Saddest country song

[DallasCowpoke]

Vern Gosdin - Chiseled In Stone


Steve Wariner - Leave Him Out Of This

 

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[Holden]

Whiskey Lullaby has to be a contender.

 

[MaceHorn]

He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones.

End of story.

 

[Hookem123]

Seven Spanish Angels............. Willie

However, if you've never heard He Stopped Loving Her Today played at a funeral, then you don't get a vote.

 

[accuratehorn]

Another contender:

SHE'S ACTING SINGLE, I'M DRINKING DOUBLES
Gary Stewart


I've seen men look at her before
And they think, I don't see them
I'd like to think it makes me proud
But, I'm only.. fooling me

I know she'll be lookin' back
The minute I'm not there
While she pours herself on some stranger
I pour myself a drink somewhere

She's acting single
I'm drinking double
I hide my pain
I drown my troubles

My heart is breaking
Like the tiny bubbles
She's acting single
I'm drinking doubles

I know all she plans to do
But I don't know where or when
If I ask who that stranger was
She'll just say, "an old friend"

I'm not weak, I tell myself
I stay because I'm strong
The truth is, I'm not man enough
To stop her from doing me wrong

She's acting single
I'm drinking doubles
I hide my pain
I drown my troubles

My heart is breaking
Like the tiny bubbles
She's acting single
I'm drinking doubles

She's acting single
I'm drinking doubles
I hide my pain
I drown my troubles

 

[socks]

Gary Stewart is very underrated and one of my favorites. Thanks for bringing him into this.

She's Acting Single(I'm Drinking Double) -The Link


"If I wait at home, I'll only ask her questions
She'd probably tell the truth, so I don't even ask "

Drinking Thing -The Link

 

[socks]

A few from Merle:

If We Make It Through December -The Link

Silver Wings -The Link

Sing Me Back Home -The Link

 

[socks]

Johnny Cash - Hurt The Link

His last song.

 

[Unques prist]

"That's My Job" by Conway Twitty.

Close thread.

 

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[scottsins]

really?

no one has said "don't take the girl" by McGraw.

i do not like him or that song, but it is the saddest song I have heard.

 

[UT_Bandalero]

Its funny before I even clicked on the link I thought George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and there it was about 10 times.

 

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[JonathanMardukas]

Hurt isn't a Johnny Cash song though. It's a Nine Inch Nails song. Do covers count?

How about these:

Earl Thomas Conley - Holding Her and Loving You
Garth Brooks - What She's Doing Now
Brooks & Dunn - She Used To Be Mine
Alan Jackson - Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning
George Strait - You Look So Good In Love
George Strait - Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her
George Strait - I Hate Everything
Blaine Larson - How Do You Get That Lonely

 

[Third Coast]

Reznor's "Hurt" is good, but Cash's version is greatness. The same can be said for the Cash cover of Springsteen's "Further On Up The Road". In my humble opinion of course.

 

[TexasTower]

Another cover... Dwight Yoakam's version of "Two Doors Down"

 

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[socks]

I don't see why covers shouldn't count.

One I forgot to mention.

Jerry Lee Lewis - She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye The Link

 

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[RabidLonghorn]

I can still make Cheyanne-George Strait.

 

[Tank]

All These Years - Sawyer Brown

Simple Man - Lynard Skynard

Go Rest High on the Mountian - Vince Gill

Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) - Jim Croce

 

[time2go]

First ones that come to mind:

How Can I Help You Say Goodbye - Patty Loveless
Go Rest High On That Mountain - Vince Gill
Don't Take The Girl - Tim McGraw

 

[ousuxndallas]

"Teddy Bear" by Gene Watson is hard to beat as the saddest.

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" is top 5, no doubt. As is Conway Twitty's "That's My Job".

How about "Good ol' Boys Like Me" by Don Williams? Damn good song.

Others:
- "Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphy.
- "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" by Steve Wariner
- "Traveling Soldier" by Bruce Robison
- "My Brother and Me" by Bruce Robison

 

[Laphroaig10]

"Family Reserve" by Lyle Lovett.

 

[J.R.69]

In an earlier post, I called it "The Whippoorwill Song", but it's better known as "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry".

Sung by Hank Williams in waltz time, it's as sad as a train whistle after a funeral on a cold winter day.

""Hear the lonesome whippoorwill. He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low. I'm so lonesome I could cry."

 

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[Burnt Orange Bevo]

"If You're Reading This (I'm Already Home)" -- Tim McGraw
"All These Years" -- Sawyer Brown
"Go Rest High On That Mountain" -- Vince Gill
"Nothin' But The Wheel" -- Patty Loveless
"Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind" -- Confederate Railroad

 

[sandypoley]

George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today" gets my vote. But before that song came out, Bobby Goldboro's song "Honey" was a tear jerker. Of course, I may be one of very few people on this board old enough to remember that song.

 

[threesheets]

"Where've You Been" by Kathy Mattea will have every girl in the room bawling, every time.