Jerry Reed Quotes
She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.
DuBois, Tim. "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)." The Bird, performed by Jerry Reed, RCA Records, 1982.
Even in this early era, women had their own property.
Jerry Reed Hubbard was an American country music singer, guitarist, composer, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man", "U.S. Male", "A Thing Called Love", "Alabama Wild Man", "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're Hot" (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male), "Ko-Ko Joe", "Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound and Down" (the theme song for the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit, in which Reed co-starred), "The Bird", and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)".