I thought you might be amused by this new song I just heard. It's about the Texas culture I grew up in but it also catches some of the old Louisiana spirit and also Florida in the TruthTeller thread that you turned me on to.
Jesse Dayton's "Daddy Was A Badass”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeJpA5oJQcc
The third stanza sounds just like the fantasies of my old running buddies.
Daddy made it out of the drilling rig patch
And gamblin' paid for his school
The University of Texas, sure got reckless
Livin' on eight-ball pool
He had backroom, all-night poker games
A pistol by a rotary phone
He was a hot-tip handicapper on football
Never took a student loan
So he passed with honors by sellin' numbers
To everybody in his class
Then he drove back home to old east Texas
(Well you know what he was!)
Well, maybe not the pistol part ...