Thursday, May 21, 2009

We've Got Both Kinds...

...Country [pause] and Western!

Okay, so there's two fiction inspired posts in one day today. This one's inspired by The Blues Brothers, the scene where they go to Bob's Country Bunker and wind up playing a country & western bar. Saw a clip of the start of that scene the other day, and it got me to thinkin'...

What could I sing in that scenario? Could I do an entire C&W set of songs I know by heart?

So, naturally, I had to sit down and list all the country songs I could sing by heart:

Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
This is My Town - Montgomery Gentry
How Do You Like Me Now - Toby Keith
Forever and Ever, Amen - Randy Travis
Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash
Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels
Move It On Over - Hank Williams
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
Crazy - Patsy Cline
King of the Road - Roger Miller
Chattahoochie - Alan Jackson
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys - Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings
God Bless The USA - Lee Greenwood (I'll sing this one just for Marko)
Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynette



Fourteen songs - about two hours' worth - would make a pretty decent show...

That is all.

5 comments:

Bob said...

What, can't you sing Never Even Called Me By My Name by David Allan Coe? Shame on you.

Brad_in_MA said...

Jay,

Fourteen songs - about two hours' worth - would make a pretty decent show...Make a decent show? With *your* voice? Who are you kidding, besides yourself? Dogs would run away in horror, their ears forever ruined by the cacaphonous assault on their senses. Not that I have much of a voice either, coming from a very long line of tone-deaf Austrians.

- Brad

PS -- check your email.

Unknown said...

Check out Youtube or Napster for some Hayseed Dixie for some fascinating C/W Rock crossover music. You will never be the same. And if you like that, listen to some Dread Zeppelin. Some laugh, some cry, but everyone needs to hear it once!

Sabra said...

Bob, I hate that damned song. The Ride is like 10,000 times better, but you mention David Allan Coe and everyone thinks of that song. (Kinda like how The Devil Went Down to Georgia is the only song anyone knows by the CDB, in spite of pretty much everything else they did being better.)

Jay, not a bad set. I won't mention how many of them make my ears bleed.

Home on the Range said...

How about the world's worst country songs?

At the Gas Station of Love, I Got the Self Service Pump

Cow Cow Boogie (Moo Moo My Love)
This one's been performed by everyone from The Judds to Mel Torme.

Don't Chop Any Wood Mother, I'm Comin' in With a Load! unknown

Don't Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes at Me. unknown

Four on the Floor and a Fifth Under the Seat. Written by Rex Pearce

Get Off the Table, Mabel (The Two Dollars is for the Beer. Written by Richard Friedman

Hand me the Pool Cue and Call Yourself an Ambulance (courtesy of Tom, who isn't sure it's a real song.

How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away? Written by Leonard Linnehan & Louis Philip Perry

I Gave Her the Ring, and She Gave Me the Finger

I Went Back to My Fourth Wife for the Third Time and Gave Her a Second Chance to Make a First Class Fool Out of Me

I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dawg Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win

I'd Rather Pass a Kidney Stone than Another Night With You

Is It Cold in Here, or Is it Just You? by Joe Diffie.

One Day When You Swing That Skillet (My Face Ain't Gonna Be There). By Richard (Dick) Hardwick

Thanks To The Cathouse, I'm In The Doghouse With You. Written by Max Barnes, Frank Saulino & James Valentini .

And my personal, all-time favorites:

Get Your Tongue Out Of My Mouth, Because I'm Kissing You Goodbye.

I still miss you Baby, but my aim is getting better.