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* ShoutOut: "Bigger than Music/TheBeatles" (which has the ending "Yeah yeah yeah yeah!" from "She Loves You" line incorporated into the song) also has lyrics referencing Music/ElvisPresley, Music/TheRollingStones, and the Music/{{Eagles}}.
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* ShoutOut: "Bigger than Music/TheBeatles" (which has the ending "Yeah yeah yeah yeah!" from "She Loves You" line incorporated into the song) also has lyrics referencing Music/ElvisPresley, Music/TheRollingStones, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, and the Music/{{Eagles}}.
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* KnightOfCerebus: In a sad meta sense: he was the first celebrity death of the COVID-19 pandemic. For some, it was an awakening that [[AnyoneCanDie no one was safe]].
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* KnightOfCerebus: In a sad meta sense: he was the first celebrity death of the COVID-19 pandemic. For some, it was an awakening that [[AnyoneCanDie no one was safe]].
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->''Truck hits a Big Boy in the Shoney's parking lot \\
And flies through the air takes out the bank clock\\
And flies through the air takes out the bank clock\\
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Heads for a semi truck, jumps the curb\\
Truck hits a Big Boy in the Shoney's parking lot \\
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Lines go down, town goes dark.''
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Lines go down, town goes dark.''dark\\
Waitress calls the cops, says she saw it all\\
Swears a giant alien has landed at the mall\\
Cops ring up the mayor, say "There's panic in the streets\\
We hate to wake you up, but we can't find the chief"\\
Mayor says "Use your head, if he ain't in his car\\
He's hiding from his wife down at Smokey's Bar."''
Waitress calls the cops, says she saw it all\\
Swears a giant alien has landed at the mall\\
Cops ring up the mayor, say "There's panic in the streets\\
We hate to wake you up, but we can't find the chief"\\
Mayor says "Use your head, if he ain't in his car\\
He's hiding from his wife down at Smokey's Bar."''
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-->''And the whole town said the boy should have used red\\
But it looked good to Charlene in John Deere green.''
But it looked good to Charlene in John Deere green.''
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->''They gotta love bigger than the Beatles,\\
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->''They gotta got a love bigger than the Beatles,\\
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* ShoutOut: "Bigger than Music/TheBeatles" (which has the ending "Yeah yeah yeah yeah!" from "She Loves You" line incorporated into the song) also has lyrics referencing Music/ElvisPresley, Music/TheRollingStones and Music/TheEagles.
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* ShoutOut: "Bigger than Music/TheBeatles" (which has the ending "Yeah yeah yeah yeah!" from "She Loves You" line incorporated into the song) also has lyrics referencing Music/ElvisPresley, Music/TheRollingStones Music/TheRollingStones, and Music/TheEagles.the Music/{{Eagles}}.
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* OldManConversationSong: "Ships That Don't Come In" has the narrator meet an old man at a bar. They converse about their lives when the old man says that at least the two of them have had opportunities that the others have not.
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* PrecisionFStrike: In "Ships That Don't Come In": "''We bitch about a dollar when there's those without a dime''."
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->''The kid guns the gas, car starts to swerve\\
Heads for a semi truck, jumps the curb\\
Truck hits a Big Boy in the Shoney's parking lot \\
Heads for a semi truck, jumps the curb\\
Truck hits a Big Boy in the Shoney's parking lot \\
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Heads for a semi truck, jumps the curb\\
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* ''All in the Same Boat'' (with Aaron Tippin and Sammy Kershaw) (2014)
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* ''All in the Same Boat'' (with Aaron Tippin Music/AaronTippin and Sammy Kershaw) Music/SammyKershaw) (2014)
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There ain't no paint in the world that'll cover it, the heart keeps showing through
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There ain't no paint in the world that'll cover it, the heart keeps showing throughthrough
* TruckDriversGearChange:
** "New Way (To Light Up an Old Flame)" goes from A to B-flat.
** "John Deere Green" from G to A.
* TruckDriversGearChange:
** "New Way (To Light Up an Old Flame)" goes from A to B-flat.
** "John Deere Green" from G to A.
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* OpenSecret: In "Third Rock from the Sun" Both the police Chief's wife and the mayor seem to be well aware that he's hiding down at the bar, hitting on women while pretending to be working late.
