In Spite Of Ourselves: A Great Song -- and more tales of True Love.
What do legendary musicians Iris DeMent and John Prine, crazy-good writer, Joyce Maynard and Jim Barringer, a SF lawyer , for goodness sake, all have in common? True love, Baby, true love! Joyce and her true love, Jim got themselves hitched this summer and posted online that they sang a duet a cover of In Spite Of Ourselves including a few of their own verses at the end (see below). I happen to love the original song and think they're additional lyrics below are clever and creative enough to warrant my posting here. Watch: FROM JOYCE MAYNARD'S FACEBOOK PAGE: So , to accompany the pictures posted below by my friend, of Jim and me singing at our wedding last Saturday, I wanted to share the lyrics to John Prine's "In Spite of Ourselves", with my add-on verse. (Jim wrote a great one , but I don't have it handy. I bet if you go to his FB page--Jim Barringer-- he'll oblige.....(and you'll get a nice big dose of lefty politics while you'