BEST SONG LYRICS OF 2004?

[LisaMalia]

I'm not a fan of "new" country. When it comes to country music, I mostly like Hank, Patsy, and Ernie.....

[LisaMalia]

But my co-worker has a country station playing ad naseum, throughout the workday. This Tim McGraw song struck a cord with me, and thought I'd share the lyrics with you. Feel free to add your favorites!

Back When

Don't you remember
The fizz in a pepper
Peanuts in a bottle
At ten, two and four

A fried bologna sandwich
With mayo and tomato
Sittin' round the table
Don't happen much anymore

We got too complicated
It's all way over-rated
I like the old and out-dated
Way of life

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes

Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu

I miss back when...
I miss back when...
I miss back when.

I love my records
Black, shiny vinyl
Clicks and pops
And white noise
Man they sounded fine

I had my favorite stations
The ones that played 'em all
Country, soul and rock-and-roll
What happened to those times?

I'm readin' Street Slang For Dummies
Cause they put pop in my country
I want more for my money
The way it was back then

Give me a flat top for strumming
I want the whole world to be humming
Just keep it coming
The way it was back then

Back when a hoe was a hoe
Coke was a coke
And crack's what you were doing
When you were cracking jokes

Back when a screw was a screw
The wind was all that blew
And when you said I'm down with that
Well it meant you had the flu
I miss back when.

I miss back when

[RepublicanReptile]

If you heard that song the 9000 times it feels like I have heard it would have lost it's charm perhaps,LOL. Have you heard " Mayberry" by Rascle Flatts?( forgive my spelling)

[Dan from Michigan]

Since nothing of 2004 was good enough to mentiom, I'll fire off 2 from 2003.

"If they don't like it they can just.....get the HELL OUT!" - (Lynyrd Skynyrd - Red, White and Blue)
"I'm a redneck rock and roll son of Detroit" - Kid Rock.

That works. :)

[LisaMalia]

If you heard that song the 9000 times it feels like I have heard it would have lost it's charm perhaps,LOL.

I think I've heard it 9.000 plus, and I still like it! Maybe I'm being re-indoctrinated to country music?

My musical tastes are eclectic. Like I said, I love old country. However, some of this new stuff has reeled me in. Haven't heard "Mayberry", but I will check it out.

It's kind of refreshing, actually, to see country music going back to it's roots. For example, "Whiskey Lullaby" is akin to "He Stopped Loving Her Today".

[End Times Sentinel]

Of course, no discussion of song lyrics would be complete without the all time best song, Frankie Smith's sublime "Double Dutch Bus":

Give me a HO if you've got your funky bus fare... HO

There's a double dutch bus comin' down the street
Movin pretty fast
So kinda shuffle your feet
Get on the bus and pay your fare
And tell the driver that you're
Goin' to a Double Dutch Affair
Fe Fi Fo Fum
Well I'll be darn here it comes
The Double Dutch Bus is on the street
You'd better get off the curb
Move your feet

Bus fare trans-pass
That's the way my money lasts
Ain't got no car to get around
When I go to work I've gotta go downtown
Now I've missed my train
That's a darn shame
When I'm running late no sleep's to blame
If you've gotta wife you know I'm right
Gotta special man well I can understand
Uptown, downtown everybody's getting down
Say uptown say downtown
Well I've missed my bus I know I'm late
I've gotta do something I know I hate
I'm gonna walk to work fifteen blocks
I already got a hole in my socks
Go ahead and laugh that's okay
Cause what I really wanna say
I got bad feet my corns hurt
To top it off I'm lost for work
Let me tell you what I say
When I'm dealing with the funky sidewalk
Let me show you how to walk
When I gotta do my funky walk
Let me tell you what I say
When I'm dealing with the funky sidewalk
I say sssssssss-sugar

(Rep with children)

Bip, bomp, bam alakazam
But only when you're grooving
With the Double Dutch Man
Put on your skates don't forget your rope
Cause I know I'm gonna see you
At my Double Dutch Show
Rebecca, Lolita, Veshawn and Dawn
Everytime you do the Double Dutch you really turn it on '
Bilzarbra, Mitzery, Milzetty, Kilsan
Titzommy, Kitzerrance, Kilzommy that's my man
Come on get on my Double Dutch Bus
(The Double Dutch Bus)

Let me hear you say do that
(Do that)
Let me hear you say Do that again
(Do that again)
Let me hear you say do the do
Let me hear you say do the do the do
Do the do, do do do do do

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[Uncle Miltie]

Long Black Train: Josh Turner.

There's a long black train comin' down the line,
Feeding off the souls that are lost and cryin'.
Rails of sin, only evil remains.
Watch out, brother, for that long black train.

You can look to the heaven's, you can look to the sky.
You can find redemption staring back into your eyes.
There is protection and there's peace the same:
Burnin' your ticket for that long black train.

'Cause there's victory in the Lord, I say.
Victory in the Lord.
Cling to the Father and his Holy name,
And don't go ridin' on that long black train.

There's an engineer on that long black train,
Makin' you wonder if the ride is worth the pain.
He's just a-waitin' on your heart to say:
"Let me ride on that long black train."

But you know there's victory in the Lord, I say.
Victory in the Lord.
Cling to the Father and his Holy name,
And don't go ridin' on that long black train.

Well, I can hear the whistle from a mile away.
It sounds so good but I must stay away.
That train is a beauty makin' everybody stare,
But its only destination is the middle of nowhere.

