List Songs, #3: "You Know the Rest"

The minor virtues of cleverness and wit are highly prized in the list song genre. Less frequently, you will encounter list songs like Lucinda Williams' "Sweet Old World" that are truly profound. Here, in Steve Earle's "You Know the Rest," we find a felicitous melding of the two, giving us a little ditty about Judeo-Christian civilization, retributive justice, imperialism, and so on. Enjoy!