Country Songs

Started by Lise, Apr 12 07 10:07

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Queer Eye

[FONT color=#ff00ff]Best lyrics ever![/FONT]

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[FONT color=#ff00ff]The Gambler - Kenny Rogers[/FONT]

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[FONT color=#ff00ff]On a warm summers evenin on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin out the window at the darkness
til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.

He said, son, Ive made a life out of readin peoples faces,
And knowin what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you dont mind my sayin, I can see youre out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey Ill give you some advice.

So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, if youre gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.

Now evry gambler knows that the secret to survivin
Is knowin what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
cause evry hands a winner and evry hands a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.

So when hed finished speakin, he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.

You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count you r money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.[/FONT]  

weird al

I've never been a major country fan, and although I like Johnny Cash a lot, I never particularly liked A Boy Named Sue. Except for this verse, especially the last line:

   [FONT face=Verdana size=2]Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes
And he went down, but to my surprise,
He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear.
But I busted a chair right across his teeth
And we crashed through the wall and into the street
Kicking and a' gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer. [/FONT][/DIV]

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Clean, crisp writing, and not pretty. And that finish, with the internal rhyme and alliteration, has always stood out as first-class serious (and funny) writing.

  I seem to remember that last line differently from the way it's quoted though. I always thought it was

  "just a-kickin' and a-gougin' in the mud 'n' the blood, etc."

P.C.

I love the lyrics to that song.  I think it was written by Shel Silverstein (sp?) and strange coincident.....I heard that song yesterday.  weird al...I thought that there were several more verses after that ?

  *edit....I misread your post......oops[/DIV]

  We have a book that is written to look like it's a kids book (but it's not) called ABZ.....it's hilarious.  You have to be in the right 'mood' to experience the side splitting writing.      
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Devil

I like the Eagles. Some of their music could be considered country. "Seven Bridges Road".

Lise

I thougtht the Eagles were not Country Music folks?
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Devil

They are rock...were rock.

But some of their songs were kind of crossover songs. My folks love the Eagles.

Lil Me

lol remembering the Seinfeld eposide where Elaine dated "Desperado".
 
 I like Don Henley's solo albums. Joe Walsh- not so much.
   
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Future Canadian

Yee-haw! I have an embarrassing amount of country music on my 'pod. Although I agree that most radio-country would have me following y'all off that thur big ol' buildin' (I'll be the one with the ice picks in my ears). Having said that I recommend the following to all music fans:
    Hank Williams III - awesome country flavored tunes that make me wanna get drunk (and I don't even drink). Straight to Hell is a great album, particularly "Country Heroes"
    Merle Haggard - (don't laugh) his newer stuff is some tremendous songwriting. You can hear he is free from the shackles of radio demands. If I Could Only Fly is an album that any fan of singer-songwriter type music should have.
    Dixie Chicks - Mostly a political choice here, but the song "Lullaby" off their newest album is very nice.
    Various Gems - there are a lot of great songs hidden in any genre. "Flowers on the Wall" by the Statler Bros., "Portland. Oregon" by Loretta Lynn and Jack White, "Me Neither" by Brad Paisley, "Smoke Rings in the Dark" by Gary Allan (I would so love to hear an alterna-cool cover of this by someone like Sebadoh), and finally "My Mind's got a Mind of it's Own" by Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
       
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weird al

Who did that thing that goes like

  "till I get me a head

full o' honky red,

and I don't give a good goddam"

  great stuff.  

P.C.

lol weird al.....them thar lyrics don't look familiar.

  I just thought of another 'country flavour' artist I like....John Hyatt.  Perfectly Good Guitar.

Good stuff.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.