in the new billy currington song, good directions, why does he say?

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• lol..I have seen this question a few times now. He is thanking the fact that he was on the side of the road selling turnip greens because if he had not been doing that…then he would have not crossed paths with the woman. If she hadn’t stopped for directions because he was there selling them he would not have met her

• Turnip greens are the above ground part of turnips. Once, in NC my neighbor asked me why I was throwing away the ‘good part’ of the turnips. Being from the north, I only ate the bulb part of turnips.

  He says thank god for good directions and turnip greens because he just happened to be out on the side of the road selling turnip greens from a flat bed truck when the hot cнιcκ needed directions.

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  in the new billy currington song, good directions, why does he say?

  thank god for good directions, and turnip greens?

• Good Directions

• I’m from the South and to my knowledge that is no cliche just what it says…turnip greens. If it weren’t for him selling the turnip greens he would have never been sitting there to meet this girl!

• because he was sitting there selling turnip greens from the back of his truck when she pulled up… see the lyrics below… she came back to him at the end of the song, if it weren’t for his good directions and turnip greens, she wouldn’t be there with him.

  I was sittin’ there sellin’ turnips on a flatbed truck

  Crunchin’ or a pork rind when she pulled up

  She had to be thinkin’ “This is where the rednecks come from”

  She had Hollywood written on her license plate

  She was lost and lookin’ for the interstate

  Needin’ directions and I was the man for the job

  [Chorus]

  I told her way up yonder past the caution light

  There’s a little country store with an old Coke sign

  You gotta stop in and ask Miss Bell for some of her sweet tea

  Then a left will take you to the interstate

  But a right will bring you right back here to me

  I was sittin’ there thinkin’ ‘bout her pretty face

  Kickin’ myself for not catchin’ her name

  I threw my hat and thought, “You fool, that coulda been love”

  I knew my old Ford couldn’t run her down

  She probably didn’t like me anyhow

  So I watched her disappear in a cloud of dust.

  [Chorus]

  I told her way up yonder past the caution light

  There’s a little country store with an old Coke sign

  You gotta stop in and ask Miss Bell for some of her sweet tea

  Then a left will take you to the interstate

  But a right will bring you right back here to me

  Is this Georgia heat playin’ tricks on me

  Or am I really seein’ what I think I see

  The woman of my dreams comin’ back to me

  She went way up yonder past the caution light

  Don’t know why, but somethin’ felt right

  When she stopped in and asked Miss Bell for some of her sweet tea

  Mama gave her a big ‘ol glass and sent her right back here to me

  Thank God for good directions…and turnip greens

• b/c if he was not selling turnip greens on the back of his truck that day he never would have met the girl!

  hope this helps

• a lot of people eat greens….they are the tops of turnips, they also eat the turnip but the greens are by them selves