Some days - every now and then - something comes along and throws life a curveball.

What's the (famous) country song that starts with the lyrics....

"Six foot six, he stood on the ground,
He weighed two hundred and forty five pound,
But I saw that giant of a man brought down,
To his knees by love"

I know the other one - "Young Girl", Gary Puckett.

"A Thing Called Love" by Johnny Cash.

(Ain't Google a wonderful thing....)

SBG:ok:

P.S. I hear my Mum play the record - honest!

...It's Been Lonesome In The Saddle Since The Horse Died...:}

And there was I thinking Country music was only about dead ( insert as applicable ) horses / dogs / people ----and train / plane and truck crashes / driving :rolleyes: :E ----you live and learn eh! :hmm:

Real country song titles:

All the Guys that Turn Me On Turn Me Down
At the Gas Station of Love, I Got the Self Service Pump
Billy Broke My Heart at Walgreens and I Cried All the Way to Sears
Bubba Shot The Jukebox
Bubba's Inconvenience Store
Can't Get Over You, So Why Don't You Get Under Me?
Come out of the Wheatfield Nellie, You're Going Against the Grain
Did I Shave my Legs for This?
Do You Love As Good As You Look?
Don't Chop Any Wood Mother, I'm Comin' in With a Load!
Don't Come Home a-Drinkin' With Lovin' on Yo-mind
Don't Give Me A Plastic Saddle 'Cuz I Want To Feel That Leather When I Ride
Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through The Goal Posts Of Life.)
Four on the Floor and a Fifth Under the Seat
Get Off the Table, Mabel (The Two Dollars is for the Beer)
Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed
Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye.
Git Up Off'n the Floor Hannah (a Bitter New Year's Eve)
Hate Every Bone In Your Body Except For Mine
Her Teeth Was Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure.
Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)
High Cost of Low Living
Hold On To Your Men..’Cause She's Single Again
How Can I Get Over You if You Won't Get Out from Under Me?
How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?
How Come Your Dog Don't Bite Nobody But Me?
I Don't Care if it Rains or Freezes 'Long as I Have My Plastic Jesus Sittin' on the Dashboard of my Car
I Don't Do Floors
I Don't Know What Came Over Me (When I Came All Over You)
I Don't Know Whether To Come Home Or Go Crazy
I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling.
I Don't Want Your Body If Your Heart's Not In It.
I Fell for Her, She Fell for Him, and He Fell for Me
I Fell In A Pile Of You And Got Love All Over Me.
I Flushed You From The Toilets Of My Heart.
I Gave Her the Ring, and She Gave Me the Finger
I Got In At 2 With A 10 And Woke Up At 10 With A 2.
I Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Bed Crying On My Pillow Over You.
I Got the Hungries for Your Love, and I'm Waitin In Your Welfare Line
I Got Through Everything But The Door
I Hate Every Bone In Your Body Except Mine.
I Just Bought A Car From The Guy That Stole My Girl, But The Car Don't Run So I Figure We Got An Even Deal.
I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You.
I Knew I'd Hit Rock Bottom When I Woke Up On Top Of You.
I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones
I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well.
I May Be Used, But Baby I Ain't Used Up
I Still Miss You, Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better.
I Wanna Whip Your Cow.
I Want a Beer as Cold as My Ex-Wife's Heart
I Wanted You To Leave Until You Left Me
I Was Looking Back to See If You Were Looking Back to See If I Was Looking Back to See if You Were Looking Back at Me
I Went Back to My Fourth Wife for the Third Time and Gave Her a Second Chance to Make a First Class Fool Out of Me
I Wish I Were A Lesbian
I Wish I Were A Woman (So I Could Go Out With A Guy Like Me)
I Wish I Were In Dixie Tonight, But She's Out Of Town.
I Would Have Wrote You A Letter, But I Couldn't Spell Yuck!
I Would Kiss You Through the Screendoor but It'd Strain Our Love
I Wouldn't Take You To A Dog Fight Even If I Thought You Could Win.
I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me Than A Frontal Lobotomy.
I'd Rather Hear A Fat Girl Fart Than A Pretty Boy Sing
I'd Rather Pass a Kidney Stone than Another Night With You
If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me, Her Memory Will.
If Fingerprints Showed Up On Skin, Wonder Whose I'd Find On You.
If I Ain't Got It, You Don't Need It.
If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You
If I Had It To Do All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
If I Had My Life to Live Over, I'd Live Over a Delicatessen
If I Had Shot You When I Wanted To, I'd Be Out By Now.
If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body, Would You Hold It Against Me?
If I'd Killed You When I Wanted To, I'd be Out of Jail By Now
If It's Got To Be Later, How 'Bout Later Tonight?
If She Hadn't Been So Good Lookin' I Might Have Seen the Train
If She Puts Lipstick On My Dipstick, I'll Fall In Love.
If the Devil Danced in Empty Pockets, He'd Have a Ball in Mine
If Whiskey Were A Woman, I'd Be Married For Sure.
If You Can't Be Good, Be Bad With Me
If You Can't Be Good, Son, Be Good At It
If You Can't Bite, Don't Growl.
If You Can't Feel It (It Ain't There).
If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead?
If You Want to Keep the Beer Real Cold, Put it Next to My Ex-Wife's Heart
If You Want Your Freedom PDQ, Divorce Me COD
If You’re Gonna Do Him Wrong Again, You Might As Well Do Him Wrong Again With Me!
If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong, Do It Right
I'll Get Over You As Soon As You Get Out From Under Him.
I'll Marry You Tomorrow, But Let's Honeymoon Tonight.
I'm Drinkin Christmas Dinner (All Alone This Year)
I'm Gettin' Gray From Being Blue.
I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home.
I'm Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of my Car and Drive Myself to Drink
I'm Havin' Daydreams About Night Things In The Middle Of The Afternoon.
