Biggest Saddest TearJerkin' Country songs ever?

MIKEHOLLAND · Post by **MIKEHOLLAND** » 5 Dec 2004 3:20 pm

Lord I need somebody bad tonight. Jack Green.

Mike Weirauch · Post by **Mike Weirauch** » 5 Dec 2004 3:26 pm

"Teddy Bear" by Red Sovine

John Parker · Post by **John Parker** » 5 Dec 2004 3:27 pm

I remember when I was a kid my mom had a 45 of "A Dear John Letter" by Jean Sheppard And Ferlin Huskey. On the flip side was a song called "The Drunken Driver" by Ferlin Huskey. The song was about a drunk driver who ran over two children and it turned out that they were his own kids. If I remember correctly in the last line of the song one of the kids looked up at him as they laid dying on the side of the road and asked him, "Why, Daddy, Why?" The song would make my mom cry and she forbid me to play it when she was around. Don't know what ever happened to that old record but I've never been able to find a copy of that song.

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Rick McDuffie · Post by **Rick McDuffie** » 5 Dec 2004 5:36 pm

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Butch Foster · Post by **Butch Foster** » 5 Dec 2004 5:39 pm

Red Sovine- Faith in Santa
Vern Gosdin- Chiseled in Stone

Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 5 Dec 2004 6:10 pm

I second "Chiseled in Stone" but Connie Smith with "The Deepening Snow" and the new Alan Jackson song seem to touch the same nerve.Also Tammis' "Til I can Make it on my own".

James Morehead · Post by **James Morehead** » 5 Dec 2004 6:11 pm

John Parker: Ricky Skaggs included that song about the Drunken Driver on one of his Kentucky Thunder albums. I believe it was "The History of the Future" album. Yes, a serious tear jerker!

Hook Moore · Post by **Hook Moore** » 5 Dec 2004 6:32 pm

Jack, I have played with Jimmy Peppers too. He lived in my house a while. I always liked a song he sang called "hell stays open all night long"
Hook

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George Rozak · Post by **George Rozak** » 5 Dec 2004 7:22 pm

"Little Rosa" by Red Sovine

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Jack Francis · Post by **Jack Francis** » 5 Dec 2004 7:49 pm

HOOK
I'll have to check that one out.Thanx
Jack

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 6 Dec 2004 3:10 am

Hook, I'll ask Jimmy about that song. Knowing him and at times his "twisted mind" it sounds like a Peppers song.

We did another one "What If" (turned out to be a great tear jerker song) the ending hook was "what if you didn't love me anymore" but in between there's "what if the sun came up in the west" and "if the ships at sea never came back to shore".

We did another that he wrote "I never did Win Dixie" which is a play on the Win Dixie supermarket name, but is talking about trying to get a date with a check out clerk named Dixie.

The songs are (he hopes) making the rounds in Nashville right now. He sent several copies of the CD to Jimmy Capps, to circulate.

Added, I don't know about a Roger Miller song similar to Peppers' song, but there may be some crossed paths there as Jimmy and Roger were good friends back in the early days when neither had enough money to buy a beer at Tootsie's. [This message was edited by Jack Stoner on 06 December 2004 at 03:14 AM.]

Barbara Hennerman · Post by **Barbara Hennerman** » 6 Dec 2004 5:05 am

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Don Joslin · Post by **Don Joslin** » 6 Dec 2004 5:39 am

Whiskey Lullaby - Alison Krause & Brad Paisley

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Drew Howard · Post by **Drew Howard** » 6 Dec 2004 5:57 am

"Teddy Bear"

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Shaan Shirazi · Post by **Shaan Shirazi** » 6 Dec 2004 6:18 am

I've always liked these:

The Blizzard - Harlan Howard - that poor pony

When Daddy Lived In Houston - Johnny Bush

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Jody Cameron · Post by **Jody Cameron** » 6 Dec 2004 6:21 am

3 of my favorite sad ones: "Holding Things Together"; Motel Time Again"; "Knoxville Girl". JC

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 6 Dec 2004 8:50 am

"Ol' Shep"... especially for anyone that ever owned a Collie
Recent one... "How's the World Treating You?" James Taylor & Allison Krause (i think?) from the Livin'-Louvin'-Losin' CD of last year.

Dave Burr · Post by **Dave Burr** » 6 Dec 2004 9:45 am

A bunch of really sad songs listed here. I agree with Jody, you just can't beat Merle's "Holding Things Together".

Another good one is Alison Krauss' song "It Doesn't Matter"... That one will bring a tear to a glass eye.

I suppose if one thought long enough about it and went through their albums and CD's it would be really hard to settle on a top 10.

Respectfully,
Dave Burr

Steve Alcott · Post by **Steve Alcott** » 6 Dec 2004 10:06 am

"The Deepening Snow" on Dickey Overby's CD,sung by Johnny Bush

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 6 Dec 2004 11:08 am

Darryl Worley's song "I Miss My Friend" is definitely a tearjerker and Alan Jackson's latest single "Monday Morning Church" is definitely sad. The steel guitar really cries in those songs. Gary Allan's song "Tough Little Boys" is a sad song too. Brett, Emmons S-10, Morrell lapsteel, GFI D-10 Ultra

Bob Watson · Post by **Bob Watson** » 6 Dec 2004 11:23 am

The Green Green Grass of Home

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 6 Dec 2004 11:53 am

"Farewell Party" - not a happy word to be found!

David Doggett · Post by **David Doggett** » 6 Dec 2004 12:33 pm

What, are y'all nuts?! ALL slow country songs are sad. It's like askin' which of W's cabinet members is the most Republican, or which of the Pope's Cardinals is the most Catholic, or which pedal steel player in Tennessee plays the twangiest. But as long as we're doing this - how about "Willy Roy the Cripple Boy" (Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper), or "A Picture from Life's Other Side'" (Blue Sky Boys), or "The Sweetest Gift" (Linda, Emmy Lou & Dolly), or "Rank Stranger" or "White Dove" (Stanley Bros.), or any slow song by George Jones...I don't know they're all running together. It's like asking which Eskimo has the coldest nose, or which dog smells the most like dog...

Jerry Warner · Post by **Jerry Warner** » 6 Dec 2004 1:34 pm

I'll go to church again with mama----Buck Owens

James Morehead · Post by **James Morehead** » 6 Dec 2004 2:29 pm

David Dogget, Of course we are all nuts, we play a machine called steel guitar, don't we? At least try to play it! HA!!