Saddest" Country Song

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Bob Miano
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Saddest" Country Song

Post by Bob Miano »

How about it! What is your choice for the
most "cry in your beer" country song?
I'll vote for "DOWN TO SEEDS & STEMS AGAIN"
by Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen.
(Lost his dog, his wife left, the finance company repossessed his home........)
Anybody have any others?
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Bob
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Post by Andy Greatrix »

My answer would be a Dallas Frasier song called "The Girl I Almost Knew",sung by George Jones.As for losing your house, car,and job, that's just stuff.It doesn't compare to a broken heart.
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Kitty Wells "How far is Heaven"

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Post by Joe Casey »

Justin Tubbs "as long as there's a Sunday" Red Sovine's "Teddy Bear"..and there were some pitiful ones like the stuff out now.
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Post by Earnest Bovine »

I'm not much of a singer, but I can get thru "Giddy Up Go" which tears 'em up.

The other song I sing is "Down To Seeds And Stems Again" so I guess I am a really sad case.
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Post by Anne Marie O Keeffe »

I know I could come up with a few if I thought about it for a while but the first one to mind is "He Stopped Loving Her Today".

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Post by Billy Johnson »

"Mom & Dads Waltz" by Lefty,especially when yours have passed on.
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Post by erik »

Avoid sharp objects when listening to Single Again by Gary Stewart. Not only sad but very dark.

These Days (I Barely Get By) by George Jones... or The Door.
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Post by George Rozak »

"Little Rosa" by Red Sovine, "Raggedy Ann" bu Little Jimmey Dickens, & of course "Old Shep" by Red Foley.
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Post by Dave Van Allen »

"Chiseled in Stone" Vern Gosdin is a qualifier!
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Post by Rich Paton »

Dave, when I read this topic title, "Chisled in Stone" had just ended playing on the CD deck. I figured my response would be a no-brainer, so it was weird when I saw your answer!

The first time I heard that song and the words hit home, the effect was like taking a hard, fast medicine ball right in the gut.
I would definitely have to second you on the choice.

"Got The Down To Seeds & Stems Again Blues" is a campy, (but delightful), tongue-in-cheek parody of "The Real Thing"! It's a real hoot.

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Post by Rich Paton »

And here's a weird one...while married, back in 1977, I drove home shortly after work.
All the furniture was gone, and a note was on the mantle...

So, after the initial surprise dissipated a bit, I grabbed my stash of Columbian Red and headed for my buddy's place where we had often spent a lot of time drinking Busch Bavarian and listening to great music.

So, I'm sitting stoned stupid on the couch, and the very first thing he puts on the stereo was a brand new Neil Young album, which started on a tear-jerker country tune I hadn't heard.

I wound up loving that song, have played it lots of times in bars and dives, and even talked my brother into playing the fiddle again because of it. Now he's nearly a virtuoso fiddler.

So...the very first music I heard as a freshly emancipated, 26 year old single man was...

"They were playin' that Old Country Waltz,
In this empty bar, echoin' off the wall.
When I first got the bad news, that you set me free...
The band played the Old Country Waltz, to me"

Great fiddle and PSG (Ben Keith) on the tune.

And with that, the Albatross winged her way briskly into the setting sun......

How could one not dig such a tune, when it fits you so perfectly?

BTW, I ceased imbibing herbs in 1979.
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Post by Kenny Dail »

Its hard to pick just one fav. I always got a lump when I hear Melba Montgomery do "Paid In Full". Image Image

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Post by Robbie Bossert »

MAMA HATED DIESELS.
COMMANDER CODY AND THE LOST PLANET AIRMEN
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Post by Andy Greatrix »

Also, how about "If You're Gonna do Me wrong, Do it Right". Vern Gosden can hurt you big time, when he wants to.
All the best,-Andy
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Post by frank rogers »

"Window up above" by the "Possum".
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Post by Jake Doell »

How about the Last Letter.A suicide note if
I ever heard one.

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Post by Joe Allwood »

For me, it's gotta be "These Days (I Barely Get By)" with "I'll Be Over You When the Grass Grows Over Me" as a close second, both by George Jones.
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Post by Fred Martin »

Long Black Limosine or Too Many Rivers.
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Post by Dave Robbins »

Last Letter by Jack Green!!!!!!!
Man, that song tells it all. If it don't make you cry or want to do the gun or rope thing nothing will!Jack sounds like he's ready to breakdown any time on that cut.
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Post by Ken Lang »

Not sure it's been written yet, but it will probably have Fischer and the Grand Ole Opry somewhere in the lyrics.
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Post by Stephen Gregory »

Psycho by Jack Kittel, sad and scary!
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Post by Tommy Mark »

How bout Mel Street I Met A Freind of Yours today- recently covered by Geo. Strait. Another one is Cold Hard Facts of Life by Porter Wagner....And I Dreamed About Mama Last Nite. Hank SR. There`s so many... Tom
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Post by Richard Sinkler »

There are so many. I will have to go with "Chisled in Stone" also. When that album was released, the rate of suicides off the Golden Gate Bridge quadrupled. I was there ready to jump many times myself. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "Gitty Up Go" are tied for second.

D@mn, where's my cyanide.

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