I generally despise country music, but if this is the same one I've heard (on non-country radio), it's one of my favorites.
If They String Me Up, I'll Never Live It Down
I prefer these classic phrases:
I Fall to Pieces, each time I see you again, ..how can I just be your friend, you want me to pretend we never met, You walk by and I fall to pieces.Harland Howard-Hank Cochran, '60
If you got leavin on your mind, hurt me now and get it over,..Don't leave me here waitin,..I may learn to love again,...If there's a new love in your heart,....Wayne Walker, '62
Heard that lonesome whistle ... drinkin fancy coffee and smokin big cigars, (sort of reminds me of Starbucks and Macanudos in San Francisco)Johnny Cash
I'd prefer some Po' Mans Roses over a Rich Man's Gold (Bob Hilliard, Milton Delugg, sung by Patsy Cline)pre-61
I dig 16 tons (of #9 coal), and whatta I get?..Another day older and deeper in debt! St Peter, don't call me cuz I can't go, I sold my soul to the company store...(actor from Green Acres,...Eddie Arnold p>I go on Walkin, after midnight, out in the moonlight, searchin for you,...Don Hecht, Alan Block sung by Patsy Cline, '61
Heartaches, my lovin you, meant only heartaches,..what does it matter how my heart breaks, I should be looking for somebody else, but my heartaches for you!..Al Hoffman, John Klenner
I've got your picture, that you gave to me, the only thing different, is I've got your picture, and she's(he's) got you. Hank Cochran-She's Got You, pre'61
Strange,...how you stopped lovin me, when she came along,....Mel Tillis, Fred Burch, pre '61
South of the Border down Mexico Way, a love ballad
I knew you've been foolin around on me just from the start, now take your ring and I'll take back my heart. And when you get tired with foolin around with a 2 or three then come back home and fool around with me.---Foolin Around, Harlan Howard, Buck Owens, '61
True Love, Cole Porter, '61
Imagine That, Justin Tubb, '62
Back In Baby's Arms, Bob Montgomery, '62
Crazy for feelin so lonely, ...for feelin so blue, Willie Nelson, pre '60.
7 Lonely days make one lonely week, 7 lonely nights makes one lonely me,..Earl & Aldin Shuman, Marshall Brown, '61
Your Cheatin Heart will make you weak,...Hank Williams, '62
Why Can't He be you,...Hank Cochran, '62
I've been ..So Wrong...that I could live without the love of you,... Carl Perkins, '62
I love you so much it hurts me, darlin that's why I'm so blue,..Floyd Tilman, '61
See the Pyramids, the marketplace in ol Algiers,,..just remember,..You Belong to Me, Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, Chilton Price, '62
Many of these classics were compiled in notebooks by live performers at small dance halls and repeated from act to act or on-call as an audience member would request a particular song they knew. Very few of these classical performers of CW wrote their own tunes, but performed much older tunes. The words were frequently written by one songwriter lyricist while the tune, and melody composed by the songwriter. Lots of the CW sounds the same because they have a basic arpeggio styled background theme in bass and tenor tunes emphasizing different keyed scales and migrating between keys in a fairly rote pattern. Variation was added by a periodic 4x4 synchopation or change in chord emphasis on the downbeat. This was the background band basic emphasis. The soloist would frequently focus on the melody, in rhythm and emphasis of pitch. An art not found in many of today's 'artists'.
"It ain't cheatin' because she reminds me of you."
"You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw"
One of my favorites: “Please Don’t Sell My Daddy No More Wine”.