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* AllForNothing: The chaos in ''Third Rock from the Sun'' is set into motion by the chief of police deciding to hit on an attractive woman who walked into the bar and his wife seeing through his excuse. According to the music video, the chief of police just got himself a slap in the face upon hitting on the woman, meaning that he would have been better off just going home even without all of the disasters set into motion.
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* DisasterDominoes: PlayedForLaughs in "Third Rock From the Sun", when the joy riding teenagers inadvertently cause the whole town to suffer a blackout as a result of this trope.
->''The kid guns the gas, car starts to swerve\\
Heads for a semi truck, jumps the curb\\
Truck hits a Big Boy in the Shoney's parking lot \\
And flies through the air takes out the bank clock\\
Clock strikes a light pole, transformer sparks\\
Lines go down, town goes dark.''
->''The kid guns the gas, car starts to swerve\\
Heads for a semi truck, jumps the curb\\
Truck hits a Big Boy in the Shoney's parking lot \\
And flies through the air takes out the bank clock\\
Clock strikes a light pole, transformer sparks\\
Lines go down, town goes dark.''
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The chain of events in "Third Rock from the Sun" is started by a man in a bar who calls his wife to tell her that he's working late, when in reality he's having an affair with another woman. The wife calls over her sister for consolation, but the sister's boyfriend drives off to buy beer. In the process, the boyfriend's car is stolen by teenagers, who crash it into a semi truck and cause a power outage, which freaks out a waitress who calls the cops. The cops then call the mayor because they can't find the sheriff -- who as it turns out, is hiding from his wife at the bar.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The chain of events in "Third Rock from the Sun" is started by a man in a bar Smokey's Bar who decides to go for a fling. He calls his wife to tell her that he's with a lie about working late, when in reality he's having an affair with another woman. The wife who calls over her sister to come over for consolation, but the sister's whose boyfriend drives goes off to buy beer. In the process, the boyfriend's car a beer, whose pickup is stolen by teenagers, who crash it into teenagers on a semi truck and cause a power outage, which freaks out a waitress who calls joyride... The eventual chain of chaos ends in the cops. The cops then call calling the mayor because they can't find the sheriff Chief of Police -- who as it turns out, is hiding from his wife still at the bar.Smokey's Bar.
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* SweetieGraffiti: In "John Deere Green", a man named Billy Bob paints "Billy Bob Loves Charlene" on a water tower. The couple marries and the sign of their love remains visible, despite the town's attempts to cover it up.
--> Now more than once, the town has discovered painting over it ain't no use\\
--> Now more than once, the town has discovered painting over it ain't no use\\
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* SweetieGraffiti: In "John Deere Green", a man named Billy Bob paints puts "Billy Bob Loves Charlene" on a water tower. tower in the titular paint. The couple marries and the sign of their love remains visible, visible well after they've married, despite the town's numerous attempts to cover it up.
--> Now -->Now more than once, the town has discovered painting over it ain't no use\\
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* DoWrongRight: In "John Deere Green", the townspeople take issue not with the fact that a teenager vandalized a water tower, but that he used green instead of red paint to declare his love for a girl.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: From "I'm in Love with a Capital 'U'": "Every time the teacher said pi R squared, all I could think about was going to lunch."
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* SweetieGraffiti: In "John Deere Green", a man named Billy Bob paints "Billy Bob Loves Charlene" on a water tower. The couple marries and the sign of their love remains visible, despite the town's attempts to cover it up.
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* SweetieGraffiti: In "John Deere Green", a man named Billy Bob paints "Billy Bob Loves Charlene" on a water tower. The couple marries and the sign of their love remains visible, despite the town's attempts to cover it up.up.
