Best Country Lyrics Ever?

[fightingquaker13]

I have to say I prefer the timing on Arlo's Version.
Could be because it's the one I'm used to.

The Highwaymens version don't suck either.
FQ13

[tombogan03884]

I clicked on that thinking " who are the "Highway men", ? another one of FQ's country /punk things ?    
OH        OK    

[Solus]

I'd pick Arlo Guthrie's City of New Orleans as the one I prefer also.

His tone just imparts melancholy feelings, like hearing the lonesome whistle late at night. ....

Used to travel to Chicago by train when I was young..  under 10.   Last trip when I was 16.   I remember how the ground would shake when it pulled into the station.  The sense of power they provoked was intense....half fear and half awe standing so close.

The swaying of the cars and the rhythm of the wheels clicking on the tracks. 

I remember Union Terminal in Cincinnati.  Sometimes several trains would be arriving or departing at the same time..awesome.  The place was busy, people everywhere.  The men's room had a line of 50 urinals...and there were two of them..one on each side of the terminal. 

It is an age past and only memories remain for me.  Arlo's version strums those memories of that lost era for me.

[jaybet]

You Never Even Call Me By My Name was actually written by Steve Goodman and John Prine. If you look around on the internet there's a recording of Goodman performing the song where he acknowleges Prine's contribution. Although Coe requested the addition of some subjects,"Momma, drinking, prison, trains, pickuptrucks, etc.) Coe also changed some other lyrics in his version. Nicely done, though.

[Fatman]

Come on, no one remembers these classic lines?

Drop Kick Me Jesus Through
The Goalposts Of Life

Song from Bobby Bare Greatest Hits, Bareworks Inc.
Words and music by Paul Craft.
CD, BWCD-040292

Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Make me, oh make me, Lord more than I am
Make me a piece in your master game plan
Free from the earthly tempestion below
I’ve got the will, Lord if you’ve got the toe.

Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Take all the brothers who’ve gone on before
And all of the sisters who’ve knocked on your door
All the departed dear loved ones of mine
Stick’em up front in the offensive line.

Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Yeah, Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

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[blackwolfe]

Sure wish I could find a copy of Bobby Bare's "The Winner and other Losers".

[TAB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqttbRlJUQ








 



Too the corner we all go.

[fightingquaker13]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIqttbRlJ

Too the corner we all go.

ROFLMAO! Truer words etc. God knows  how much money, time and drama would have been saved? Trouble is, these ain't the best country lyrics ever, because if they were, 1/2 the others would never have been written!
FQ13

[fightingquaker13]

Allright, I will end the suspense. THE BEST COUNTRY LYRICS EVER? Charlie Daniels' "Long Haired Country Boy". I've looked for this vid for a while and I finally found it. Lassiez Faire or else! You want country? This is is it, at least in this Libertarian's eyes.
peace
FQ13

[blackwolfe]

Will see Charlie Daniels tonight in about 14 hours.