Guilty pleasures: Favorite redneck song?

[DoNotRefill]

Mine includes the following wonderful line:

"We keep our women virgins 'till their married,
so hosing sheep is good enough for us!"

What's your favorite? Does it involve the rain, a prison, a truck, a dog, and a momma?

[Kamika]

1. define redneck song please

And I'll answer.

If it's country I dont have one since I dont like any country song

[Lefty48197]

2. B double E double R un spells beer run

B double E double R un spells beer run
All we need is a ten and a fiver,
keys and a car and a sober driver
B double E double R un spells beer run

[Coventina]

3. Drop-kick me Jesus!

Through the goalposts of life!

[NightTrain]

4. Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama"

I could do without the verse that defends George Wallace, but I do love the third verse about the Muscle Shoals R&B scene!

[jimbo fett]

12. I'm with you on this one. I can't help but sing along.

[SiobhanClancy]

5. I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home...

a true classic!:)
excerpt:

She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home,
So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam.
We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall.
And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."

She said: "Just bring your Friday paychecks, and I'll cash them all right here.
And I'll keep on tap - for all your friends, their favorite kinds of beer.
And for you, I'll always keep in stock, those soft aluminum cans.
And when you're feeling macho, you can crush them like a man."

She said: "We'll rip out all the carpet, and put sawdust on the floor.
Serve hard boiled eggs and pretzels, and I won't cook no more.
There'll be Monday night football, on T.V. above the bar.
And a pay phone in the hallway, when your friends can't find their car."

[Bronco69]

6. The Girls All Get Prettier At Closin' Time

Mickey Gilley :-)

[DieboldMustDie]

7. That Godforsaken Hellhole I Call Home

by the Austin Lounge Lizards:

When life calls me to travel far and wide
Thoughts of home are with me as down the road I ride
Up on the highest mountain or out on the deep blue sea
I can't forget my friends and family
There's no place on the planet quite the same
No matter how far out I go to play this worldly game
Breezes may smell sweeter the farther afield they blow
But back to where I came from I must go
To that Godforsaken hellhole I call home
Always calls me back again
wherever I may roam
as squalid as Calcutta; decadent as Rome
That Godforsaken hellhole I call home

When I see that Welcome sign I shed a tear
Why have I come back again; what am I doing here?
But like a life-long prison without hope for parole
I can't escape these shackles on my soul
That Godforsaken hellhole I call home
Always calls me back again
wherever I may roam
Farther out than Fargo; lonelier than Nome
That Godforsaken hellhole I call home

The stranger came to town and asked me why
Instead of pulling in again I don't just pass it by?
But all my friends are buried here and some of them are dead
So home is where I'll always hang my head
That Godforsaken hellhole I call home
Always calls me back again wherever I may roam
Squalid as Calcutta; decadent as Rome
That Godforsaken hellhole I call home

© 1992 Richard Bowden, Hank Card, Conrad Deisler, Tom Pittman, & Kirk Williams

http://www.austinlizards.com/

[Bertha Venation]

8. "Goodbye, Earl" and two others, also by the Dixie Chicks

"White Trash Wedding"

And

"Merry Christmas from the Family"

Don't know if they qualify as "redneck," but my sisters would say so.

[PVnRT]

17. "Goodbye Earl" isn't redneck

It's about two women getting rid of an abusive husband. I think it's great. And funny.

[KG]

19. robert earle keen wrote "Merry Christmas from the Family"

[GOPisEvil]

9. Up against the wall, redneck Mother!

A Texas classic! :thumbsup:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

18. Gotta love Jerry Jeff Walker

here's a website that automatically plays the song:

www.jessiesweb.com/muther2.htm

Doesn't say where it was recorded. Pretty cool though.

[GOPisEvil]

20. Ray Wylie Hubbard wrote it though.

JJW does the definitive version.

[maveric]

35. Always loved Jerry Jeff. Heres his bio.

http://imusic.artistdirect.com/showcase/contemporary/jerryjeffwalker.html

[Art_from_Ark]

10. There were a few times when I could definitely relate to

"Take this job and shove it! I ain't workin' here no more!"

[dawgman]

11. mama tried, Good hearted woman, Are you sure ole hank done it this way.

Long haired country boy, workin'man blues, uneasy rider (funny that in the latter song Charlie Daniels sings about having a peace sign on his car and tokin' on a number all the while lampooning all that is stereotypical south)... i could go on

[Terwilliger]

13. God Bless America

what a group of nutcases!

