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i always wondered why the "& Western" got dropped from "Country & Western". Growing up in the northeast US, the only western music I knew were the recordings by Hollywood singing cowboys (Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, etc.) that I found in my parents' record collection. Fun stuff, and I don't know anyone who listens to it today.

 

For example:

 

https://archive.org/details/78_im-a-cow-poke-pokin-along_gene-autry-autry_gbia0010192b

 

and

 

https://archive.org/details/78_thereil-never-be-another-pecos-bill_roy-rogers-and-the-sons-of-the-pioneers-john_gbia0005655b

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Some great country and western song titles:

 

1 - Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through The Goalposts Of Life

2 - Get Your Biscuits In The Oven And Your Buns In The Bed

3 - Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth 'Cause I'm Kissing You Goodbye

4 - Her Teeth Were Stained, But Her Heart Was Pure

5 - How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?

6 - How Can You Believe Me When I Say I Love You When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life?

7 - I Been Roped And Thrown By Jesus In The Holy Ghost Corral

8 - I Changed Her Oil, She Changed My Life

9 - I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling

10 - I Fell In A Pile Of You And Got Love All Over Me

11 - I Flushed You From The Toilets Of My Heart.

12 - I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You

13 - I Wanna Whip Your Cow

14 - I Would Have Writ You A Letter, But I Couldn't Spell Yuck!

15 - I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dawg Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win

16 - I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me Than A Frontal Lobotomy

17 - I'm Just A Bug On The Windshield Of Life

18 - I'm The Only Hell Mama Ever Raised

19 - I've Been Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart

20 - I've Got The Hungries For Your Love And I'm Waiting In Your Welfare Line

21 - If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You

22 - If Love Were Oil, I'd Be A Quart Low

23 - If My Nose Were Full Of Nickels, I'd Blow It All On You

24 - If You Don't Leave Me Alone, I'll Go And Find Someone Else Who Will

25 - If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?

26 - Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head)

27 - My Every Day Silver Is Plastic

28 - My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus

29 - My John Deere Was Breaking Your Field, While Your Dear John Was Breaking My Heart

30 - My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him

31 - Oh, I've Got Hair Oil On My Ears And My Glasses Are Slipping Down, But Baby I Can See Through You

32 - Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill

33 - She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft

34 - She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger

35 - She Made Toothpicks Out Of The Timber Of My Heart

36 - She's Got Freckles On Her, But She's Pretty

37 - Thank God And Greyhound She's Gone

38 - They May Put Me In Prison, But They Can't Stop My Face From Breakin' Out

39 - Velcro Arms, Teflon Heart

40 - When You Leave Walk Out Backwards, So I'll Think You're Walking In

41 - You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too

42 - You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd

43 - You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat

44 - You Were Only A Splinter As I Slid Down The Bannister Of Life

45 - You're The Reason Our Baby's So Ugly

46 - I Married Her Just Because She Looks Like You

47 - My Tears Have Washed "I Love You" Off The Blackboard Of My Heart

48 - Don't Cry On My Shoulders 'Cause You're Rustin' My Spurs

49 - I Can't Love Your Body If Your Heart's Not In It

50 - I Wish I Were In Dixie Tonight, But She's Out Of Town

51 - I'll Get Over You As Soon As You Get Out From Under Him

52 - I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home

53 - I'm So Miserable Without You It's Like Having You Here

54 - If She Puts Lipstick On My Dipstick I'll Fall In Love

55 - It Takes Me All Night Long To Do What I Used To Do All Night Long

56 - Learning To Live Again Is Killing Me

57 - Please Bypass This Heart

58 - She's Out Doing What I'm Here Doing Without

59 - Do You Love As Good As You Look?

60 - I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You

61 - I'm The Only Hell Mama Ever Raised

62 - If You Don't Believe I Love You Just Ask My Wife

63 - Timber, I'm Falling in Love

64 - You're the First Time I Thought About Leaving

65 - Love Will Beat Your Brains Out

66 - Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart

67 - It Ain't Love but It Ain't Bad

68 - The Pint of No Return

69 - This Time I'm Gonna Beat You to the Truck

70 - Hell Stays Open All Night

71 - I'd Be Better Off in a Pine Box

72 - I've Got You on My Conscience But At Least You're Off My Back

73 - Bridge Washed Out, I Can't Swim and My Baby's on the Other Side

74 - The Worst You Ever Gave Me Was the Best I Ever Had

75 - She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye

76 - We Used to Just Kiss on the Lips But Now It's All Over

77 - If You Keep Checking Up on Me (I'm Checking Out on You)

78 - It Don't Hurt Half as Bad as Holding You Feels Good

79 - If Fingerprints Showed Up On Skin, Wonder Whose I'd Find On You

80 - She Feels Like A New Man Tonight

81 - The Last Word In Lonesome Is "me"

82 - When We Get Back To the Farm (That's When We Really Go To Town

83 - You Stuck My Heart In a Old Tin Can and Shot It Off a Log

84 - He's Been Drunk Since His Wife's Gone Punk

85 - I Bought the Boots That Just Walked Out On Me

86 - Ever Since I Said "I Do," There's a Lot of Things You Don't

87 - The Next Time You Throw That Fryin' Pan, My Face Ain't Gonna Be There

88 - I Don't Know Whether to Come Home or Go Crazy

89 - If You Can't Feel It (It Ain't There)

90 - Her Body Couldn't Keep You Off My Mind

91 - I Got In At 2 With A 10 And Woke Up At 10 With A 2

92 - I Hate Every Bone In Your Body Except Mine

93 - 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

94 - I Knew I'd Hit Rock Bottom When I Woke Up On Top Of You

95 - I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well

96 - I Meant Every Word That He Said

97 - I'm Not Married But The Wife Is

98 - If Whiskey Were A Woman I'd Be Married For Sure

99 - Out Of My Head And Back In My Bed

100 - Swing Wide Your Gate Of Love

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  • 1 month later...

In the early 80s I was a smartass kid working in the oil patch in North Dakota and Montana. One day on a job I wondered aloud why it was that no matter where you went you could always manage to tune in a radio station playing country music. An older fellow on the crew, Whitey (that was really his name), said well, I guess it's because that's what people like. Tough to argue with that. And now I like (some of) it too.

 

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