--> Now more than once, the town has discovered painting over it ain't no use\\
There ain't no paint in the world that'll cover it, the heart keeps showing through
--> Now more than once, the town has discovered painting over it ain't no use\\
There ain't no paint in the world that'll cover it, the heart keeps showing through
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Ain't life such a sweet, sweet song.
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Ain't life such a sweet, sweet song.''
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->''The got love bigger than the Beatles,\\
Wild and free like a Rolling Stone,\\
They gotta love takes 'em higher than the Eagles,\\
Ain't life such a sweet, sweet song.
-->"Bigger than The Beatles"
Wild and free like a Rolling Stone,\\
They gotta love takes 'em higher than the Eagles,\\
Ain't life such a sweet, sweet song.
-->"Bigger than The Beatles"
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* TheCameo: The video for "Bigger than The Beatles" has a couple of shots of a Beatles tribute act singing the "Yeah yeah yeah yeah!" line towards the end of the song.
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* ShoutOut: "Bigger than Music/TheBeatles" (which has the ending "Yeah yeah yeah yeah!" from "She Loves You" line incorporated into the song) also has lyrics referencing Music/ElvisPresley, Music/TheRollingStones and Music/TheEagles.
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* EightiesHair: Rocked a mullet in the early part of his career in the 90s. He toned it down as the decade came to a close but always wore his hair slightly longer at the back than fashionable.
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* ShoutOut: "Bigger than Music/TheBeatles" also has lyrics referencing Music/ElvisPresley, Music/TheRollingStones and Music/TheEaglesMusic/TheEagles.
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Diffie died on March 29, 2010 after being stricken with COVID-19, or coronavirus.
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Diffie died on March 29, 2010 2020 after being stricken with COVID-19, or coronavirus.
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Joe Logan Diffie (1958-) is a CountryMusic singer who rose to popularity in TheNineties. He was known for his honky-tonk sound and his mix of ballads and novelty songs.
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Joe Logan Diffie (1958-) is (1958-2020) was a CountryMusic singer who rose to popularity in TheNineties. He was known for his honky-tonk sound and his mix of ballads and novelty songs.
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Although the hits dried up by the end of the decade, Diffie has continued to record to this day, with later albums focusing more heavily on ballads. He also had a stray hit as a songwriter in 2005 when Music/JoDeeMessina covered his "My Give a Damn's Busted".
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Although the hits dried up by the end of the decade, Diffie has continued to record to this day, would continue recording, with later albums focusing more heavily on ballads. He also had a stray hit as a songwriter in 2005 when Music/JoDeeMessina covered his "My Give a Damn's Busted".
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* HomesicknessHymn: Diffie's breakout song "Home" offers up a cornucopia of the narrator's memories of home growing up, and expresses longing for that simpler, more comforting time.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Before having any hits of his own, he wrote and sang backing vocals on Holly Dunn's "There Goes My Heart Again".
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Before having any hits of his own, he wrote and sang backing vocals on Holly Dunn's late 1989-early 1990 hit "There Goes My Heart Again".
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* RearrangeTheSong: Both "John Deere Green" and "Third Rock from the Sun" were rearranged for the radio edit: the former had cleaner instrumentation with some of the repeats removed, and the latter took out a couple instruments and a LyricalColdOpen.
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!Albums
*''A Thousand Winding Roads'' (1990)
*''Regular Joe'' (1992)
*''Honky Tonk Attitude'' (1993)
*''Third Rock from the Sun'' (1994)
*''Mr. Christmas'' (1995)
*''Life's So Funny'' (1995)
*''Twice upon a Time'' (1997)
*''Greatest Hits'' (1998)
*''A Night to Remember'' (1999)
*''In Another World'' (2001)
*''Tougher than Nails'' (2004)
*''Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album'' (2010)
*''All in the Same Boat'' (with Aaron Tippin and Sammy Kershaw) (2014)
*''A Thousand Winding Roads'' (1990)
*''Regular Joe'' (1992)
*''Honky Tonk Attitude'' (1993)
*''Third Rock from the Sun'' (1994)
*''Mr. Christmas'' (1995)
*''Life's So Funny'' (1995)
*''Twice upon a Time'' (1997)
*''Greatest Hits'' (1998)
*''A Night to Remember'' (1999)
*''In Another World'' (2001)
*''Tougher than Nails'' (2004)
*''Homecoming: The Bluegrass Album'' (2010)
*''All in the Same Boat'' (with Aaron Tippin and Sammy Kershaw) (2014)
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* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: In "Honky Tonk Attitude":
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And every girl's on the dance floor shakin' her... Well
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And every girl's on the dance floor shakin' her... WellWell...
