OT - Most Iconic County Music Lines

[Nitwit]

Men and Mascara - They Both Run

Here’s a Quarter - Call Someone Who Cares

You Mean You Don’t Remember Cuttin Up Some Honkie With a Bone Handled Knife

If the Phone Doesn’t Ring You’ll Know It’s Me

Take this Job and Shove It

I was Drunk the Day My Mom Got Of Prison

Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts of Life

The Girls All Get Prettier at Closin Time

It’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

 

[Corner Room Breakfast]

Sleepin' Single In A Double Bed

 

[PSU87]

Men and Mascara - They Both Run

Here’s a Quarter - Call Someone Who Cares

You Mean You Don’t Remember Cuttin Up Some Honkie With a Bone Handled Knife

If the Phone Doesn’t Ring You’ll Know It’s Me

Take this Job and Shove It

I was Drunk the Day My Mom Got Of Prison

Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts of Life

The Girls All Get Prettier at Closin Time

It’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

"If the Phone Doesn’t Ring You’ll Know It’s Me"
Not to be nit picky...but I'm gonna be nit picky.

If you're quoting the Jimmy Buffett song, it appears in the song 2 ways:
If the phone doesn't ring its me
If the phone doesn't ring you'll know that it's me

Personally, I think the better line from that song is...
I've had good days and bad days and goin' half mad days.

 

[Connorpozlee]

But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die

 

[Got GSPs]

He stopped loving her today

if I told you that you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me

 

[Nohow]

They call me King Turd up here on S*** Mountain but if you want it you can have the crown.

 

[PSU12046]

You got to know when to hold 'em,
Know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away,
And know when to run.
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealing's done.

 

[BobPSU92]

The devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin’ for a soul to steal

 

[EricStratton-RushChairman]

"I was drunk, the day my mom, got out of prison..."

 

[PSU12046]

"I was drunk, the day my mom, got out of prison..."

 

[ps_1294]

Willy Nelson…….

“I woke up still not dead again today
The internet said I had passed away
If I died I wasn't dead to stay
And I woke up still not dead again today”

Tom T. Hall….”I like beer”!

 

[NittPicker]

I turned out to be, the only hell my mama ever raised.

 

[BobPSU92]

Wookin’ pa nub…

 

[Nitwit]

There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes.
Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose.

or another Prine lyric:

They don't know how lucky they are
They could have run into that tree
Got struck by a bolt of lightning
And raped by a minority

 

[Connorpozlee]

I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad so I had one more for dessert

 

[WanderingSpectator]

I'd Rather Have a Bottle in Front of Me Than a Frontal Lobotomy

 

[rudedude]

Hayes Carll: She Left Me for Jesus


She left me for Jesus
And that just ain't fair
She says, that he's perfect.
How could I compare
She says, I should find him
And I'll know peace at last
But if I ever find Jesus
I'm kickin' his ***

 

[91Joe95]

Don't tell my heart my achy breaky heart...

 

[91Joe95]

Oh, oh, oh, I wanna be free
Yeah, to feel the way I feel
Man! I feel like a woman!

 

[91Joe95]

Keep them doggies movin' rawhide!

 

[Tgar]

Hayes Carl fills his songs with imagery. Bad Liver and a Broken Heart captures the essence. Every line delivers.

 

[Tri-Power65]

'Cause I've got friends in low places
Where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away

 

[rudedude]

Lyle Lovett: She’s No Lady


She hates my mama
She hates my daddy too
She loves to tell me
She hates the things I do
She loves to lie beside me
Almost every night
She's no lady she's my wife

 

[WyomingLion]

Mamma tried to raise me better but her pleading I denied, that leaves only me to blame because Mamma tried. Merle

 

[Nittany1865Farmer]

"Silver Wings"

Silver wings shining in the sunlight
Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight
They're taking you away, leaving me lonely
Silver wings slowly fading out of sight

"Don't leave me," I cry
Don't take that airplane ride
But you locked me out of your mind
Left me standing here behind

 

[Nittany1865Farmer]

Can't beat Copperhead road for some good lyrics:

Now daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge
Bought it at an auction at the mason's lodge
Johnson county sheriff painted on the side
Shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
Well, him and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumblin' sound
Then the sheriff came around in the middle of the night
Heard mama cryin', knew something wasn't right
Headed out to Knoxville with the weekly load
You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road

 

[91Joe95]

I'm just a rhinestone cowboy.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

If a tear should fall if I should whisper her name
To some stranger I'm holdin' while we're dancin' to an old Buck Owens song
I know she won't mind, she won't even know
She'll be dancing with a memory crying teardrops of her own

 

[s1uggo72]

And all the federales say they could have had him any day. They only let him slip away, out of kindness, I suppose."

 

[Eric_M]

And take your cat and leave my sweater
'Cause we have nothing left to weather
In fact I'll feel a whole lot better
But you'll think of me, you'll think of me…

 

[Midnighter]

'I ain't as good as I once was - but I'm as good once - as I ever was...'

 

[JWB389]

I always liked....... Too hot to fish, too hot for golf, and too coooooold at home.

Mark Chestnut.

 

[Classof09]

When the sheriff arrived with his bathrobe on
The confrontation was a tense one
He shook his head and said Bubba boy
You was always a dense one
A reckless discharge of a gun
That's what the officers are claimin'
Bubba hollered out reckless hell
I hit just where I was aimin'

 

[Jim from Spicewood]

And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

 

[s1uggo72]

turns out Earl was a missing person, nobody missed at all.

 

[Mrdibbs]

I ain't got a dime but what I got is mine.
I'm not rich, but Lord I'm free.

 

[Mrdibbs]

Turn me loose, set me free.
Somewhere in the middle of Montana.
Give me all that I got coming to me.
Just keep your retirement and your so-called Social Security.
Big city, turn me loose and set me free.

 

[Player2BNamedL8r]

Just the good old boys
Never meanin no harm
Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born

Whiskey River take my mind,
Don’t let her memory torture me
Whiskey River don’t run dry,
You’re all I got, take care of me

Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
Don’t let ‘em pick guitars and drive them old trucks,
Let ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such

Our lives are better left to chance
I coulda missed the pain, but I’d of had to miss the dance

 

[s1uggo72]

'fore she was Mama
in a string Bikini, in TiJuan
wont admit she smoked marijuanna
But I saw mama, 'fore she was Mama

 

[91Joe95]

Hey good lookin, what ya got cookin?