She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy...She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy

"A refrain is a word, a phrase, a line, or a group of lines repeated at intervals in a poem" (Hamilton's Essential Literary Terms 230).

This line took me back to a past lifetime (at least it feels like it) to when I played the piano.  I played for five not-so-glorious years and today I can't read music at all really.  It's a shame.  Anyway, enough about me.  I believe that a refrain in music is when you go back and play a certain line, or sometimes all you've played to that specific point, over again.  How cool is that!?  Songs do this ALL THE TIME; it's called a chorus.  The chorus usually tends to reveal the main idea of the song, while the verses go more into showing or telling why whatever the chorus says is true.  Here's an example though if you need one.  It's Kenny Chesney's song "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"

Plowing these fields in the hot summer sun
Over by the gate lordy here she comes
With a basket full of chicken and a big cold jug of sweet tea
I make a little room and she climbs on up
Open up a throttle and stir a little dust
Just look at her face she ain't a foolin me

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy

We ride back and forth until we run out of light
Take it to the barn put it up for the night
Climb up in the loft sit and talk with the radio on
She said she's got a dream and I asked what it is
She wants a little farm and a yard full of kids
One more teeny weeny ride before take her home

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy

Well she ain't into cars or pick up trucks
But if it runs like a Deere man her eyes light up

She thinks my tractor's....

She thinks my tractor's sexy
It really turns her on
She's always staring at me
While I'm chuggin along
She likes the way it's pullin' while we're tillin' up the land
She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan
She's the only one who really understands what gets me
She thinks my tractor's sexy

She thinks my tractor's sexy
She thinks my tractor's sexy

See what I mean? 

"A refrain is a word, a phrase, a line, or a group of lines repeated at intervals in a poem" (Hamilton's Essential Literary Terms 230).