** "Down in a Ditch" pulls off a double-subverted rhyme:
--> I'm runnin' this shovel way down in a ditch\\
When you're down in a ditch, it's a son of a gun\\
Any fool knows you'll never get rich\\
When you're down in a ditch in the Tennessee sun
** "Down in a Ditch" pulls off a double-subverted rhyme:
--> I'm runnin' this shovel way down in a ditch\\
When you're down in a ditch, it's a son of a gun\\
Any fool knows you'll never get rich\\
When you're down in a ditch in the Tennessee sun
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Joe Logan Diffie (1958-) is a CountryMusic singer who rose to popularity in TheNineties. He was known for his honky-tonk sound and his mix of ballads and novelty songs.
A native of Tulsa and a former foundryman, he was divorced and bankrupt by the time he moved to Nashville in the mid-80s. An encouter with producer-songwriter Bob Montgomery led to him signing to Creator/EpicRecords, who released his debut album ''A Thousand Winding Roads'' in 1990. Lead single "Home" made him the first artist to send a debut single to #1 on all three of the major country music charts of the time (''Billboard'', ''Radio & Records'', and ''Gavin Report''). Followup albums ''Regular Joe'', ''Honky Tonk Attitude'', ''Third Rock from the Sun'', and ''Life's So Funny'' found his sound refining into a commercially successful product.
Although the hits dried up by the end of the decade, Diffie has continued to record to this day, with later albums focusing more heavily on ballads. He also had a stray hit as a songwriter in 2005 when Music/JoDeeMessina covered his "My Give a Damn's Busted".
Diffie was heavily referenced in Music/JasonAldean's 2013 hit "1994".
!Tropes present in his work:
* AlbumTitleDrop: ''A Thousand Winding Roads'' is name-dropped in lead single "Home".
* BlackComedy: In "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)", the narrator asks for his corpse to be placed beside the jukebox with a "[[{{pun}} stiff drink]]" in his hand.
* CerebusSyndrome: ''A Night to Remember'' was more driven by smooth soft ballads, with none of the novelty sounds of his 90s albums.
* ChristmasSongs: ''Mr. Christmas'', issued in 1995, features the comedic track "Leroy the Redneck Reindeer", about Rudolph's redneck cousin Leroy who fills in for a sick Rudolph one Christmas.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Present in "Bigger than the Beatles". A waitress in a bar and a musician who performs in the bar are very much in love. Sometimes she forgets an order because she's thinking about how handsome he is, and sometimes he forgets to sing a chorus because he's thinking about how beautiful she is.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Before having any hits of his own, he wrote and sang backing vocals on Holly Dunn's "There Goes My Heart Again".
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The chain of events in "Third Rock from the Sun" is started by a man in a bar who calls his wife to tell her that he's working late, when in reality he's having an affair with another woman. The wife calls over her sister for consolation, but the sister's boyfriend drives off to buy beer. In the process, the boyfriend's car is stolen by teenagers, who crash it into a semi truck and cause a power outage, which freaks out a waitress who calls the cops. The cops then call the mayor because they can't find the sheriff -- who as it turns out, is hiding from his wife at the bar.
* HonestJohnsDealership: The subject of "If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)", which is about the narrator getting taken advantage of by the owner of such a dealership called "[[MeaningfulName Diablo Motors]]".
* PornStache: A part of his look for most of his peak years.
