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Bob Miano Member From: Bergenfield, N.J. (home of "some" country music)	posted 02 April 2000 06:50 AM profile How about it! What is your choice for the most "cry in your beer" country song? I'll vote for "DOWN TO SEEDS & STEMS AGAIN" by Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen. (Lost his dog, his wife left, the finance company repossessed his home........) Anybody have any others? ........ Bob
Andy Greatrix Member From: Edmonton Alberta	posted 02 April 2000 07:13 AM profile My answer would be a Dallas Frasier song called "The Girl I Almost Knew",sung by George Jones.As for losing your house, car,and job, that's just stuff.It doesn't compare to a broken heart. All the best,-Andy
road runner unregistered	posted 02 April 2000 07:35 AM carl smith,air mail to heaven. red foley old shep.eddie arnold,Mommy please stay home with me. ------------------ Don LaCourse Sr.
Janice Brooks Moderator From: Pleasant Gap Pa	posted 02 April 2000 08:00 AM profile Kitty Wells "How far is Heaven" ------------------ Janice "Busgal" Brooks ICQ 44729047 [This message was edited by Janice Brooks on 02 April 2000 at 06:14 PM.]
Joe Casey Member From: Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)	posted 02 April 2000 09:10 AM profile Justin Tubbs "as long as there's a Sunday" Red Sovine's "Teddy Bear"..and there were some pitiful ones like the stuff out now.
Earnest Bovine Member From: Los Angeles CA USA	posted 02 April 2000 10:25 AM profile I'm not much of a singer, but I can get thru "Giddy Up Go" which tears 'em up. The other song I sing is "Down To Seeds And Stems Again" so I guess I am a really sad case.
Anne Marie O Keeffe Member From: Co.Waterford,Ireland.	posted 02 April 2000 10:56 AM profile I know I could come up with a few if I thought about it for a while but the first one to mind is "He Stopped Loving Her Today".
Billy Johnson Member From: Nashville, Tn, USA	posted 02 April 2000 11:06 AM profile "Mom & Dads Waltz" by Lefty,especially when yours have passed on.
erik Member From:	posted 02 April 2000 11:06 AM profile Avoid sharp objects when listening to Single Again by Gary Stewart. Not only sad but very dark. These Days (I Barely Get By) by George Jones... or The Door.
George Rozak Member From: Braidwood, Illinois USA	posted 02 April 2000 11:39 AM profile "Little Rosa" by Red Sovine, "Raggedy Ann" bu Little Jimmey Dickens, & of course "Old Shep" by Red Foley.
Dave Van Allen Member From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth	posted 02 April 2000 11:58 AM profile "Chiseled in Stone" Vern Gosdin is a qualifier!
Rich Paton Member From: Santa Maria, CA.,	posted 02 April 2000 12:18 PM profile Dave, when I read this topic title, "Chisled in Stone" had just ended playing on the CD deck. I figured my response would be a no-brainer, so it was weird when I saw your answer! The first time I heard that song and the words hit home, the effect was like taking a hard, fast medicine ball right in the gut. I would definitely have to second you on the choice. "Got The Down To Seeds & Stems Again Blues" is a campy, (but delightful), tongue-in-cheek parody of "The Real Thing"! It's a real hoot. "I saw your other man today; he was wearing my brand-new shoes".... [This message was edited by Rich Paton on 02 April 2000 at 01:01 PM.]
