http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=170p6OjeS...re=related

*Edit to add* Usher,when he comes out of the closet officially boy are the women going to be shocked! lol He butchered that song. I don't like that or him much.






Well, it'll just get you down
If you let life get to you
'Cause everybody's saying something
None of it's true

Well, I just don't care
When them times get hard
'Cause I got everything I need
Right out in my yard

(Chorus):
I love my truck, she's right outside
I ain't got much love but I sure got a ride
It don't matter who lived
It don't matter who lied
I got my truck right by my side

You got Sally and you got Sue
And I got a Chevrolet
She takes me home after work
Don't ever miss a day

She don't care what I am
She don't care what I ain't
But she ain't no cheap pick-up
She just needs a couple coats of paint

(Chorus)

Yeah

She don't care if I don't work a lick
She'll start every time if the choke don't stick
I know that she will never doubt me
'Cause she never leaves home without me

(Chorus)

I got my truck right by my side, yeah
I got my truck right by my side

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Poor Mr.Campbell, he was just recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's. But his music will always make me smile.


Country music speaks to the brass tacks, bare bones of the everyday man and woman's mundane reality. It's suppose to be funny, it's suppose to be touching, it's suppose to be patriotic, it's suppose to be vittles and grits.

It speaks in jargon the simple man/woman understands. The everyday grind, the deep sorrow, the questions, the satisfaction after working hard.
I like contemporary country music. I also like some of the old classics.
It makes me smile when I remember growing up and learning to dance with my now dead relatives, when I was a little boy and we all laughed smiled and tore up a rug having a good time. They forgot the grind of paying bills, meeting the mortgage, living on in a bad marriage, etc... And I lived a little boy's life of bliss, not knowing what any of that meant.

Sometimes.

Listen to this and try to laugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyJd-ZwtA...re=related

Country music has become a genre for those with a tiny bit of talent that can't make it anywhere else. If they fail at that, they start making Christian music.

Sometimes funny, some times poignant,depending on mood. I find country music just dandy if I want disconnect my cerebral cortex and wallow in self pity.

Unintentionally funny:

Bobby Bare "Dropkick Me Jesus through the goal posts of life""


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWg0bt9kp4

Poignant/self pitying

Leeann Rimes "Blue"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I62uwbyD2pU

A lot of country pop is pretty damned pathetic and therefore funny. Johnny Cash and his era, not so much.

(August 7, 2011 at 11:48 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: Country music has become a genre for those with a tiny bit of talent that can't make it anywhere else. If they fail at that, they start making Christian music.

Or rap.

I just had a 'orrible thought; Christian Rap! Suddenly I don't feel at all well.

(August 8, 2011 at 3:00 am)padraic Wrote: I just had a 'orrible thought; Christian Rap! Suddenly I don't feel at all well.

Oh, that actually exists. Here you go, this is bitchin'...



Jesus is my homeboy!

I hate the genre, but as far as good/funny lyrics go;

Kenny Rogers - Ruby;

You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted hair.
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The Shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down -
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town

It wasn't me that started that old crazy asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to be...
Oh Ruby I still need some company.

Its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralysed
And THE WANTS AND the needs of a woman your age, Ruby I realize,
But it won't be long i've heard them say until I'M not around
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town

She's leavin' now 'cause I heard the slammin' of the door
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town
Oh Ruby
God sakeS turn around