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna be a Diamond Someday)
I'm Not Married But The Wife Is.
I'm Quittin' Wild Turkey Cold Turkey
I'm So Miserable Without You, It's Like Having You Here.
I'm The Only Hell Mama Ever Raised.
I'm Under The Table Over You
Is It Cold in Here, or Is it Just You?
It Ain't Easy Being Easy
It Ain't Love But It Ain't Bad.
It Don't Feel Like Sinnin' To Me.
It Only Takes One Bar (To Make A Prison)
It Takes Me All Night Long To Do What I Used To Do All Night Long.
It Took a Helluva Man to Take my Anne, but it Sure Didn't Take Him Long
It's Not the High Cost of Living, It's the Cost of Living High
I've Been Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart.
I've Been Roped And Throwed By Jesus In The Holy Ghost Corral
I've Got $5 And It's Saturday Night
I've Got a Cowboy In The Saddle, and Another One's Holding My Horse
I've Got Four On The Floor And A Fifth Under The Seat!
I've Got Red Eyes From Your White Lies And I'm Blue All The Time.
I've Got Tears In My Eyes From Lying On My Back In My Bed While I Cry Over You.
I've Got the Cob, If You've Got the Corn
I've Got The Hungries For Your Love And I'm Waiting In Your Welfare Line
I've Heard that Tear Stained Monologue You Do There by the Door Before You Go
Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills
Jesus Loves Me But He Can't Stand You
Jim, I Wore A Tie Today
Just Bought A Car From A Guy That Stole My Girl,
Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You
Last Night I Went to Bed with a "10" and Woke this Morning with a "2"
Lay Something On My Bed Besides A Blanket
Learning To Live Again Without You Is Killing Me.
Legendary Chicken Fairy
Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
Make Me Late For Work Today.
Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head).
May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose.
Meet Me In the Gravel Pit, Honey, Cuz I'm a Little Boulder There
Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy?
My Every Day Silver Is Plastic.
My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus.
My John Deere Was Breaking Your Field, While Your Dear John Was Breaking My Heart
My Lips Want to Stay (But My Heart Wants to Go)
My Phone Ain't Been Ringing, so I Guess it Wasn't You
My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him.
Nashville Rash
Ned Nostril (and his South Seas Paradise, Put Your Blues on Ice, Cheap at Twice the Price Band, Icky Icky Ucky Ucky)
No Way, Conway (I Ain't Gonna Twitty Tonight)
Occasional Wife
Oh, I've Got Hair Oil On My Ears And My Glasses Are Slipping Down, But Baby I Can See Through You
Oh, Lord! It's Hard To Be Humble When You're Perfect In Every Way.
Our Love is Illegal, Cause Our Names Ain't the Same
Out Of My Head And Back In My Bed.
Overlonely and Underkissed
Pardon Me, I've Been Pardoned
Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill.
Phantom Of The Opry
Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
Pick Me Up Or Let Me Down
Please Bypass This Heart.
Poultry Promenade
Queen Of My Double-Wide Trailer
Red Necks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer
Redneck Martians Stole My Baby
Refried Dreams
Run for the Roundhouse Nellie (He Can't Corner You There)
Saddle Up the Stove Ma, I'm Riding the Range Tonight
She Broke My Heart, I Broke Her Jaw
She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime
She Feels Like A New Man Tonight.
She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft.
She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger.
She Looks Good Through the Bottom of My Shot Glass
She Made Toothpicks Out Of The Timber Of My Heart
She Offered Her Honor, He Honored Her Offer, and All Through the Night It Was Honor and Offer
She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
She Walked Across My Heart Like It Was Texas
She's Actin' Single..... I'm Drinkin' Doubles
She's Got Freckles On Her, But She's Pretty.
She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues)
She's Out Doing What I'm Here Doing Without.
Slap 'Er Down Again Paw
Still Miss You Baby, But My Aim's Gettin' Better
Swing Wide Your Gate Of Love.
Tennis Must Be Your Racket 'Cause Love Means Nothin' To You.
Thank God And Greyhound She's Gone.
Thanks To The Cathouse, I'm In The Doghouse With You
The Alcohall of Fame
The Bridge Washed Out and I Can't Swim and My Baby's On the Other Side
The Last Word In Lonesome Is "Me".
The Man That Came Between Us (Was Me)
The Old Home Fill 'er Up and Keep On Truckin' Cafe"
The Pint Of No Return.
There Ain't Enough Room in my Fruit Of The Looms to Hold All My Lovin' For You
There Ain't No Waste In My Baby's Love Canal.
Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother
When the Lightning Struck the Coon Creek Party Line
When We Get Back To the Farm (That's When We Really Go To Town).
When You Wrapped My Lunch in a Road Map, I Knew You Meant Good-Bye
Who You Gonna Believe, Me Or Your Lying Eyes?
Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass?
Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out When I'm Dead And Gone?
Who's Makin' Time with the Time Keeper's Daughter, when the Time Keeper's Keepin' Time?
Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw
Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For?
Would Jesus Wear A Rolex On His Television Show?
Wouldn't Take Her To A Dog Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win
Yard Sale
You Ain't Much Fun Since I Quit Drinkin'
You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog ('s Leavins')
You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too.
You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd.
You Were Only A Splinter As I Slid Down The Bannister Of Life
You'd think my Bed was a Bus Stop, the Way You Come and Go
Your Negligee Has Turned To Flannel Nightgowns
Your Were Only A Splinter As I Slid Down The Banister Of Life.
You're a Hard Dog To Keep Under The Porch
You're Going To Ruin My Bad Reputation
You're Ruining My Bad Reputation.
You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly.

