Biggest Saddest TearJerkin' Country songs ever?

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James Morehead Member From: Durant, Oklahoma, USA	posted 04 December 2004 11:28 PM profile How about Merle's "Wakeup", and Henson Cargil's "Silence on the line", also covered by Chris Ledeux? What are your favorites?
Walter Stettner Member From: Vienna, Austria	posted 05 December 2004 12:18 AM profile Porter & Dolly's "Jeannie's Afraid Of The Dark" - that's really sad! Kind Regards, Walter www.lloydgreentribute.com www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf ------------------ [This message was edited by Walter Stettner on 05 December 2004 at 12:18 AM.]
Graham Member From: Whitby, Ontario, Canada	posted 05 December 2004 03:14 AM profile Think I Would have to go with Hermann Lammers Meyer - They Stole My Steel Guitar. Don't get no sadder than that! ------------------ Rebel™ ICQ 614585 http://users.interlinks.net/rebel/steel/steel.html
Jack Stoner Sysop From: Inverness, Florida	posted 05 December 2004 03:27 AM profile I did a demo session for Jimmy Peppers (BMI) this summer. One of the songs is a "sad" one. "If I can't Be Your Number One". The hook in the song is "If I can't be your number one then number two on you". If you don't recognize the name, he was the drummer in the mid 60's for Ferlin Husky, with Terry Bethel on steel and Jimmy Capps on lead. He was George Jones' band manager in the late 60/70's area and was the producer on the last Mel Street album. He has about 130 songs listed on the BMI site and has had several hits including Jack Greene's "Love Takes Good Care Of Me", both Dottie West and Tammy Wynette recorded his "Forever Yours" and George Jones songs "Playing Possum" and "Tonight I Just Don't Give A Damn". Jimmy is semi-retired (musician's seem to never fully retire) and lives near me. Jimmy was our drummer when we toured with Tommy Cash two years ago.
Barbara Hennerman Member From: Rangely, CO, USA	posted 05 December 2004 03:53 AM profile * [This message was edited by Barbara Hennerman on 21 August 2006 at 01:41 AM.]
ROBERT MYERS Member From: HEDGESVILLE, W.VA. USA	posted 05 December 2004 04:46 AM profile How about "Raggedy Ann" or "Rose's for Momma" ------------------ Bob Myers Pedalmaster Classic 8&7 Sho-Bud super pro 8&6 Nashville 400 Digitech RP100
Myron Labelle unregistered	posted 05 December 2004 05:44 AM Joe Caseys Westside Mission home. "The sidewalks covered with old snow,melts early in the day. Just like that cold white cover,my life just melts away". Joe gave us one of his CDs and we love all his songs but one that we wear out is his singing/resitation song Westside Mission home.PS there is tons of great steel throughout the 12 song CD (Smiley Roberts) ------------------ Derby D-10 3+4 Les Paul Custom.
Pat Jenkins Member From: Abingdon, VA, USA	posted 05 December 2004 05:59 AM profile Ferlin Husky-Room For A Boy, Never Used Pat
Kevin Macneil Brown Member From: Montpelier, VT, USA	posted 05 December 2004 06:35 AM profile "The Last Letter", especially the way Jack Greene delivered it with the Texas Troubadours. That'd make granite shed a tear
Charles French Member From: Ms.	posted 05 December 2004 06:43 AM profile Soldiers Last Letter-E.T. I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling-Bill Monroe
Janice Brooks Moderator From: Pleasant Gap Pa	posted 05 December 2004 06:47 AM profile How Far is Heaven Kitty Wells ------------------ Janice "Busgal" Brooks ICQ 44729047
Tony Farr Member From: Madison, Tennessee, USA	posted 05 December 2004 07:53 AM profile Stonewall Jackson, "Daddy I'll Go Get The Tool Box, And You Can Fix Our Broken Home"
Dave Van Allen Member From: Doylestown, PA , US , Earth	posted 05 December 2004 08:20 AM profile Bob Gallion "Six Pall Bearers" "...Maybe it's better but I don't understand why God would take the woman and leave the children and a man... ...Down to the graveyard where the weeping willows weep Six pall bearers crying and my baby lies asleep"
Archie Nicol Member From: Ayrshire, Scotland	posted 05 December 2004 08:26 AM profile Every slow tune done by Jimmy Day.
Bill Miller Member From: Gaspé, Québec, Canada	posted 05 December 2004 09:22 AM profile 'Don't You Ever Get Tired of Hurting Me?' ---Ray Price/Willie Nelson { Buddy Emmons on steel}
Greg Simmons Member From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	posted 05 December 2004 10:27 AM profile Buddy Miller's "Garage Sale", on the Hightone Compiliation 'Points West - New Horizons In Country Music' He saw the sign "Garage Sale" in the better part of town, The crowd was thick and noisy, he took a look around. Everything was marked so low we could not believe our eyes, When our arms were full we asked the man, "figure up the price". "You two must be newlyweds", he said without a smile, And feeling strange I said we were, he studied us awhile. And in a voice that seemed to falter he said "Come over here with me", "Yeah, I'll show you some of our old things that you can have for free". "You can take the table, I don't eat the way I did before, And the king sized bed we barely used, I don't sleep much anymore. I've tried to sell these memories that bring me to despair, But someone would have to buy my mind we live forever there." We didn't know just what to do as he offered rugs and chairs, Until at last he said, "Take anything that you find anywhere. And take these remnants of a broken home and give them one that lasts, And while you collect your future, I'm disposing of my past." "You can take the table, I don't eat the way I did before, And the king sized bed we barely used, I don't sleep much anymore. I've tried to sell these memories that bring me to despair, But someone would have to buy my mind we live forever there. But someone would have to find my mind... we live...forever...there." [This message was edited by Greg Simmons on 06 December 2004 at 12:43 PM.]
