Creepy country songs

Bo Legg · Post by **Bo Legg** » 12 Aug 2008 5:17 pm

"Wanna see something really scary again?"

Adam Goodale · Post by **Adam Goodale** » 28 Mar 2010 11:59 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tt4BJec7vY

we do this one on some of our dance hall shows. i think wynn stewart put it out to. its a real good shuffle and its fun to play. 1-2-4-5 back to 1. good stuff!

Larry Rafferty · Post by **Larry Rafferty** » 29 Mar 2010 5:48 am

Here's a little known Johnny Cash song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcsqaWwOglM

Ryan Knudson · Post by **Ryan Knudson** » 29 Mar 2010 7:32 am

Twa Sisters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twa_Sisters

Chuck Cusimano · Post by **Chuck Cusimano** » 29 Mar 2010 2:31 pm

Wow! Seven pages. I just don't have the time to read them all, so my pick, (Sorry if someone already mentioned it) Is also a Paycheck song. It came out about 1966 or 67, and it was called "The Cave" It was about a dream about beine a teenager going into a cave, and then hearing a huge explosion. When he came out the world had been destroyed. I played that one over and over and over .....I used to know the lyrics, but that has been a long time ago. It started out like,

"I had the strangest dream last night that I have ever dreamed.

I was just a boy again, just barely in my teens...."
I think Paycheck may have written this one and he also searched for this kind of material.

Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 29 Mar 2010 5:57 pm

I didn't read all the posts but I heard Willie sing "I just can't let you say good bye" on Willies place yesterday. I forgot how eerie it was. You could never get a song like that recorded today. My old boss, Les Severs, recorded a song titled "The Purest Pearl" about a guy whose wife died and he didn't tell anybody. He kept her at home and would move he from chair to bed and kiss her "cold, cold lips" good night.
That didn't get much air play either.

Dave Van Allen · Post by **Dave Van Allen** » 31 Mar 2010 9:38 am

"Fancy" by Bobbie Gentry- about a mother turning her daughter out... pretty creepy...

Stephen Gregory · Post by **Stephen Gregory** » 12 Jun 2011 2:27 pm

You just can't get any creepier than this. http://www.amazon.com/I-Cant-Wait-Any-L ... B000W11HF4

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 12 Jun 2011 3:14 pm

Please make it stop!

Stephen Gregory · Post by **Stephen Gregory** » 12 Jun 2011 5:25 pm

All kidding aside, truly the creepiest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftOCvwrygCI and with Bill Murray & Matthew McConaughey here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y39wJxkcOhk

Charles Davidson · Post by **Charles Davidson** » 12 Jun 2011 8:31 pm

Back in the late 50's used to do a little tune[I KNOW YOU BEEN SLEEPING WITH A BALDHEADED MAN, CAUSE THIS MORNING YOU WOKE UP WITH A TOUPEE IN YOUR HAND] YOU BETCHA,DYK?BC.

Jim Cooley · Post by **Jim Cooley** » 13 Jun 2011 5:48 am

Earl Had to Die - Dixie Chicks

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 13 Jun 2011 4:14 pm

Stuck Like Glue-Sugarland

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 13 Jun 2011 4:59 pm

...good one theresa!

Theresa Galbraith · Post by **Theresa Galbraith** » 13 Jun 2011 5:15 pm

chris,
I get one right every once in awhile on here!

John Peay · Post by **John Peay** » 13 Jun 2011 5:32 pm

Red Sovine's "The Funeral"....Hank Sr. recorded it also, but I like Red's version better.

Dave Hopping · Post by **Dave Hopping** » 14 Jun 2011 7:50 am

I don't think anyone has yet mentioned "Carroll County Accident"...OK,covering up Dad's adultery after he's dead isn't the creepiest thing ever done,but there's just something about Porter that convinces me he's STILL the head of the Miskatonic University Alumni Association.

frank rogers · Post by **frank rogers** » 15 Jun 2011 6:47 am

Stephen Gregory wrote:All kidding aside, truly the creepiest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftOCvwrygCI and with Bill Murray & Matthew McConaughey here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y39wJxkcOhk

The best thing about this song is that I can say that I'm in a Hollywood movie scene with Bill Murray & Matthew McConaughey. LOL.

Michael Haselman · Post by **Michael Haselman** » 15 Jun 2011 6:10 pm

Ok, this thread is too long, so I'm not going through the whole thing, but try this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svsSBGzx8AI Marvin Rainwater's "Albino (Pink Eyed) Stallion." I've been told by one who knows that the eerie falsetto parts between verses are sung by him. I sing a mean falsetto and I can't even hit those notes. Ooh, scary kids!!

Mitch Drumm · Post by **Mitch Drumm** » 15 Jun 2011 7:48 pm

Speaking of stallions, falsetto, and the creeps, take a whiff on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGSzdPrIwxM

It's "The Castration Of The Strawberry Roan" by The Sons Of The Pioneers. Sorta x-rated, so listen at your own risk and squeamishness.

The vocalist is well-known Hollywood actor Dick Foran--recorded in 1942. It's a Doctor Pepper transcription recording that was not commercially released.

Bill Bassett · Post by **Bill Bassett** » 16 Jun 2011 2:26 pm

Every Breath You Take by The Police is about the creepiest song I can think of. I'm amazed it is so often requested at weddings.

Others on my list include:

Ode To Billy Joe

The Wreck On The Highway

Phantom 409

Hello Everybody (I'm A Dead Man) Asleep at the Wheel

Bret Raper · Post by **Bret Raper** » 21 Jun 2011 3:43 pm

"Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On" by Tom T. Hall. A true story about a guy who is on his way to the electric chair after killing several local citizens for their teasing him about being too sick to fight in WWII.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 21 Jun 2011 11:30 pm

a couple oldies... Woolverton Mountain & Running Bear, Tom Dooley

JERRY THURMOND · Post by **JERRY THURMOND** » 22 Jun 2011 5:23 am

I don't remember who done it 1st but what about

The Face On The Bar Room floor

Jerry

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 23 Jun 2011 4:49 am

"South Of Cincinnati" by Dwight Yoakam.

Matt, are you related to musician/songwriter Julian Dawson?

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