Question:
Classic Country Fans, what's some of your favorite LINES from some CLASSIC COUNTRY SONGS? (funny or not)?
anonymous
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Classic Country Fans, what's some of your favorite LINES from some CLASSIC COUNTRY SONGS? (funny or not)?
21 answers:
swrong
2007-08-30 20:09:44 UTC
OK, this is a long one, but I LOVE this part of Bobby Bare's "Numbers":



She looked up and down my perfect frame

And said these words that burned into my perfect brain.

She said, well, another one of those macho matician men

Kind who grade all women on scales of 1 to 10

And, you give me an 8, well, that's a generous thing to do

Now, let's just see, just how much I give you.

She said you comin' on to me with that phony numbers jive

Your style makes me smile, I give it a 5

When you walked up I noticed that suit of yours

It's last year's double-knit frayed-cuffs, give it a 4.

That must be your car parked out on the curb

That 69 homemade convertible, a 3 and a 1/3

Now, as for your build, I guess you're less than 5

Except, for your pot belly, I'd give that a 10 for size.

That wine you're pourin' might be fine to you

But I'm used to fine champagne, I give it a 2

It's hard to tell what your flashin smile is worth

I give it a 6, you could use some dental work.

But, it's your struttin rooster act that really makes me laugh

It may be a 10 to these country hens, but to me a 3 and a 1/2

And there really ain't much to add once the subtractin's done

Since there ain't no 0's, I give you a one!.



Also, love the Statler's, "You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith Too":



Then we went to a drive-in show.

you were kissing on Kate, she wouldn’t let you go

I looked at Edith, started feeling bold.

I found your big, hairy hand holdin on

to the hand I was trying to hold.
country_girl
2007-08-31 00:28:07 UTC
Hey Man, Them ain't high heeled sneakers, and they sure don't look like cowboy boots, that ain't rock and roll you're playing, and it sure ain't country or rhythm and blues, You're singin a song about makin love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on, and we don't all get into Donna Summers, do You happen to know any Old Hank Williams songs.....





I am young, but I feel that way when I'm at a club. This is one of my favorite Hank songs (Dinosaur) ....LOVE IT!!



Oh, I also love Cry, by Johnny Cash...the entire song.



Are You Sure Hank Woulda Done it This Way (Waylon Jennings) is amusing to me as well.



Are the Good Times Really Over For Good (Merle or Hank both do a great job). "When a buck was still silver" "Are we rolling down hill like a snow ball headed for hell? With no kind of chance for the flag or the liberty bell...Is the best of the free life behind us now...Are the good times really over for good?"





All my songs seem depressing....sorry!
Martin
2007-08-31 07:02:00 UTC
I wanna play!!!



He says: "Every single day it gets,

"Just a little bit harder to handle and yet. . ."

Then he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered,

And the words just rolled off down the gutter.



On the Sunday morning sidewalk,

Wishing, Lord, that I was stoned.

'Cos there's something in a Sunday,

Makes a body feel alone.

And there's nothin' short of dyin',

Half as lonesome as the sound,

On the sleepin' city sidewalks:

Sunday mornin' comin' down.



Chewin' chawin' gum, chawin' chewin' gum



Somewhere near Salinas Lord, I let her slip away



Pack up all your dishes.

Make note of all good wishes.

Say goodbye to the landlord for me.

That son of a ***** has always bored me.

Throw out them LA papers

And that moldy box of vanilla wafers.

Adios to all this concrete.

Gonna get me some dirt road back street



This is addictive....I better stop now ;)
Kelly M
2007-08-31 02:03:49 UTC
"The last thing I gave her was the bird, and she returned the favor with a few selective words.." - The Bird by George Jones



" Last night I broke the seal on a Jim Beam decanter, that looked like Elvis. " "I soaked the label off a Flintstone Jelly Bean jar." " I pulled the head off Elvis, filled Fred up to his pelvis, Yabba Dabba Do, the King is gone, and so are you." Yabba Dabba Do (The King Is Gone) by George Jones



"If my old truck was a horse, I'd have to shoot it, Lord the day my ship came in, I was waitin for a train." Somebody Always Paints the Wall by George Jones



" I know she wasn't always what she is now, Lord she had to make mistakes like everyone else." " And don't you point your finger at nobody, it's plain to see that you aint no saint yourself" She's My Rock by George Jones
old_woman_84
2007-08-30 20:57:43 UTC
Totally impossible to pick one so had to think:

"I looked on outta the window

And I started countin phone poles

Goin by at the rate of 4 to the 7th power

So I put 2 and 2 together

And added 12 and carried 5

Cume up with 22 thousand telephone poles an hour"

(Misspelling done on purpose.)

