# Country Music Song Subjects **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129 "2016-04-25T21:55:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129/21 "2016-04-27T17:21:36Z")
Ever-popular **adultery** : [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/iQ9QvfnIJUk/hqdefault.jpg "daytime friends-kenny rogers") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ9QvfnIJUk) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129/22 "2016-04-27T18:36:01Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > **Feed Jake** by _Pirates of the Mississippi_ is one about a dog. The dog was a side plot in a song about a man dying of AIDS. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129/23 "2016-04-27T19:30:10Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > You know that Ray Wylie Hubbard was being sarcastic? That song was not dedicated to a rural maternal figure–but to the stereotypical inbred of those days who enjoyed beating up longhairs. More recently he wrote [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-cFtSPIF4Q&list=RD8-cFtSPIF4Q)–which he introduces by saying “the trouble with irony is that not everybody gets it.” > > The Dillards perform["Old Blue"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMw2Fdylb4E)–& refer to Joan’s version. In which you hear their classic bluegrass & the humor that made them regulars on Andy Griffith’s show. (Before they split up to help create Country Rock with _Wheatstraw Suite_–and the Dillard & Clark Expedition.) > > If you want to learn about Country Music, listen to some. But I’d recommend starting with Old Timey & moving through Western Swing, Honky Tonk, Bluegrass & what’s called “Americana” nowadays. Listen to modern commercial country radio at your peril… I used to like the genre, back when Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Cash, Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, Roger Miller, etc. were ruling the airways. I still like those songs, but have zero interest in most everything after that. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129/24 "2016-04-28T05:25:04Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > _Convoy_, C.W. McCall (who did a lot of trucker songs) Trucker songs got real trendy around that time. (I think _Convoy_ might have been the start of it all. Trucks and truckers became real popular in the genre; chartreuse microbuses, not so much.) Also Red Sovine: _Phantom 409_ (Hitchhiker gets picked up by a ghost trucker); and _The Ballad of Teddy Bear_ (Crippled kid, son of dead trucker (maybe the son of Phantom 409?) gets on the CB and gets a surprise!) Roger Miller: _King of the Road_ of course! _Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys_ also mentions trucks. One-night stands and failed relationships were also standard subject matter, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129/25 "2016-04-28T05:30:10Z")
I worked as a computer operator in a huge data center around that time, with about a dozen other computer operators. We often communicated with brief text messages via our teletype terminals. When the trucker songs got popular, we all had trucker-style handles that we used in those messages. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129/26 "2016-04-28T05:35:34Z")
_King of the Road_ isn’t about truckers, it’s about a hobo. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129/27 "2016-04-28T05:40:15Z")
The Truck Got Stuck by Corb Lund and the Hurt in’ Albertans is a great song. I actually have a truck song of my own and I do perform it fairly often. Its called ‘’‘57, The Truck Song’’ and its about this '57 Kenworth that is still working in this area. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129/28 "2016-04-28T06:05:44Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > _King of the Road_ isn’t about truckers, it’s about a hobo. Oops – I was think of “I’ve Been A Long Time Leaving”, which (somewhat tangentially) mentions trucks. And failed relationships. ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129/29 "2016-04-28T06:06:35Z")
Merle Haggard wrote what seems like it should be a cliche’d kind of song - a prison warden leading a death row convict “to his doom” but, somehow Merle makes it work and not sound corny. Real simple song, maybe two chords. “Sing Me Back Home.” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5PEwBdCeINg/hqdefault.jpg "Merle Haggard - Sing Me Back Home") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PEwBdCeINg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-music-song-subjects/753129.md?page=1)