Brian Mansfield
Best Cheating Songs: No. 19
'The Thunder Rolls' -- Garth Brooks (1991)
Wandering Words: "The thunder rolls and the lightning strikes/Another love grows cold on a sleepless night."
Bad weather's moving in, which is what the woman hopes is keeping her husband from driving home on a late night...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 18
'Whoever's in New England' -- Reba McEntire (1986)
Wandering Words: "You'll always have a place to go when whoever's in New England's through with you."
Reba's no dummy. She's got a pretty good idea the business her man has in Boston is of the personal variety...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 17
'Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town' -- Kenny Rogers (1969)
Wandering Words: "If I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground."
Ruby may be the most cold-hearted woman in country music -- not only cheating on a paralyzed war vet but also forcing him to watch as she prepares for her dates...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 16
'When I Think About Cheatin' -- Gretchen Wilson(2005)
Wandering Words: "When I think about cheatin', I just think about you leavin'."
Wilson may not have done the deed yet, but she's clearly thinking about it. She admits that strangers tempt her, and she let one guy buy her champagne and whisper in her ear before ditching him on the dance floor...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 15
'The Window Up Above' -- George Jones (1961)
Wandering Words: "I heard you whisper to him softly that our marriage was all wrong."
In the 'Rear Window' of country songs, the singer witnesses everything: the lovers' embrace, the ardent whispers...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 14
'Who's Cheatin' Who' -- Alan Jackson (1997)
Wandering Words: "Who's cheatin' who, who's being true, and who don't even care anymore?"
It's a regular Wisteria Lane in this song about gossip and curiosity, originally recorded by Charley McClain...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 13
'Carolyn' --Merle Haggard (1972)
Wandering Words: "I believe a man will do that sometimes out of spite, but, Carolyn, a man will do that always when he's treated bad at home."
Haggard broaches the subject of infidelity to his wife by saying he's "heard about a man" who sees other women to make him feel "warm...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 12
'Cheatin' --Sara Evans (2005)
Wandering Words: "You've done your sowing, now you can do the reaping/Maybe you should have thought about that when you were cheating"
Evans' first husband should've listened more closely to this song about a woman gloating over her philandering man's subsequent misfortune...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 11
'Alibis' --Tracy Lawrence (1993)
Wandering Words: "Boy, you can bet if a move can be made she knows how to make it on you."
In this remorse-filled waltz, Lawrence comes to the realization that his wayward ways have taught his wife "every trick in the book...
Best Cheating Songs: No. 10
'Reasons I Cheat' -- Randy Travis (1986)
Wandering Words: "I'm getting older, my life's growing colder – just some of the reasons I cheat."
Travis unapologetically lays out the circumstances that led to a life of infidelity -- work stress, fading youth, an emotionally distant spouse...