Good ol' C.W.
anonymous
2007-08-30 16:38:50 UTC
1. I done told you once, you son of a *****, I'm the best that's ever been. -Charlie Daniels



2. I'm stuck in Spokane in a motel room... Lord, I wish I had a Dolly Parton tape. -Tom T. Hall



3. If it snows, that stretch down south will never stand the strain. -Glen Campbell



4. It's nice to think about it, maybe even visit, but I wonder could I live there anymore? -Charley Pride



5. Then inscribe the world's biggest foooool, and name - it - af - ter - meeeeee. -Jack Greene
♥Fancy♥
2007-08-30 16:16:53 UTC
Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind) - Loretta Lynn



It ain't the car I want, it's the brunette in your vet that turns me on - George Jones "The Corvette Song"



Last Night I came in at two with a ten but at ten I woke up with a two - Willie Nelson "Ten With A Two"



Women Like you are a dime a dozen you can buy them anywhere - Loretta Lynn " You Ain't Woman Enough"



then one of my overall favorite bands is Restless Heart.
Detfan
2007-08-30 15:08:43 UTC
"There must be some way I can lose these lonesome blues, forget about the past and find somebody new."



I don't know why I just like that line.



"Two days later when I'd thought I'd been forgotten, the sheriff came in chewing on a straw. He said, "Where is the guy who thinks that this is Indianapolis? I'd like to talk to him about the law."

Long I know, but you need it all to have it make sense.
anonymous
2007-08-30 16:09:57 UTC
Danny Reeve - "im a hobo, always on the go"

Cash - dont take your guns to town son leave your guns at home

Cline - crazy for cryin crazy for tryin . .

Coe - they said that the beatles were just the beggining of everything music could be
Dragons Slayer
2007-08-30 10:54:32 UTC
More of a novelty song but I love The Streak by Ray Stevens

'Don't look Ethel' but it was to late, she'd already been incensed.
Jessica T
2007-08-30 16:57:23 UTC
Now this broken back was the dyin act of a handsome Harry Clay, that sticky Cincinnati night I stole his wife away.

But that woman she gets uglier and she gets meaner every day, But I got her boy and that makes me the winner

"The winner" Bobby Bare
missywose
2007-08-31 02:25:22 UTC
"Thank GOD and Greyhound You're Gone" - Roy Clark

" I Got the Hungries for Your Love, and I'm Waitin' in Your Welfare Line" --Buck Owens These a just a couple of the funny ones.
classic
2007-08-31 00:45:12 UTC
Roger Miller....Trailers for sale or rent...rooms to let 50 cents..no phone, no pool, no pets...ain't got no cigarettes...I'm a man of means by no means...King of the road.



Kenny Rogers...You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille...four hungry children and a crop in the field..



George Jones...I don't need yore rockin chair, your Hadachol or your Medicare.......GO POSSUM
anonymous
2007-08-30 19:19:15 UTC
"The roses have faded, there's frost at my door

The birds in the morning don't sing anymore

The grass in the valley is starting to die

And out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry."



That's from Hank Williams' song "Alone and forsaken"
macybluedawn
2007-08-31 01:39:43 UTC
I've got a lot of them! But here are a couple I like a lot:



You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'.

You never even called me by my name.

David Allen Coe



And girl while you're walking out, please walk out real slow, cause I'm learning as you go.

Rick Trevino
tll
2007-08-30 14:36:23 UTC
Well Okiefan...I believe one of my fave lines from a classic is taken from the song "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers...many gamblers should take heed the advice.....lol...



"You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,

Know when to walk away and know when to run."



It just makes me laugh...the running part....I must say, i am not a classic expert, but this one gets me everytime!
Ayla B
2007-08-31 02:19:57 UTC
"What we are and what we ain't

What we can and what we can't

Does it really matter?"

-Feed Jake by Pirates of the Mississippi



Oh, here's another one....

"Straight'n the curves

flatten' the hills

someday the mountain might get him

but the law never will"



You know who sings that one!
anonymous
2007-08-30 18:42:14 UTC
From Workin Man Blues



Aint never been on welfare thats one place I wont be





of course nowadays thats offensive
?
2007-08-30 14:42:22 UTC
" Here that lonesome whipper will he sounds to blue to fly. The midnite train is whinning low I,m so lonesome i could cry."



Brings chills to my spine when ever i hear Hank Sr. sing this.
anonymous
2007-08-30 16:26:17 UTC
At the bottom of this mine stood a BIG MAN,

BiG BAD JOHN
lou-lou
2007-08-30 14:54:58 UTC
"...All the federales say, they could've had 'em anyday." - Pancho & Lefty


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