Don LaCourse Member From: Spring Hill, FL, USA	posted 05 December 2004 10:33 AM profile Air mail to heaven, Carl Smith
Joey Ace Sysop From: Southern Ontario, Canada	posted 05 December 2004 10:38 AM profile "Mama Hated Diesels" - Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airman, Bobby Black on Steel
Colm Chomicky Member From: Prairie Village, Kansas, USA	posted 05 December 2004 10:52 AM profile I'll vote for "Mama hated Diesels" also.
Jim Smith Member From: Plano, TX, USA	posted 05 December 2004 11:11 AM profile Speaking of the Commander, how 'bout "Down to Seeds and Stems Again Blues"?
Jack Francis Member From: Mesa, Arizona, USA	posted 05 December 2004 11:19 AM profile "HE STOPPED LOVIN' HER TODAY" Ol' George get's my vote.
Ray Montee Member From: Portland, OR, USA	posted 05 December 2004 12:08 PM profile The saddest country song I've EVER heard just has to be: "I've Got Tears in my ears, From Lyin' on my back, in my bed while I cry over You"...... by Homer Haynes & Jethro Burns, et al.
James Cann Member From: Phoenix, AZ (heart still in Boston)	posted 05 December 2004 12:42 PM profile "Sandy Sends Her Best" - Waylon Jennings. This one's a real wrench! [This message was edited by James Cann on 07 December 2004 at 08:12 PM.]
Archie Nicol Member From: Ayrshire, Scotland	posted 05 December 2004 02:45 PM profile `Mama Hated Diesels`. Don't worry 'bout it, just a song somebody made up, no big deal. `Seeds And Stems`. Get those hankies and sponges at ready. Do you think they were not taking things too seriously?
Alvin Blaine Member From: Sandy Valley, Nevada, USA	posted 05 December 2004 03:01 PM profile quote: I did a demo session for Jimmy Peppers (BMI) this summer. One of the songs is a "sad" one. "If I can't Be Your Number One". The hook in the song is "If I can't be your number one then number two on you". Was this the old Roger Miller song that he did on his TV show back in the late 60's?
MIKEHOLLAND Member From: stegenevievemo.usa	posted 05 December 2004 03:20 PM profile Lord I need somebody bad tonight. Jack Green.
Mike Weirauch Member From: Harrisburg, Illinois**The Hub of the Universe	posted 05 December 2004 03:26 PM profile "Teddy Bear" by Red Sovine
John Parker Member From: Newark, Arkansas, USA	posted 05 December 2004 03:27 PM profile 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. ------------------ John Parker Zumsteel SD10 3x5 Peavey Session 400
Rick McDuffie Member From: Smithfield, North Carolina, USA	posted 05 December 2004 05:36 PM profile I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Butch Foster Member From: Pisgah, Alabama, USA	posted 05 December 2004 05:39 PM profile Red Sovine- Faith in Santa Vern Gosdin- Chiseled in Stone
Ben Lawson Member From: Somerset, N.J.	posted 05 December 2004 06:10 PM profile 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 Member From: Durant, Oklahoma, USA	posted 05 December 2004 06:11 PM profile 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 Member From: South Charleston,West Virginia	posted 05 December 2004 06:32 PM profile 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 ------------------ HookMoore.com Allen Moore
George Rozak Member From: Braidwood, Illinois USA	posted 05 December 2004 07:22 PM profile "Little Rosa" by Red Sovine ------------------ Sho-Bud: Professional & Fingertip
Jack Francis Member From: Mesa, Arizona, USA	posted 05 December 2004 07:49 PM profile HOOK I'll have to check that one out.Thanx Jack
Jack Stoner Sysop From: Inverness, Florida	posted 06 December 2004 03:10 AM profile 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 Member From: Rangely, CO, USA	posted 06 December 2004 05:05 AM profile * [This message was edited by Barbara Hennerman on 21 August 2006 at 01:42 AM.]
Don Joslin Member From: Trapped in Minnesota and longing for New Mexico	posted 06 December 2004 05:39 AM profile Whiskey Lullaby - Alison Krause & Brad Paisley ------------------ Country Music - (kun'tree myoo'zik) n. - Three chords and the --------- truth.
Drew Howard Member From: Mason, MI, U.S.A.	posted 06 December 2004 05:57 AM profile "Teddy Bear" ------------------ Fessenden D-10 8+8 / Magnatone S-8 (E13)
Shaan Shirazi Member From: Austin, TX, USA	posted 06 December 2004 06:18 AM profile I've always liked these: The Blizzard - Harlan Howard - that poor pony When Daddy Lived In Houston - Johnny Bush ------------------ The Pickin' Paniolo [This message was edited by Shaan Shirazi on 06 December 2004 at 06:18 AM.]

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