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All my exes live in Texas.

I tried to drink her pretty but she's still about two fifteen

I love this bar

At night she walks the beaches of Cheyenne

She came to me one evening a cup of coffee and a smile


There's tons of em out there. Fun thread

Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun
And you might meet 'em both if you show up here not welcome son

I kind of made it up. It’s off of an old Hank Williams tune he supposedly wrote in a hour while flying on an airliner.


Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
That means he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry

So I made for the creek
Where she and I did meet
And found her with some other lover
And I put three rounds into Kate McCannon

Who ever said it must have been 30ish. When you get closer to 50 something always aches, no need to wait for the sun to come up.

Dang, I ain’t read the whole thread. Holy smokes, 11 pages and counting!
When I read the title, my mind went straight to “I was drunk the day my mom got outta prison”. Great Country Song! I don’t know if you can get more country than that.
But there’s just too many great songs, too many great stories, too many great lyrics that run through my mind!
I guess I’ve always sorta lived as Waylon sang, “I’ve always been crazy, but it’s kept me from going insane”!
7mm

This one came to mind first.

Dead skunk in the middle of the road

"The .44 spoke and it sent lead and smoke. Seventeen inches of flame." Marty Robbins from Mr. Shorty.

"The Judge said son, what is your alibi? If you were somewhere else, then you won't have to die....I spoke not a word. Though it meant my life, for I had been in the arms of my best friend's wife."

Lefty Frizell "Long Black Veil"

"I read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fightin'...And I wonder just how long the rest of us can count on bein' free."

Merle Haggard "Fightin' side of me"

"But when we get behind closed doors, and she lets her hair down low, and she makes me glad, that I'm a man.....Cause no one knows what goes on behind closed doors..."

Charlie Rich "Behind closed doors"

"I woke up this mornin' tastin' Jim Beam. Holding the answer to some old boy's dream. Got a bad reputation guess I'm a live wire like my whiskey on ice and my women, on fire."

Hank Williams, Jr. "Whiskey on Ice"

"Postman delivered, a past due bill notice and the alarm clock rang two hours late. Garbage man left all the trash on the sidewalk, and the hinges fell off of the gate. And this morning at breakfast, I spilled all the coffee, and opened the door on my knee.....The last thing I needed, the first thing this morning, was to have you walk out on me."

Pure poetry, by Willie Nelson.

So many good songs from country music, but to my mind, this is a masterpiece. https://youtu.be/ad9De8V07a4

You don’t know about lonely

until it’s written in stone.

Chiseled in Stone Vern Gosdin!

"Some say that I'm egotistical...Hell I don't even know what that means...I guess it has something to do with the way that I fill out my skin tight blue jeans...."

Mac Davis "Oh Lord it's hard to be humble"

"We fired our guns and the British kept a comin' there wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago. Fired once more and they began a runnin' on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico"

And he said ain't they all a mystery ha ha sonny it's a sin
They're all sittin' on the world we're tryin' to win
Ah but you know I love a mystery
So let's drink another round to you and me and them

Being from Kentucky and the son of a coal miner, I guess I have to add this one since I can empathize:

"I was born a coal miner's daughter. In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler. We were poor but we had love, that's the one thing Daddy made sure of. He shoveled coal to make a poor man's dollar."

Bobby Bare:

And son you say you still wanna be a winner

Got the pig in the ground and the beer on ice.... all my rowdy friends are commin over tonight

A little John Conlee:

“These Rose colored glasses, that I’ve been looking through,
Show only the beauty, cause they hide all the truth
And they let me hold on to the good times, good lines
The ones I used to hear when I held you
And they keep me from feeling so cheated, defeated
When reflections in your eyes show me a fool”


And from Ray Price:
“Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel
And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine
This ain't no crazy dream I know that it's real
You're someone else's love now you're not mine
Crazy arms that reach to hold somebody new
For my yearning heart keeps saying you're not mine
My troubled mind knows soon to another you'll be wed
And that's why I'm lonely all the time”

And one from George Straight:
“He talks to angels and the stars start to spin
He thinks of troubles that he's gotten in
He recalls how his heart got broken
And how it's still that way
The king of broken hearts is so sad and wise
He can smile while he's cryin' inside
We know he'll be brave tonight 'cause he's the king of broken hearts”

And some Dwight Yoakum:
“He said listen to me son while you still can, run back home to that Southern land
Don't you see, what life here has done to me
Then he closed those old blue eyes, and fell limp, against my side
No more pain, and now he's safe back home in Dixie

And I sang Dixie, as he died
But people just walked on by, as I cried
The bottle had robbed him, of all his rebel pride
So I sang Dixie as he died

I sang Dixie as he, died”