If you play country music backwards you get your house back, your wife back, your dog back, your truck back.........

Or Billy Connoly's recipe for a country music song: You need death and plenty of it, relations, deformities, religion etc. He suggested a song title called "My granny died in a grotto at Lourdes because a hunchback pushed her in!"

You Never Even Called Me By My Name

Written By Steve Goodman
As Recorded By David Allan Coe

Well, it was all that I could do to keep from cryin'
Sometimes it seems so useless to remain
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even call me by my name

You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard...anymore
Even though you're on my fightin' side


Chorus:
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
'Cause I never minded standin' in the rain
You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'
You never even called me by my name

Well I've seen my name a few times in your phone book
And I've seen it on the signs where I've played
But the only time I know I'll hear "David Allen Coe"
Is when Jesus has his final judgement day


Chorus:
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
'Cause I never minded standin' in the rain
You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'
You never even called me by my name


Well I was drunk the day my Mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got runned over by a damned old train


Chorus:
So I'll hang around just as long as you will let me
'Cause I never minded standing in the rain
You don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
But you never even call me...
I wonder why you don't call me...
Why don't you even call me by my name?
-------------------------

SBG - thanks for that.

I could sing/hum/whistle all the words, but couldn't remember the correct name of the song.

I tried google - entered both "lyrics" and "song lyrics" in the serach bar, but was only ever presented with sites that asked you for the artist name and/or the title of the song. Never found a 'reverse lookup' where I could enter the lyrics and get the title/artist.

The name Johnny Cash was whirling in my mind - but I somehow convinced myself that it was too easy and, by default, couldn't be the right answer - and I'd convinced myself so well that I didn't even try it. I knew of the responses one could get from Google as I've often seen the real music quiz solved that way.

Could do with a link to the 'reverse lookup' as I still need to track down the traditional "Black Velvet Band" (which includes the lines "Her eyes, they shined like diamonds. I thought her the Queen of the land. And her hair hung over her shoulders, tied up with a black velvet band") and the song with the chorus "To know, know, know her, is to love, love, love her - and I do, and I do, and I do, and I do, and I do".

She's half my age, half my size, has twice my bank balance - how does this happen?