[MrBenchley]

14. You think I'm psycho, dontcha, momma?

Can mary fry some fish, mama
I'm as hungry as can be
Oh lord, how i wish, mama
You could stop the baby cryin'
'cause my head is killing me

I saw my ex again last night mama
She was at the dance at miller's store
She was with that jackie white mama
I killed them both
And they're buried under jacob's sycamore

You think i'm psycho don't you mama
I didn't mean to break your cup
You think i'm psycho don't you mama
You better let 'em lock me up

Oh, don't hand me johnny's pup mama
As i might squeeze him too tight
I'm havin' crazy dreams again mama
So let me tell you 'bout last night

I woke up in johnny's room mama
Standing right there by his bed
With my hands around his throat mama
Wishing both of us were dead

You think i'm psycho don't you mama
I just killed johnny's pup
You think i'm psycho don't you mama
You'd better let 'em lock me up

Oh you recall that little girl mama
I believe her name was betty clark
Oh don't tell me that she's dead mama
'cause i just saw her in the park

We were sitting on a bench mama
Thinking of a game to play
Seems i was holding a wrench mama
Then my mind just walked away

You think i'm psycho don't you mama
I didn't mean to break your cup
You think i'm psycho don't you mama
Mama why don't you get up?

From 1965 or thereabouts....

[Dogmudgeon]

15. Merry Christmas from the Family

I've forgotten the name of the "progressive country" artist who did it originally; I think Jill Sobule covered it, too.

It describes a down-home Christmas gathering. And, because Sister's boyfriend is Mexican, they all sing Feliz Navidad.

There's also a second version of it.

Can anybody help with who originated this song?

--bkl

[CrownPrinceBandar]

25. I think it was Robert Earl Keen?

I'm guessing, here...

[KG]

16. you're spooking the horses and you're scaring me

Fred Eaglesmith

http://www.fredeaglesmith.com/index.php

[Grassrooter]

21. Okay, I'll admit ...

I get a kick out of listening to Garth Brooks' "Friends In Low Places":

Blame it all on my roots
I showed up in boots
And ruined your black tie affair
The last one to know
The last one to show
I was the last one
You thought you'd see there
And I saw the surprise
And the fear in his eyes
When I took his glass of champagne
And I toasted you
Said, honey, we may be through
But you'll never hear me complain

'Cause I've got friends in low places
Where the whiskey drowns
And the beer chases my blues away
And I'll be okay
I'm not big on social graces
Think I'll slip on down to the oasis
Oh, I've got friends in low places ...

[LWolf]

22. The asshole song.

Jimmy Buffett:

Well I was drivin' down I-95 the other night.
Somebody nearly cut me right off the road.
I decided it wasn't gonna do any good to get mad.
So I wrote a song about him instead.
It goes like this...

Were you born an asshole?
Or did you work at it your whole life?
Either way it worked out fine
'cause you're an asshole tonight.

Yes you're an A S S H O L E...
And don't you try to blame it on me.
You deserve all the credit.
You're an asshole tonight.

You were an asshole yesterday.
You're an asshole tonight.
And I've got a feelin'
you'll be an asshole the rest of your life.

And I was talkin' to your mother
just the other night.
I told her I thought you were an asshole.
She said, "Yes. I think you're right."

And all your friends are assholes
'cause you've known them your whole life.
And somebody told me
you've got an asshole for a wife.

Were you born an asshole?
Or did you work at it your whole life?
Either way it worked out fine
'cause you're an aaaass...hole tonight.

It's my favorite response to this one:

Put Another Log on the Fire - Tompall Glaser

Put another log on the fire.
Cook me up some bacon and some beans.
And go out to the car and change the tyre.
Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.
Come on, baby, you can fill my pipe,
And then go fetch my slippers.
And boil me up another pot of tea.
Then put another log on the fire, babe,
And come and tell me why you're leaving me.

Now don't I let you wash the car on Sunday?
Don't I warn you when you're gettin fat?
Ain't I a-gonna take you fishin' with me someday?
Well, a man can't love a woman more than that.
Ain't I always nice to your kid sister?
Don't I take her driving every night?
So, sit here at my feet 'cos I like you when you're sweet,
And you know it ain't feminine to fight.

So, put another log on the fire.
Cook me up some bacon and some beans.
Go out to the car and lift it up and change the tyre.
Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans.
Come on, baby, you can fill my pipe,
And then go fetch my slippers.
And boil me up another pot of tea.
Then put another log on the fire, babe,
And come and tell me why you're leaving me.

[Zorro]

23. The preacher man says it’s the end of time...

The Mississippi river, she’s goin' dry
The interest is up, and the stock market’s down
You only get mugged if you go downtown
I live back in the woods you see,
My woman, my kids, and my dogs, and me
I got a shotgun, and a rifle, and a 4 wheel drive
A country boy can survive...

by the one and only Bocephus.


I'm also partial to...

"Six days on the Road and I'm gonna make it home tonight..."

It's hard to keep your foot off the accelerator when that one's aplayin'...

[mitchum]

24. LaGrange

they got a lot of nice girls out there

[CrownPrinceBandar]

26. "Piss Up a Rope" by Ween...

