What do you think Goodbye Earl means?

Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl Meaning

Album cover for Goodbye Earl album cover

Song Released: 2000


Goodbye Earl Lyrics

Mary anne and wanda were the best of friends
All through their high school days
Both members of the 4h club
Both active in the ffa
After graduation mary anne went out lookin
For a bright new world
Wanda looked all around this town
And all...

  1. anonymous
    click a star to vote
    Sep 27th 2018 !⃝

    Crimes doesnt pay. Let the police handle it mary anne. Dont let dirty blood into your hands.

  2. anonymous
    click a star to vote
    Sep 30th 2017 !⃝

    Omg I can’t find any literary devices in this song! Help?

  3. Lisa69
    click a star to vote
    Jul 24th 2014 !⃝

    Catchy song about murdering someone....Good material.
    This song says to me that it's ok to kill someone if they're harming you...say a boss that yells at you or maybe that guy that took your parking spot ( for the last time)... I'm sure prisons wouldn't be overpopulated if this thinking caught on...we could all be makin jam and selling ham...
    I don't agree with domestic violence or hitting woman but I think Tim McGraw doesn't have a problem... Maybe he should have some black eyed peas ...

  4. principessa_21
    click a star to vote
    Jul 18th 2007 !⃝

    This song deals with an abusive relationship and one way to deal with it. The girl in the song meets a guy named Earl who seems perfect-that is until they get married and he begins physically abusing her, i.e. Hitting. Her friend decides to have him killed and they later find out that no one even cared that Earl was gone. Its one of the few songs that gets away with singing about murdering someone...impressive.


More Dixie Chicks songs »


 


 


Submit Your Interpretation

[ want a different song? ]




Just Posted

40 Day Dream anonymous
Just What I Needed anonymous
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) anonymous
Up to You anonymous
This is Home anonymous
Trying anonymous
Devil Town anonymous
16/04/16 (Jack's Song) anonymous
It's All Good anonymous
Boys Will Be Bugs anonymous
Sharpener anonymous
Grey Space anonymous
Idea of Her anonymous
You Wear It Well coolhandred
Bang! anonymous

(We won't give out your email)