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You're the reason our kids are ugly.................little darlin'

Conway and Loretta

 

Edit to add the last line of the song

Conway says to Loretta "All our kids took after your side of the family anyway"

Loretta replies "Oh yeah? What about the one that's bald"🤣

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The Living Years

Every generation
Blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door

I know that I'm a prisoner
To all my Father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

 

 Paul Carrick without the Mechanics.......... wonderful version I stumbled across a few years ago

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Sledgehammer said:

“Hey pretty baby are you ready for me, it’s your good rockin’ daddy down from Tennessee” - Guitar Town, Steve Earle

Great tune.

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I was brought up in a speed bump town, 'long Highway 92

fillin' station and a horse trader's inn, there never was very much to do...

Ghost Town  -  Jason Reed from Cumberland, Iowa (one of my best friends plays banjo and pedal steel with him)

 

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52 minutes ago, 1466IH said:

I’m stuck here in this prison called assisted livin’ ****

Brenn Hill-Shoot Me 

 

We have a 101 year old friend who's spent the last two years in solitary confinement.  Right down the hall from her best friend, who she couldn't visit.  She'd take the Winchester route but she can't.  This made my eyes leak.

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I was born in this valley
On this ranch I was raised

Corb Lund : S Lazy H

 

I have lived it ....... special song with a special meaning that hits home .

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“I put the good in front of bye ya’ll, put a hole in the drywall, put the pedal to the firewall, and I was gone” - Wanted  Me Gone, Josh Thompson

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Jesus has my heart, but whiskey's got my liver
Floatin' through life like a raft on a river
I know what's right and I know what's wrong
I know how to quit but now it's been too long
 

drinkin song

Jason Boland and the Stragglers 

that song has a lot of great lines

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58 minutes ago, 1256pickett said:

Jesus has my heart, but whiskey's got my liver
Floatin' through life like a raft on a river
I know what's right and I know what's wrong
I know how to quit but now it's been too long
 

drinkin song

Jason Boland and the Stragglers 

that song has a lot of great lines

I like those guys. Or at least a lot of their older stuff. Saw them once at an outdoor venue probably 12-13 years ago. Talked to Jason for a second after the show and shook his hand. Seemed like a normal guy. They came with several bands to a fairgrounds about 1.5hrs north of me at Altamont IL. Pat Green and Luke Bryan were there. That was before people knew who Luke Bryan was and all he played was bro-country. Pat Green put on a killer show. 

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My eyes leak a little when I listen to this one.

As I rode in to Tombstone, on my horse his name was Mack

I saw what I'll relate to you goin' on behind my back

Mason Proffit - Two Hangmen

 

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“Well I figure I’ll buy me a motorcycle, wrap her pretty little frame around a telephone pole, ride her off a mountain like old Arlo, figure I’ll buy me a motorcycle” - Motorcycle, Colter Wall

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On 3/11/2022 at 7:09 PM, 1256pickett said:

Last night as I was out a ridin’
graveyard shift, midnight ‘till dawn
the moon was as bright as a readin’ light
for a letter from an old friend back home

Chorus:
He asked me why do you ride for your money
Why do you rope for short pay
You ain’t getting’ nowhere
And you’re losin’ your share
Boy, you must have gone crazy out there
 

 

this song popped into my head reading another thread where @sandhiller and @mike newman were discussing “fly over country”. The first lines of the chorus is the great part. 

..one of the best of Garth's , Mr Pickett  :)....great lyrics.....

,,,as you well know...the boys on here that love those leaping, screaming pricks ......, DC and AC ..that kind of head banging garbage....don't know what good lyrics are..:angry:

Mike

 

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Sometimes the first line isn't enough.

 

Shot Down In Flames

 
Ooooh!
Wow!
One, Two!
Out on the town, looking for a woman
Gonna give me good love
Anybody want to hang out with me
I'm really burning up
She was standing alone over by the jukebox
Like she's something to sell
I said, Baby what's the going price
She told me to go to ****
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52 minutes ago, FarmerFixEmUp said:

Sometimes the first line isn't enough.

 

Shot Down In Flames

 
Ooooh!
Wow!
One, Two!
Out on the town, looking for a woman
Gonna give me good love
Anybody want to hang out with me
I'm really burning up
She was standing alone over by the jukebox
Like she's something to sell
I said, Baby what's the going price
She told me to go to ****

........gasp !!!

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42 minutes ago, mike newman said:

........gasp !!!

Oh Mike, I’m sure you’ll like this one better. Make sure you watch til the end (though I don’t recommend that you do so while sitting next to your Cook)

 

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44 minutes ago, ihrondiesel said:

Oh Mike, I’m sure you’ll like this one better. Make sure you watch til the end (though I don’t recommend that you do so while sitting next to your Cook)

 

Awee   Ron....you old tease  .....:blush:  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike 

..poor girl......looked like she needed to take a dump  ...way that butt was swingin'...bet she was glad when the ''wash up '' was finished.....Heard  the screeching.....:mellow:

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