster without having to re-install software like Microsoft Office. I would not run this unless you've backed up your whole hard disk drive and are comfortable with re-installing the backup image if something goes wrong.

Mac OS X:
I was unable to easily locate an open-source hard disk drive defragmenter for the Mac, but a Google search did bring up Coriolis System's iDefrag. There is a free version that shows you how fragmented your hard drive is. If you don't want to defragment your hard drive, or feel that the drive isn't fragmented enough to fork over $30, then you don't have to do another thing. If you're like me, and get kind of anal about your hard disk, then $30 is chump-change compared to an inefficient drive.

I also back up my whole hard disk drive using the partimage program off of a Knoppix or Ubuntu live CD, at least for Windows machines (TimeMachine works just fine for my Mac needs), but that will have to be covered in another blog post.