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Just for fun: What is the strangest/most bizarre country song?
Self | 6/3/'13 | Zionist Conspirator

Posted on 06/04/2013 6:14:10 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator

There are a lot of strange songs out there. But how many strange country songs are there? (By "country" I include "hillbilly," "western," "western swing," and "bluegrass," but not "folk" simply because there are oodles and oodles of bizarre folk songs). For the most part country is the sane, genre, the level-headed genre, the "plain folks" genre. But I've found a country song that is disturbing and bizarre, and I'm sure some of you have found others as well.

Many years ago on the old Porter Wagoner TV show I saw Porter perform a song he had written but wished he hadn't. He apologized for the strange song then introduced Speck Rhodes for his comedy segment, and Speck teased him unmercifully. It was a hoot.

Anyway, this Porter Wagoner song was The Rubber Room, and Porter (if I remember correctly) said he realized that the song could be disturbing to people who had loved ones who were institutionalized. That was the first and, until recently, the only time I had ever heard the song.

The other day I did a search for this song and found the original record on YouTube.

But apparently in later years he changed his mind about the song because I also found this video of Porter the year he died performing it live. He's almost 80 years old, and it's just him singing accompanied by nothing but two acoustic guitars (his and Marty Stuart's). This time (unlike the record) there are no electronic sound effects to augment the performance. It's so sparse I think it's more emotionally stirring than the original recording.

And oddly enough, I've found that there are several covers of the song by younger artists who weren't even around when I heard Porter sing the song on his TV show. Apparently it's considered shocking and "edgy."

Well . . . this is my candidate for weirdest/most bizarre country song. Does anyone else have one? (Again, folk songs don't count simply because so many of them are bizarre.)


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1 posted on 06/04/2013 6:14:10 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
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To: Zionist Conspirator

They ain’t making Jews like Jesus anymore... country song.


2 posted on 06/04/2013 6:16:18 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: epluribus_2

My wife left with my best friend and I miss him.


3 posted on 06/04/2013 6:16:57 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Well, Shooter Jennings has a song called Put The “O” Back in Country


4 posted on 06/04/2013 6:16:57 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: Zionist Conspirator

“The Bluebird of Happiness’ by Little jimmy Dickens...


5 posted on 06/04/2013 6:17:05 AM PDT by pgkdan (Some taglines never go away....)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road


6 posted on 06/04/2013 6:17:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (It is the deviants who are the bullies.)
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They ain’t making Jews like Jesus anymore... country song.

Kinky Friedman . . . right?

7 posted on 06/04/2013 6:18:07 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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That one where you play it backwards and get your dog back, your truck back, your house back, and your wife back.


8 posted on 06/04/2013 6:18:23 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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The Horseflies are a bluegrass band who do some off-the-wall songs. Here they are live playing Roadkill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7PDW9JoYQc


9 posted on 06/04/2013 6:18:28 AM PDT by dirtboy
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Almost a standard: ‘I am My Own Grandpa’


10 posted on 06/04/2013 6:18:35 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Just about anything by Jerry Reed - (Amos Moses, When You’re Hot You’re Hot....)


11 posted on 06/04/2013 6:19:14 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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That one where you play it backwards and get your dog back, your truck back, your house back, and your wife back.

Lol!

12 posted on 06/04/2013 6:20:13 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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Wrong title...”May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose.”


13 posted on 06/04/2013 6:20:32 AM PDT by pgkdan (Some taglines never go away....)
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I don’t know if this would be “Country” but ANYTHING Ray Stephens is HALARIOUS!


14 posted on 06/04/2013 6:22:02 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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Oh dirtboy - "Roadkill" is gold dude, GOLD!

(Don't blame me if I'm slingin' Bambi, I'm just a man tryin' to feed my family....)

15 posted on 06/04/2013 6:22:30 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
"I'll Be a Hero When I Strike" - Merle Haggard (sung from the POV of a disturbed assassin)

"Put Another Log on the Fire" - Tompall Glaser (bizarre, satirical feminist rant by Shel Silverstein)

16 posted on 06/04/2013 6:22:50 AM PDT by wideawake
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Sorry, forgot, the Gourds do an outlaw country version of Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice”


17 posted on 06/04/2013 6:23:52 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Zionist Conspirator

That’s such an uplifting song. I had never heard it before.


18 posted on 06/04/2013 6:25:28 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (President Obma; The Slumlord of the Rentseekers)
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I think its bizarre that Taylor Swift is considered country. note I like many of her songs but I don’T think she belongs in the country genre’.


19 posted on 06/04/2013 6:26:11 AM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goal Post of Life - Bobby Bare

Get your Tongue outa my mouth, I’m kissing you goodbye - Ray Stevens


20 posted on 06/04/2013 6:26:13 AM PDT by SAMWolf (Looking for my generations Lexington and Concord.)
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