Brian Mansfield
Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 8
"Got me a pick-up, I got a piece of nothin' farm/Shotgun and a hound dog, I got a tractor in the barn/Rockin' chair on my front porch and a jug of home-made wine/When I ain't makin' music, that's how I spend my time"
--'Now That's Country,' Marty Stuart (1992)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 7
"She likes the way it's pulling while we're tilling up the land/She's even kind of crazy 'bout my farmer's tan"
--'She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy,' Kenny Chesney (1999)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 6
"I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison/And I went to pick her up in the rain/ But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck/She got run'd over by a damned old train"
'You Never Even Called Me By My Name,' David Allan Coe (1978)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 5
"Down by the river on a Friday night/A pyramid of cans in the pale moonlight/Talking 'bout cars and dreaming 'bout women/Never had a plan, just a-livin' for the minute"
--'Chattahoochee,' Alan Jackson (1993)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 4
"Well, you can see the neighbor's butt crack nailing on his shingles/And his woman's smokin' Pall Malls watching Laura Ingalls"
--'Hicktown,' Jason Aldean (2005)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 3
"Some people look down on me, but I don't give a rip/I'll stand barefooted in my own front yard with a baby on my hip"
--'Redneck Woman,' Gretchen Wilson (2004)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 2
"You can't starve us out and you can't make us run/'Cause one of them old boys raise old shotgun/And we say grace, and we say, 'Ma'am,' and if you ain't into that, we don't give a damn"
--'A Country Boy Can Survive,' Hank Williams Jr. (1982)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 1
"In the summer time, we didn't have shoes to wear, but in the winter time, we'd all get a brand new pair/From a mail-order catalog, money made from selling a hog/Daddy always managed to get the money from somewhere"
--'Coal Miner's Daughter,' Loretta Lynn (1970)
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Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 20
Loretta Lynn sings, "If you're lookin' at me, you're lookin' at country." And country music, more than most genres, likes to remind folks what they're lookin' at. If you're lookin' for the themes of country that span generations, look for pride, connection to the land and homespun wisdom...
Countriest Country Lyrics: No. 19
"I was sittin' there, sellin' turnips on a flatbed truck/Crunchin' on a pork rind when she pulled up/She had to be thinkin', 'This is where rednecks come from'"
--'Good Directions,' Billy Currington (2006)
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