Sigh.

Great Songwriter Steve Goodman. He wrote 'The City of New Orleans" and for an aviation Link "My Old Man"

Here you are Keylink:

Her eyes they shone like the diamonds
You'd think she was queen of the land
And her hair hung over her shoulder
Tied up with a black velvet band.

In a neat little town they call Belfast
Apprenticed to trade I was bound
And many an hour's sweet happiness
I spent in that neat little town.
Till bad misfortune came o'er me
That caused me to stray from the land
Far away from my friends and relations
To follow the black velvet band.

Well, I was out strolling one evening
Not meaning to go very far
When I met with a pretty young damsel
Who was selling her trade in the bar.
When a watch she took from a customer
And slipped it right into my hand
Then the Watch came and put me in prison
Bad luck to the black velvet band.

Next morning before judge and jury
For a trial I had to appear
And the judge, he said, "You young fellows...
The case against you is quite clear
And seven long years is your sentence
You're going to Van Dieman's Land
Far away from your friends and relations
To follow the black velvet band."

So come all you jolly young fellows
I'd have you take warning by me
Whenever you're out on the liquor, me lads,
Beware of the pretty colleen.
She'll fill you with whiskey and porter
Until you're not able to stand
And the very next thing that you'll know, me lads,
You're landed in Van Dieman's Land.

Keygrip, the other song you were looking for is To Know Him Is To Love Him (www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2089) by a group called The Teddy Bears. The song was written by Phil Spector, and was inspired by a line on his father's headstone.

Here's a cowboy song for ya.

Yippie-yi-ho, yippie-yi-hay,
I love to see them udders sway.
I want to be a cowpoke,
Just pokin' cows all day!!

C&W music is very formula based. You can't go wrong if you include trains, prisons, mothers, farms, God and pick-up trucks in the lyrics.

Since they took me mother off to prison,
Life down on the farm ain't been the same.
When they went and let her out' the jail-house,
She drove her goddam truck into a train.

I can't claim authorship of that. It was either Ronnie Browne or Roy Williamson of The Corries. :D

I'm eternally grateful to Keygrip for startiing this thread, because it allows me to confess a guilty secret that's been weighing me down for a couple of years now. Ane the beauty of it is that none of my fellow music fanciers will know, because they'd never follow a country music thread. Pigboat, do we understand each other? :}

I just LOVE a Johnny Cash song called I Hung My Head. His voice towards the end of his life was perhaps not what it had been, but if ever there were a song designed for weary, overcome by life angst, this is it, and I can't imagine anybody doing it better. If only he'd sung into the stream instead of into the sheen!

Ran into her today in the mall. Melt (and it was minus 5 C outside).

Anyway - for any other country music hideaways (who won't actually admit to liking it) who have fallen in love/lust, try "For Baby, For Bobbie" by John denver.

Of course, the all time (country?) classic love song has to be the other John denver track, "Annies song" (which was actually written on a ski lift when he saw the shimmering white snow and the crystal blue Montana sky - it was the sound of a skier shwooshing by that got his nerves tingling to the point where he wrote "You fil up my senses, like a night in the forest").

Which reminds me of my all-time favourite radio announcement, from some rock-jock outfit;

"Good news for fans of popular music, John Denver is still dead"

:}

I turned the local country music station on a while back and was amazed to hear a song that went:

'It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long.'

Generally not a country fan, but that one made me laugh for a good while.

Aotw the song title is "It's Hard To Kiss Your Lips At Night" by the Cherry Bombs.

My favourite line in it is
If a tree fell in the forest and she didn't hear it,
Would I still be wrong? :D

No problem, Keygrip - glad to help.

I haven't found a reverse lookup for lyrics but I use the exact expression option in Google. Type in "six foot six" (including speech marks) followed by the word lyric and take a look at the results...hey presto, up it comes. It works best if the exact expression is an unusual one as that will cut down the number of possible results.

Cheers

SBG

P.S. Sorry I can't help with the other problem though! Good luck....

My favourite at the moment is "Do You Want Fries With That?" by Tim McGraw:

I thought that was your voice
I thought that was my car
Now we ain't ever met before
But I know who you are
You're living in my house
And I'm living in a tent
And don't laugh, this second job of mine
Is paying both our rents
You're out here buying Happy Meals
And I'm eating rice and pintos
You so much as crack a smile at me, man
I'll come through this here window

Well you took my wife
And you took my kids
And you took that life
That I used to live
My pride, the pool, the boat, my tools, my dreams, the dog, the cat
Yeah I think that's just about everything
Oh I almost forgot
Do you want fries with that?