* SpellingSong: Played straight with "C-O-U-N-T-R-Y", but subverted with "I'm in Love with a Capital 'U'":
-->You got me feeling so G-U-D\\
It's more better than I thought it could be\\
Girl, you taught me things that I never learned in school\\
I'm in love with a capital "U"
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: In "Honky Tonk Attitude":
-->Well the waitress never leaves you with a half-empty glass\\
And every girl's on the dance floor shakin' her... Well
* SweetieGraffiti: In "John Deere Green", a man named Billy Bob paints "Billy Bob Loves Charlene" on a water tower. The couple marries and the sign of their love remains visible, despite the town's attempts to cover it up.
A native of Tulsa and a former foundryman, he was divorced and bankrupt by the time he moved to Nashville in the mid-80s. An encouter with producer-songwriter Bob Montgomery led to him signing to Creator/EpicRecords, who released his debut album ''A Thousand Winding Roads'' in 1990. Lead single "Home" made him the first artist to send a debut single to #1 on all three of the major country music charts of the time (''Billboard'', ''Radio & Records'', and ''Gavin Report''). Followup albums ''Regular Joe'', ''Honky Tonk Attitude'', ''Third Rock from the Sun'', and ''Life's So Funny'' found his sound refining into a commercially successful product.
Although the hits dried up by the end of the decade, Diffie has continued to record to this day, with later albums focusing more heavily on ballads. He also had a stray hit as a songwriter in 2005 when Music/JoDeeMessina covered his "My Give a Damn's Busted".
Diffie was heavily referenced in Music/JasonAldean's 2013 hit "1994".
!Tropes present in his work:
* AlbumTitleDrop: ''A Thousand Winding Roads'' is name-dropped in lead single "Home".
* BlackComedy: In "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)", the narrator asks for his corpse to be placed beside the jukebox with a "[[{{pun}} stiff drink]]" in his hand.
* CerebusSyndrome: ''A Night to Remember'' was more driven by smooth soft ballads, with none of the novelty sounds of his 90s albums.
* ChristmasSongs: ''Mr. Christmas'', issued in 1995, features the comedic track "Leroy the Redneck Reindeer", about Rudolph's redneck cousin Leroy who fills in for a sick Rudolph one Christmas.
* DistractedByTheSexy: Present in "Bigger than the Beatles". A waitress in a bar and a musician who performs in the bar are very much in love. Sometimes she forgets an order because she's thinking about how handsome he is, and sometimes he forgets to sing a chorus because he's thinking about how beautiful she is.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Before having any hits of his own, he wrote and sang backing vocals on Holly Dunn's "There Goes My Heart Again".
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The chain of events in "Third Rock from the Sun" is started by a man in a bar who calls his wife to tell her that he's working late, when in reality he's having an affair with another woman. The wife calls over her sister for consolation, but the sister's boyfriend drives off to buy beer. In the process, the boyfriend's car is stolen by teenagers, who crash it into a semi truck and cause a power outage, which freaks out a waitress who calls the cops. The cops then call the mayor because they can't find the sheriff -- who as it turns out, is hiding from his wife at the bar.
* HonestJohnsDealership: The subject of "If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)", which is about the narrator getting taken advantage of by the owner of such a dealership called "[[MeaningfulName Diablo Motors]]".
* PornStache: A part of his look for most of his peak years.
* SpellingSong: Played straight with "C-O-U-N-T-R-Y", but subverted with "I'm in Love with a Capital 'U'":
-->You got me feeling so G-U-D\\
It's more better than I thought it could be\\
Girl, you taught me things that I never learned in school\\
I'm in love with a capital "U"
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: In "Honky Tonk Attitude":
-->Well the waitress never leaves you with a half-empty glass\\
And every girl's on the dance floor shakin' her... Well
* SweetieGraffiti: In "John Deere Green", a man named Billy Bob paints "Billy Bob Loves Charlene" on a water tower. The couple marries and the sign of their love remains visible, despite the town's attempts to cover it up.
