Regarding "Me and My Horse"
The song title is illustrative of Meade dipping into the American songbook - about which his knowledge is as deep as it is broad. The American song canon is of course sprinkled with a generous helping of "Me and My" songs upon which Meade, in his latest, is "signifyin(g)" (see Gates, The Signifying Monkey).
These songs include:
For Me and My Gal (an American standard heard in the 1942 film of the same name)
Me and My Shadow (an American standard recorded by many artists)
Me and My Uncle (John Phillips; popularized by the Grateful Dead)
Me and My Chair (sung by a boy in a wheelchair about how his chair helps him move around, Sesame Street episode 1706)
"Me and My Drum" (chorus to "The Little Drummer Boy," immortalized by Bing Crosby and David Bowie in a
1977 Christmas special)
(Everbody's Got Something to Hide Except for) Me and My Monkey (from across the pond, but Meade can admire good songcraft regardless of its origins)
Me and My Drank (Lil Wayne's classic; like Meade, Wayne make a point of "representing our South" with lyrics that have lessons for all of us, perhaps especially grammar snobs:)
You bottle pop, I buy a bottle pop
Drop some syrup in it, get on my waffle house
I live in Wayne's world, represent our south
And this is how we do it, do it in our south
One more ounce will make me feel so great
Wait... now I can't feel my face
Um up in the studio me and my drank, me and my drank, me and my drank
Up in the studio me and my drank, me and my drank, me and my drank
Will somebody please please double cup me
And everybody please please don't judge me
Will somebody please please double cup me
And everybody please please don't judge me
Some people are in the judgment game.
Most of those people are FOOLS and HYPOCRITES
They got nothin going on, but judging someone else
makes them feel special.
But throwin stones from they glass houses
Ain't no way to live
/sermon