Category Archives: Country Music

We’re Losing Them Fast

 

We’re Losing Them Fast

 

 

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When great country singers up to heaven do pass on,
Their music stays with us and they don’t seem to be gone.
So you might say they just fade away over the years,
As we continue to hear them with an occasional tear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Conway Twitty had an aneurism of the Aorta artery,
And left us at the age of 59 out on the road in 1993,
But starting in 2002 right on up to the present day,
We lost so many great country singers along our way.
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Honkytonking With Ray Price

 

Honkytonking With Ray Price

 

 

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Ray Price was singing Honky Tonk with lots of “Pride”
Back in the early 1950’s in the “City Lights” on his ride.
With an “Invitation to The Blues” for us all back then,
Perhaps thinking “You Done Me Wrong” what a sin.

 

 

 

 

(This is a honkytonk tall tale with a guy and a girl as stars,
Using a Ray Price song title on every line out in a bar.
As the couple talks back and forth as they dance there.
On that honkytonk hardwood floor pretending to care.)
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Raw Honky Tonk Songs

 

Raw Honky Tonk Songs

 

 

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There are several honkytonk artists that were very good,
Who didn’t make real big times like they really should,
Singing raw honkytonk songs that cut you to the bone,
Making you want to drink beer and two step along.

 

 

 

 

 

You may not have heard of these artists I do love,
Pouring their honkytonk hearts in their songs, a cut above,
That always put me in that old honkytonking mood,
So listen carefully to see if you are moved by them too.
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Carl Smith

 

Carl Smith

 

 

Good country music was Carl Smith’s “Trademark“.
He sang “Loose Talk“on Grand Ole Opry with lots of spark.
Where we often heard “Hey,Joe” so loud and clear,
With the crowd yelling “Go, Boy Go” as they did cheer.

 

 

 

 

 

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(I put one of Carl’s songs on every line of this poem,
As I tell what I remember about Carl as I’m a going.
This verse is just for information so it doesn’t count,
As I talk about a country star from my memory account.)
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