Greatest country album in years.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

27. Okie From Muskogee

There used to be a place in Silicon Valley called "The Circle Star Theater"...had a revolving stage. Frank Sinatra played there...Frank ZAPPA did too. Twice.

Merle Haggard did a double bill with George Jones at this place. There was a drunk in the audience who, after EVERY song, yelled "Ogee fumma skogee! Ogee fumma skogee!" Haggard only played a 30 minute set. The last song was "Okie." The drunk yelled "Thang yew Merle!" Haggard glanced over in his general direction as if he wanted to give the guy a prostate exam with the neck of his guitar.

The Theater was leveled and is now a high rise office building.You can still feel the ghosts of Glen Campbell, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Wayne Newton, Buddy Guy and hundreds of others when you drive by the old site on 101 in San Carlos. Blues legends, Rednecks, Rockers, Goodfellas and freaks, all under one roof.

[Ramsey]

28. ZZ Top

Cheap Sunglasses

or maybe, Fool for Your Stockings

or maybe, I'm bad, I'm Nationwide

All good redneck, moonshine drinking, road-tripping, all-night-partying kinda songs.

Ahhh, youth.

[OneBlueSky]

29. "M Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don't Love Jesus" . . .

Chorus:
My head hurts, my feet stink, and I don’t love jesus (oh my lordy it’s that...)
It’s that kind of mornin’
Really was that kind of night
Tryin’ to tell myself that my condition is improvin’
And if I don’t die by thursday I’ll be roarin’ friday night

Went down to the snake pit
To drink a little beer
Listen to the jukebox
Merle was comin’ in clear

All of a sudden I wad’n alone
Pickin’ country music with ol’ joe bones
Duval street was rockin’
My eyes they starting poppin’

Because there she sat at the corner of the bar
As I broke another string on my ol’ guitar
Someone call a cab
Lady won’tcha pay my tab

Chorus:
And now my head hurts, my feet stink, and I don’t love jesus
(oh my lordy it’s that...)
It’s that kinda mornin’
Really was that kinda night
Tryin’ to tell myself that my condition is improvin’
And if I don’t die by thursday I’ll be roarin’ friday night

Gotta get a little orange juice
And a darvon for my head
I can’t spend all day
Baby layin’ in the bed

I’m goin’ down to fausto’s get some chocolate milk
Can’t spend my life in yer sheets of silk
I’ve got to find my way
Crawl out and greet the day

Chorus:
But now my head hurts, my feet stink, and I don’t love jesus
(oh my lordy it’s that...)
It’s that kinda mornin’
Really was that kinda night
Tryin’ to tell myself that my condition is improvin’
And if I don’t die by thursday I’ll be roarin’ friday night

Let me tell ya, I be roarin’ friday night
I mean I’ll be
Roarin’
Friday
Night

[Edge]

30. None. I hate country music!

:puke:

[tinrobot]

31. Anything by Dwight Yoakum...

Guitars & Cadillacs, and Hillbilly Deluxe are my favorite albums of his...

He's probably too Hollywood to be a redneck, though...

[sasquatch]

32. 'Countryboy can survive'

:)People still sing along to it in bars when the Jukebox plays it.

[greendog]

33. Amarillo Highway.....by Terry Allen

Well
I'm a high straight in Plainview
Side bet in Idalou
An a fresh deck in New Deal
Yeah
Some call me high hand
An some call me low hand
But I'm holdin what I am- the wheel

'Cause
I'm panhandlin
Man handlin
Post holin'
High rollin'
Dust bowlin' daddy
An I ain't got no blood veins
I just got them four lanes
Of hard Amarillo Highway

Yeah
I don't wear no Stetson
But I'm willin to bet son
That I'm a big a Texan as you are
'Cause
There's a girl in her barefeet
'Sleep on the back seat
An that trunk is full of Pearl and Lone Star

(chorus)

So
Gonna hop outta bed
Pop a pill in my head
Yeah, bust the Hub for the Golden Spread
Under blue skies
Gonna stuff my hide
Behind some power glide
An get some southern fried back in my eyes

(chorus)

An close I'll ever get to heaven
Is makin' speed up ol' 87
Of that hard-ass Amarillo Highway

[The Zanti Regent]

34. "Drop Kick Me Jesus, Thru The Goal Post Of Life"...

the title says it all...

[Bake]

36. I was drunk the day my Mom got outta 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 over by a damned ol' train!!!!!!

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standing in the rain
You don't have to call me "Darlin," Darlin'
YOu never even called me (I wonder why you don't call me)
Why don't you ever call me by my !@#$#@! name.

Bake

[Bake]

37. London Homesick Blues -- another good 'un!

Better known to some as the theme song to Austin City Limits, by Gary P. Nunn.

I want to go home with the armadillo
Country music from Amarillo to Abilene
The friendliest people and the prettiest* women you've ever seen.

*(alternately sung on drunk nights as "horniest")

Bake