Rich Paton Member From: Santa Maria, CA.,	posted 02 April 2000 12:59 PM profile And here's a weird one...while married, back in 1977, I drove home shortly after work. All the furniture was gone, and a note was on the mantle... So, after the initial surprise dissipated a bit, I grabbed my stash of Columbian Red and headed for my buddy's place where we had often spent a lot of time drinking Busch Bavarian and listening to great music. So, I'm sitting stoned stupid on the couch, and the very first thing he puts on the stereo was a brand new Neil Young album, which started on a tear-jerker country tune I hadn't heard. I wound up loving that song, have played it lots of times in bars and dives, and even talked my brother into playing the fiddle again because of it. Now he's nearly a virtuoso fiddler. So...the very first music I heard as a freshly emancipated, 26 year old single man was... "They were playin' that Old Country Waltz, In this empty bar, echoin' off the wall. When I first got the bad news, that you set me free... The band played the Old Country Waltz, to me" Great fiddle and PSG (Ben Keith) on the tune. And with that, the Albatross winged her way briskly into the setting sun...... How could one not dig such a tune, when it fits you so perfectly? BTW, I ceased imbibing herbs in 1979.
Kenny Dail Member From: Kinston, N.C. 28504	posted 02 April 2000 01:26 PM profile Its hard to pick just one fav. I always got a lump when I hear Melba Montgomery do "Paid In Full". ------------------ kd...and the beat goes on...
pix1 Member From: WESCOSVILLE,PA,U.S.A.	posted 02 April 2000 02:10 PM profile MAMA HATED DIESELS. COMMANDER CODY AND THE LOST PLANET AIRMEN ROBBIE
Andy Greatrix Member From: Edmonton Alberta	posted 02 April 2000 02:14 PM profile Also, how about "If You're Gonna do Me wrong, Do it Right". Vern Gosden can hurt you big time, when he wants to. All the best,-Andy
frank rogers Member From: usa	posted 02 April 2000 03:50 PM profile "Window up above" by the "Possum".
Jake Doell Member From: Vancouver,B.C.Canada	posted 02 April 2000 03:58 PM profile How about the Last Letter.A suicide note if I ever heard one. Jake Doell
Joe Allwood Member From: Chariton, IA 50049	posted 02 April 2000 04:11 PM profile For me, it's gotta be "These Days (I Barely Get By)" with "I'll Be Over You When the Grass Grows Over Me" as a close second, both by George Jones.
Fred Martin Member From: Flagstaff, Arizona,USA	posted 02 April 2000 04:18 PM profile Long Black Limosine or Too Many Rivers.
Dave Robbins Member From: Nashville, Tnn. USA	posted 02 April 2000 05:20 PM profile Last Letter by Jack Green!!!!!!! Man, that song tells it all. If it don't make you cry or want to do the gun or rope thing nothing will!Jack sounds like he's ready to breakdown any time on that cut.
Ken Lang Member From: Simi Valley, Ca	posted 02 April 2000 06:10 PM profile Not sure it's been written yet, but it will probably have Fischer and the Grand Ole Opry somewhere in the lyrics.
Stephen Gregory Member From:	posted 02 April 2000 06:12 PM profile Psycho by Jack Kittel, sad and scary!
Tommy Mark Member From: Port Perry Ont, Can.	posted 02 April 2000 06:43 PM profile How bout Mel Street I Met A Freind of Yours today- recently covered by Geo. Strait. Another one is Cold Hard Facts of Life by Porter Wagner....And I Dreamed About Mama Last Nite. Hank SR. There`s so many... Tom
Richard Sinkler Member From: Fremont, California	posted 02 April 2000 06:45 PM profile There are so many. I will have to go with "Chisled in Stone" also. When that album was released, the rate of suicides off the Golden Gate Bridge quadrupled. I was there ready to jump many times myself. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and "Gitty Up Go" are tied for second. D@mn, where's my cyanide. ------------------ Carter D10 8p/10k Richard Sinkler BS, www.sinkler.com
Graham Member From: Whitby, Ontario, Canada	posted 02 April 2000 06:49 PM profile "I never thought he'd make it, but he finally left the city. Now he's got that special little place to call his own. Today I took a ride out in the country just to see him, --It wasn't hard to find because his name was on the stone!" Place In The Country--George Jones. ------------------ Rebel™ ICQ 614585
Randy Gipson Member From: Poteau, ok.	posted 02 April 2000 07:17 PM profile Mary by Bob Wills, "I can still feel her hand in mine as I sit alone tonight dreaming bout those hours I spent with Mary
John Steele Member From: Renfrew, Ontario, Canada	posted 02 April 2000 08:38 PM profile "The Grand Tour", by George Jones, the King of Broken Hearts... -John
Lem Smith Member From: Fulton, MS. U.S.A.	posted 02 April 2000 09:00 PM profile "Roses for Mama" by C.W. McCall is one that I always thought was very sad...also, "Sing me back home" by Merle H. was also quite a sad song. The "Hag" also did another one called "I wonder if they ever think of me" about a P.O.W. that was a very sad song for sure!!! Lem
Leonard G. Robertson Member From: Sparta, Mo. USA	posted 02 April 2000 09:18 PM profile Hank Williams= I'm Nobody's Child and George Jones= Blue Must Be The Color Of The Blues (the last song I heard my sister sing).
