Favorite LINE in a Country song, not necessarily the hook

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Favorite LINE in a Country song, not necessarily the hook

Post by Dave Van Allen »

I'm partial to "what a fool I was to think I could get by, with only these few million tears I've cried" (Haggard-Today I started Lovin' You Again)

and "If you play A-11 there'll be tears" (Cochran-A-11)

as well as "How can you just stand there when I hurt like this?" Harlan Howard-You're so Cold I'm Turning Blue

guess I'm feeling kinda lachrymose today Image

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" Too hot to fish, too hot for golf, and
too cold at home " Man what a line !
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Walked the floor so much wore out my shoes - "Invitation to the Blues"
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A certain chick "sanger" around here used to sing "Crawlin' the floor under you....."
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I like to boogie; I don't like to think
I smoke marijuana; I still like to drink
Lying on the men's room floor, staring up at the sink
Come on baby, get down and love me
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<i>Now I'm so hurt, and you're so unconcerned
(and our love's just another bridge to burn).

Don't worry, it won't be a loud party,
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"Stop rolling downhill like a snowball headed for Hell. Stand up for the Flag, and let's all ring the Liberty Bell. Let's make a Ford and a Chevy that'll still last 10 years like they should, because the best of the Free Life is still yet to come, and the good times ain't over for good."

-The Hag-

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Warm red wine, you know that place
where you take me sometimes
where my cares have wings
and fly right off my shoulders

Wine Take Me Away

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"A mangled mass of many mornfull moments". Hank Thompsons "Take a Look At This Lonely Heart of Mine".

There is also a line in the song that goes: "You leered at love then laughed and left it lying".
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My mestake. The title is Take a look at this Broken Hear of Mine.
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Post by Perry Hansen »

WOW. This a new compyuter and don't know how to spell yet. That's "mistake and Heart".
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"cleanest dirty shirt" from Sunday Morning Comin' Down.


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"Two broken heart's, lonely, lookin' like houses where nobody lives".

Thanks Mr. Miller
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" I gave her the ring, she gave me the finger, the finger that still lingers like a ring around my heart"
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Post by David Pennybaker »

More than a line - - the bridge from "Pray for Me" by Rob Crosby and Allen Shamblin -- Ty Herndon has it on his "Steam" CD.

You know each of us is broken
somewhere deep inside
And we're really not that different
if you strip away the pride
We've all got our struggles
the chains that we can't break
And you never know the difference
one simple prayer might make

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I'll have to get back to you on the best LINE of a song.

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My Ears Should Burn When Fools Are Talked About-Roger Miller

Walk Out Backwards(So it looks like your walking in)-Bill Anderson

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Post by John Knight »

I have a friend going through a rough divorce so this line jumped out at me, "she got the goldmine and I got the shaft"

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Post by Paul Graupp »

WHITE LILIES NEVER GROW ON STALKS OF CLOVER....

But we are being soaked with rain tonight here in Georgia so maybe:

I think it's raining all over the world....

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If you don't like Hank Williams, you can kiss my ass!
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"Help me Merle I'm breaking out in a Nashville Rash
It's looking like I'm fallin thru the cracks
I'm too country now for country just like Johnny Cash
Help me Merle I'm breaking out in a Nashville Rash" Dale Watson's Nashville Rash.
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With drums and rock and roll guitars mixed right up in your face
Why the HAG he wouldn't have a chance on todays radio
Since they committed MURDER down on Music Row
Why they even tell the Possum to pack up and go back home
There's been an awful MURDER down on music Row" George Strait and Alan Jackson
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My Mama used to whip me with a George Jones album
That's why I sing this way.
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Post by Herb Steiner »

"I'd like to see you, but I'm afraid I don't know wrong from right.

If I saw you, would I kiss you, or want to kill you on sight..."

Opportunity to Cry by Willie Nelson

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Post by Leigh Howell »

Here's something that just popped into my mind. "You have'nt left yet, but your already gone" I dont know if It's a song yet, but I like the line!!! Image

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"Should'a been me with that real fine chick" ---Commander Cody
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"I've seen the Grand Ole Opry and I've met Johnny Cash.
If that ain't country, you can kiss my a**."
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