# Country songs about unrequited love **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035 "2014-11-19T02:27:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [November 20, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/21 "2014-11-20T17:26:09Z")
**Pretty Woman** , Roy Orbison [Midnight At The Oasis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlrKETxwRvM), Maria Muldaur (not really country, but it fits the OP) [Me And Mrs Jones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPZwOTlQQDc), Marvin Gaye (again, not country) [Walk On By](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QlqQA8CyjE), Leroy Van Dyke (a Jim Reeves song) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/22 "2014-11-20T17:34:50Z")
[One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxG3kpFv6ck) - Here’s the Jerry Lee Lewis version ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/23 "2014-11-20T19:05:34Z")
> [@DirkGntly](#): > > Now we are hitting the target! Forbidden love definitely works. This does lead us into a gray area… there are a lot of songs about clandestine affairs, such as “The Dark End of the Street” and the previously mentioned “Walk On By”… should we be including songs like that? ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/24 "2014-11-20T19:12:29Z")
[Wolverton Mountain](http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=wolverton+mountain+youtube&qpvt=wolverton+mountain+youtube&FORM=VQFRML#view=detail&mid=DA24DBCC45D2D02CDEABDA24DBCC45D2D02CDEAB)by Claude King… a classic of the “her folks won’t let me see her” variety… of course, at the end, he says he’s going to go get her anyway, but I get the feeling Clifton Clowers is going to take care of him pretty easily. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/25 "2014-11-20T20:42:53Z")
Not exactly country, and not the era you are looking for, but there’s this: [It’s Sad to Belong](http://youtu.be/r9QI-Ne_YTU) - England Dan and John Ford Coley ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/26 "2014-11-20T21:40:54Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > This does lead us into a gray area… there are a lot of songs about clandestine affairs, such as “The Dark End of the Street” and the previously mentioned “Walk On By”… should we be including songs like that? Not exactly what I’m looking for but close enough that I will allow it! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/27 "2014-11-21T13:39:15Z")
Next in Line - Conway Twitty That one’s exactly on point. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/28 "2014-11-21T13:51:01Z")
Please Help Me I’m Falling - Hank Locklin Also on point. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/29 "2014-11-21T13:58:40Z")
They’re coming to me fast and furious now… On the Other Hand - Randy Travis (Love you, but I’m married.) Before the Next Teardrop Falls - Freddy Fender (Arguably. Not clear whether her ever had a thing with the person he’s singing to.) ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/30 "2014-11-21T14:45:46Z")
[“Just to See You Smile”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jKwji7imU) by Tim McGraw, although they were together for a while [“Love Letters From Old Mexico”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xsiIk8bSdA) by Leslie Satcher feat. Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris [“Whisky Lullaby”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbN_nmxAGk) by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss, which in my headcanon is about the couple in “He Stopped Loving Her Today” ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/31 "2014-11-21T15:21:30Z")
[Tight Fittin’ Jeans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-993tLyeVqw) - Conway Twitty ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/32 "2014-11-21T15:53:12Z")
A couple: [Johnny Cash - I Still Miss Someone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkgsgAsKtLs) [Travis Tritt and Patty Loveless - I Know You’re Married (But I Love You Still)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_M2AAw_d-8) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/33 "2014-11-21T16:30:55Z")
I can’t find a single country version of this, but what the hell. [Midnight Confessions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nZnqtDdsws). ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/34 "2014-11-21T18:12:52Z")
Leon Payne, The Blind Balladeer, wrote “They’ll Never Take Her Love From Me.” Hank recorded it, Emmylou recorded it & so did Doug Sahm, aka [Wayne Douglas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A6wBN4cvP0). The Louvin Brothers wrote “[When I Stop Dreaming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUhYckHoTxM).” (Emmylou recorded that one, too.) ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035/35 "2014-11-22T02:27:32Z")
Merle Haggard, Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down Steve Goodman/David Allan Coe, You Never Even Call Me By My Name [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/country-songs-about-unrequited-love/705035.md?page=1)