But you know there's victory in the Lord, I say.
Victory in the Lord.
Cling to the Father and his Holy name,
And don't go ridin' on that long black train.

I said cling to the Father and his Holy name,
And don't go ridin' on that long black train.

Yeah, watch out brother for that long black train.
That devil's drivin' that long black train.

(Approved by the Jewish Cow-folk in the Cloven Clan.)

[Uncle Miltie]

Tim McGraw is a liberal. He has a pro-abortion song out there, among other lib clap-trap. Nice voice, fine instrumentation, beautiful wife. But I don't like his politics.

[MarMema]

I love that song.

[LisaMalia]

Tim McGraw is a liberal. He has a pro-abortion song out there, among other lib clap-trap. Nice voice, fine instrumentation, beautiful wife. But I don't like his politics.

Thanks for the info. My entertainment choices that I pay my hard earned money for are becoming fewer and further between by the minute. Thank goodness I haven't actually BOUGHT any of his stuff, I just listen to some of it...:)

[LisaMalia]

It's gotta a good beat maybe, but can you dance to it?

[GeronL]

Some Beach, somewhere....

[DixieOklahoma]

Heck, I'm 20 yrs old and i'm not a fan of new country, I haven't been since the early 90's. However I do like some of gretchen wilson's songs.

I like all of the old country, I don't really know who does like the new vinella country

[Marauder]

Big & Rich: "Why Does Everybody Want to Kick My Ass?"

[barker]

From Tim McGraws The Cowboy in Me. Love this song.
............
The urge to run, the restlessness
The heart of stone I sometimes get
The things I've done for foolish pride
The me that's never satisfied
The face that's in the mirror when I don't like what I see
I guess that's just the cowboy in me
............
As an aside I saw a bumper sticker today that said "Nevermind the Whales, Save the Cowboys"

[SoDak]

Stays in Mexico Every insurance man here named Steve has had to make it up to his wife.

[SoDak]

And...Montgomery Gentry...You go your way, I'll go mine

[SouthernFreebird]

Well, I walk into the room
Passing out hundred dollar bills
And it kills and it thrills like the horns on my Silverado grill
And I buy the bar a double round of crown
And everybody's getting down
An' this town ain't never gonna be the same.

[Chorus:]
Cause I saddle up my horse
and I ride into the city
I make a lot of noise
Cause the girls
They are so pretty
Riding up and down Broadway
on my old stud Leroy
And the girls say
Save a horse, ride a cowboy.
Everybody says
Save a horse, Ride a cowboy

Well I don't give a dang about nothing
I'm singing and Bling- Blanging
While the girls are drinking
Long necks down!
And I wouldn't trade ol' Leroy
or my Chevrolet for your Escalade
Or your freak parade
I'm the only John Wayne left in this town

And I saddle up my horse
and I ride into the city
I make a lot of noise
Cause the girls
They are so pretty
Riding up and down Broadway
on my old stud Leroy
And the girls say
Save a horse, ride a cowboy.
Everybody says
Save a horse, Ride a cowboy

[Spoken:]
I'm a thourough-bred
that's what she said
in the back of my truck bed
As I was gettin' buzzed on suds
Out on some back country road.
We where flying high
Fining, whine, having ourselves a big and rich time
And I was going, just about as far as she'd let me go.
But her evaluation
of my cowboy reputation
Had me begging for salvation
all night long
So I took her out giggin frogs
Introduced her to my old bird dog
And sang her every Wilie Nelson song I could think of

And we made love
And I saddled up my horse
and I ride into the city
I make a lot of noise
Cause the girls
They are so pretty
Riding up and down Broadway
on my old stud Leroy
And the girls say
Save a horse, ride a cowboy.
Everybody says
Save a horse, Ride a cowboy

What? What?
Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy
Everybody says
Save a Horse Ride a cowboy.

[SouthernFreebird]

Are you refering to this...I wouldn't exactly call it PRO-abortion.


I was twenty and she was eighteen,
we were just as wild as we were green, in the ways of the world
she picked me up in that red rag top,
we were free of the folks and hiding from the cops,
on a summer night runnin' all the red lights
we parked way out in a clearin'in a grove and the night
was hot as a coal burnin' stove,
we were cookin' the gas we were had to last

In the back of that red rag top
She said please don't stop

[Verse 2:]

Well the very first time her mother met me,
her green eyed girl was a mother to be for 2 weeks
I was out of a job and she was in school,
life was fast and the world was cruel
We were young and wild, we decided not to have a child
So we did what we did and we tried to forget
and we swore up and down there would be no regrets
in the morning light,
but on the way home that night

On the back of that red rag top
She said please don't stop..
lovin' me

[Verse 3:]
We took one more trip around the sun,
It was all make believe in the end,
No I can't say where she is today,
I can't remember who I was, back then
Well you do what you do and you pay for your sins,
and there's no such thing as what might've
been, that's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind
I was stopped at a red light just yesterday beside a young girl
in a cabriolet and her eyes
were green
I was in an old scene

I was back in that red rag top
On the day she stopped
Loving me
I was back in that red rag top
On the day she stopped
Loving me

[exnavychick]

I used to have bumper sticker that said that!

Mr. Ex looks great in Wranglers and a Stetson. :)]

[LisaMalia]

If that's the song, doesn't really sound pro-abortion to me either......

Sounds like they had alot of regrets and heartache for their decision. Have never heard that one before, I'll have to get it.