Your ketchup's in the bag
And a check is in the mail
I hope your chicken's raw inside
And I hope your bun is stale
I'm supposed to tell you
"Please come back"
But how bout this instead?
I hope you both choke on a pickle
Man, that would tickle me to death
I don't know what you're waiting on
You're holding up the line
Oh man, you ain't got no change coming back
Are you out of your mind?

Well you took my wife
And you took my kids
And you took that life
That I used to live
My pride, the pool, the boat, my tools, my dreams, the dog, the cat
Yeah I think that's all there is
Do you want fries with that?

Well you took my wife
And you took my kids
And you stole that life
That I used to live
My pride, the pool, the boat, my tools, my dreams, the dog, the cat
Yeah I think that about covers it
Do you want fries with that?

This is one of my favorites by a largely unknown country band who were friends of mine back in the early 90's

Too Much (Pirates of the Mississippi)

Too much workin'll make your back break too much trouble'll bring you heartache
Too much gravy'll make you fat too much rain'll ruin your hat
Too much coffee'll raise your heart-tick too much road'll make you homesick
Too much money'll make you lazy and too much whiskey'll drive you crazy

Too much just ain't enough too much ain't enough
Baby you're the only thing I do too much of ain't enough

Too much hot rod get you a ticket too much dog'll make you kick it
Too much hidin' out'll find ya too much you know what'll blind ya
Too much wristwatch make you hurry too much waitin' make you worry
Too much smokin'll give you cancer too much cocaine ain't the answer

Too much just ain't enough...

Now too much walkin' wear your shoes out too much juice'll blow your fuse out
Too much Mexican food'll fill ya and too much honky tonk'll kill ya
Too much chip bruise your shoulder too much birthday make you older
Too much map always lost me and too much fun always cost me

Too much just ain't enough...
Too much just ain't enough...
Baby you're the only thing I do too much of ain't enough....

What about the song where the cows fight back? "cows with guns"...

Anyone go the lyrics to this?

Thanks pigboat, your knowledge of things musical is an inspiration to us all.:ok:

Was given a CD the other day by the Austin Lounge Lizards & The tractors, hard core country but very funny stuff, anybody heard any of their stuff??

Jimmy Buffett is the best country artist - I guess you'd call him country? sort of country carribean I suppose......

Just been out for a drink with her. Sigh. Said goodbye as I go back to the House of the Mouse (Orlando) until April.

Roll on April. Many thanks to whoever invented e-mail.

Cue the sad and lonely country music songs (see - I can keep it topical).

Cows With Guns - Dana Lyons


Fat and docile, big and dumb
They look so stupid, they aren’t much fun
Cows aren’t fun

They eat to grow, grow to die
Die to be ate at the hamburger fry
Cows well done

Nobody thunk it, nobody knew
No one imagined the great cow guru
Cows are one

He hid in the forest, read books with great zeal
He loved Che Guevera, a revolutionary veal
Cow Tse Tsung

He spoke about justice, but nobody stirred
He felt like an outcast, alone in the herd
Cow doldrums

He mooed “We must fight. Escape or we’ll die.”
Cows gathered around, cause the steaks were so high
Bad cow pun

But then he was captured, stuffed into a crate
Loaded onto a truck, where he rode to his fate
Cows are bummed

He was a scrawny calf, who looked rather woozy
No one suspected he was packing an Uzi
Cows with guns

They came with a needle to stick in his thigh
He kicked for the groin, he pissed in their eye
Cow well hung

Knocked over a tractor and ran for the door
Six gallons of gas flowed out on the floor
Run cows run!

He picked up a bullhorn and jumped up on the hay
“We are free roving bovines, we run free today.”

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the buffalo, or die
Cows with guns

They crashed the gate in a great stampede
Tipped over a milk truck, torched all the feed
Cows have fun

Sixty police cars were piled in a heap
Covered in cow pies, covered up deep
Much cow dung

Black smoke rising, darkening the day
Twelve burning McDonalds, have it your way

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the buffalo, or die
Cows with guns

The President said “Enough is enough
These uppity cattle, its time to get tough”
Cow dung flung

The newspapers gloated, folks sighed with relief
Tomorrow at noon, they would all be ground beef
Cows on buns

The cows were surrounded, they waited and prayed
They mooed their last moos, they chewed their last hay
Cows out gunned

The order was given to turn cows to Whoppers
Enforced by the might of ten thousand coppers
But on the horizon surrounding the shoppers
Came the deafening roar of chickens in choppers

We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the buffalo, or die
Cows with guns