Boomer Member From: Brentwood, TN USA	posted 02 April 2000 09:49 PM profile "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" by Shania Twain simply because of the sad, sad light it, and songs like it, casts on the shadow of what was once considered country music. Best, Boomer
Richard Bass Member From: Hendersonville, Tn	posted 02 April 2000 09:51 PM profile My choice is: The Last Letter, also Mickey Newberry's version of "She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye". These songs will bring a tear to a "glass eye"!! ------------------
Jake Doell Member From: Vancouver,B.C.Canada	posted 02 April 2000 11:26 PM profile And as I kneel by her grave Where the Blue Bonnets wave, I cried but my tears were too late. Vintage Hank Snow Jake Doell(damn but that's sad)
Dean Brown Member From: Grand Prairie, Tx.	posted 03 April 2000 05:23 AM profile My vote goes to Larry Gatlin's "Bitter They Are, Harder They Fall". The song still "tears" me up.
Kenny Dail Member From: Kinston, N.C. 28504	posted 03 April 2000 06:43 AM profile Just gotta mention Hank William's "Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw". ------------------ kd...and the beat goes on...
pix1 Member From: WESCOSVILLE,PA,U.S.A.	posted 03 April 2000 09:01 AM profile Boomer, I think that falls under Songs That Make You Wanna' Puke. robbie
BDBassett Member From: Rimrock AZ	posted 03 April 2000 11:18 AM profile My first thought was "Mama Hated Diesels" but I got to thinking about it and have always known that that was meant to be a parody of a sad country song...as good a song as it is. I gotta think it was meant as a joke. So...having said that, I cast my vote for the saddest country song for Larry Gatlin's "Penny Annie"
Dave Van Allen Member From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth	posted 03 April 2000 01:22 PM profile Yup- "Window up Above" surely qualifies as does "Today I Started Lovin' You Again" by Haggard "WHat a Fool I was to think I could get by With ONLY these FEW MILLION tears I've cried" yeah, Baby!!! oh yah-I almost forgot "Six Pall Bearers" (Charlie Walker?) an uptempo shuffle with the saddest damn lyrics-the juxtaposition is incredible: "...we are just servants, to do as God wills Maybe it's better but I can't understand how God can take the woman and leave the children and a man. Head bowed low (somethin' somethin' somethin') A mournful song as the hearse rolls on Down to the graveyard where the weeping willows weep Six Pall Bearers crying, and my Darlin' lays asleep" ouch!!!!!
Earl Erb Member From: Old Hickory Tenn	posted 03 April 2000 01:22 PM profile The Last Letter-Jack Green Long Black Limo-Glen Campbell By The Time I Get To Phoenix-Glen Campbell A House Of Gold-Hank Williams-arr.Kenny Rankin. These are a few of my favorite sad songs. Some of my favorite pitiful songs are:Anything by Garth Brooks.
Joe Casey Member From: Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)	posted 03 April 2000 01:41 PM profile He stopped loving her today. When the grass grows over me. but there is one song that always gets me country or not. "Amazing Grace" And if the "Pipes do it double tears.

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