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Marty;I think that was Toby Keith and Sting.

I think the song is called "My girl friday"
also:"growing up in Pictures"-Alabama and the #1 of all time::"Today my World Slipped Away"-George Strait

WOW ! Thanks everybody for the input.
I am familiar with a bunch of these songs,
but there are some I haven't heard. I'll have to track a few down as they sound
great.
Anybody else want to chime in here, go ahead.

Bob

Bruce W.
That song title brings back memories. Originally came out in 1970/71. Was driving home from work and heard it on the radio one day and the part about both sitting at the table having coffee reminded me so much of my baby girl I just had to have that song. Pulled into the mall on the way home and bought the cassette, learned the song on flat-top that night. Now, she is grown up, gone, and has small ones of her own. Boy, talk about "Sweet Memories", "How I love This Little Girl of Mine!!"

Still grab the flat-top and play that for her every once in a while.

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"Put My Little Shoes Away". Late 40's, done up here in Canada by Wilf Carter. About a little child that knows it's going to heaven.

And I agree with Joe about "Amazing Grace"

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"Mommy ,can i still call him daddy....."
Dottie West and ??????

George Jones, "Things have Gone to Pieces" Hag's I Must Have Done Something Wrong"
"If I thought my hand was against you, why, I'd cut off my arm, and walk off and leave it behind. And if I thought that you needed money, I'd sell my own soul, and I'd even steal from the poor and the blind.

I laughed til I cried when I heard these songs.

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There are a couple that are so old I cant remember who sang them; Silver Haired Daddy of Mine and Wreck on the Highway (think this was Hank Sr). Long Black Veil by Lefty and more recently Farewell Party and Paper Rosie by Gene Watson and probably the saddest of all He Stopped Loving Her Today and there is a really sad one that Patty Loveless did a couple of years ago (cant remember the name)

1. "I Just Lost My Favorite Girl." Don Adams
2. "The Old, Old House"----G. Jones
3."You Had a Call(From a Broken Heart Last Night)" Faron Young----written by Dickie Overbey
4."If Not for Jennifer" vocal by Jimmy Day,Steel by Buddy Gene, and written by Ronny Light, at the age of 16!

for willie waits:

Here I Am by Patty Loveless. Yes, that is a great song, and sad too. I think Patty Loveless has been my favorite female singer over the past decade or so. She always records the profound songs... and the cool songs like Blue Side of Town (love those drums!).

"My Son Calls Another Man Daddy" - Hank Williams

I'll have to put my vote in for Last Letter.

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I think Patty is great too!
You Don't Even Know Who I am, Patty
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Hank
The Song Remembers When, Trisha
I Never Go Around Mirrors, Keith
You And Your Friend,Dire Straits
I Just Drove By, Wynonna

ANother precinct heard from

"You wouldn't even cross the street to say 'goodbye'" Willie Nelson

"Once you said youd do most anything to keep our love
you'd tear out your tongue before you'd tell me lies
Once you said you'd crawl on hands and knees to be with me...
Today You wouldn't even cross the street to say 'goodbye'"'

A tearjerker (for me anyway) from the modern (?) era...

"Today I braved the graveyard rain.. to place a rose between their names... and that's the most that ever came between the two of them... And I miss them, oh so much... his crooked smile, her tender touch, and the pleasure of just growing up.. between the two of them." "Between The Two of Them" recorded first by Alabama, later by Tanya Tucker. I think Mickey Cates was the songwriter.

All great Songs... I agree Jack Greens "Last Letter" gets to me every time. Lefty's "Mirrors" is another.

I think "Go rest High" by Vince Gill would be
my vote. "When I call your name" is also a favorite.

Happy Trails...

Jerry

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Willie Nelson's "Opportunity to Cry."

"Just watched the sun rise on the other side of town.

Once more I waited, and once more you let me down.

This would be the perfect time for me to die.

I'd like to take this opportunity to cry."

Willie was the Master of rippin' your heart out and stomping the dog-crap out of it in the '60s--------before he became a success.

Lefty Frizzell - "I Never Go Around Mirrors"
"I Can't Get Over You to Save My Life"
Roger Miller - "When a House Is Not a Home"
Don

I can see there are some great sad songs listed here. I haven't heard most, and I'd love to read the lyrics somewhere (so thanks to those who quoted some of the songs). I think Vince Gill's "Worlds Apart" might make the list. We have a 3 year old, and I know that in only a few blinks of an eye she'll be all growed up and gone, so to speak.

"There's nothing quite as empty
As when children go away
And all that's left are memories
Of all those yesterdays

"You can't understand the feeling
'Til it finds its way to your heart
Why do you and me have to be worlds apart"

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Took my first hard drink after playing "Whiskey Chasin" for the 5th time on the jukebox.

I would have to say lyrically it's the old Hank Williams favorite "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You".

Just about anything by George Jones, and "Chiseled In Stone" by Vern, which has already been mentioned a couple of times.

One thing's for sure - the sadder the better!

Scott H.

"Somebody Should Leave" - Reba.

Twittys' had some gut wrenchers too. His "Only Make Believe", "Last Date", "Lonely Blueboy", "Danny Boy", "Lying here, with Linda on My Mind"..etc. If people only knew how inspired and awe-struck we get when we play behind some of these words. (and it's even better when the singer KNOWS 'em all too)!

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You've all come up with some beauties, but I can't believe no one has thought of THE DRUNKEN DRIVER, by Ferlin Husky. We have a national county music programe here in Australia that ran a competition for the saddest country song and it won hands down.

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