CMT picks 100 greatest country music songs

Associated Press ^ | June 5, 2003 | Associated Press Staff

[weegee]

They omitted Kinky Friedman from this list too:

Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed
(Kinky Friedman)

You uppity women I don’t understand
Why you gotta go and try to act like a man,
But before you make your weekly visit to the shrink
You’d better occupy the kitchen, liberate the sink.
Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed
That’s what I to my baby said,
Women’s liberation is a-going to your head,
Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed.

Early every morning you’re out on the street
Passing out pamphlets to everyone you meet.
You gave up your Maiden Form for Lent
And now the front of your dress has an air scoop vent.

Every single brakeman that’s ever come along
Had a little woman always tellin’ him that he’s wrong.
Eve said to Adam, “Here’s an apple you horse”
And Delilah defoliated Samson’s moss.

Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed
That’s what I to my baby said,
Women’s liberation is a-going to your head,
Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed.

Mean-hearted harpies are breaking all the laws
Tearing up their girdles and a-burning up their bras,
Now the air is dirty and the sex is clean
And your coffee makes my hair turn green.

So damn emancipated in your mind and your body,
Gonna have to cancel all your lessons in karate.
If you can’t love a male chauvinist
You’d better cross me off your shopping list.

Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed
That’s what I to my baby said,
Women’s liberation is a-going to your head,
Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Damn. That's true. No Kinkster.
I just may have to play a Texas Jewboy CD now.

[Lawgvr1955]

This list is way off. Everyone knows that the ultimate country song is David Allen Cole's "You Never Even Called Me By My Name".

[Lawgvr1955]

Should be David Allan Coe. Sorry

[Gamecock]

Good Catch!

[donaldo]

I’m a little late here, but this qualifies, no? For what it’s worth any list of the greatest male C&W singers would have to have Hank Williams, George Jones, and Johnny Cash in the Top Five or it simply isn’t worthy of consideration. And any all-time greatest female list would have to have Patsy Cline as No. 1 (there’s simply no argument here), and Tammy Wynette in the Top Five. This song by Hank is the essence of C&W. What that man did in his short 29 years on earth makes me absolutely incredulous.

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

[donaldo]

The late, great George Jones. It just don’t get any better. Lamentation, looking back and finding oneself wanting, original sin, longing, yearning; whatever you want to call it, George tapped into our common humanity. What a void since his passing. Short of being Jesus Christ himself, there’s a bit of George in all of us. God, what a voice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQMI7TksYo0

Father and daughter:

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

George and Tammy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1ZhPEwQClc