# What are your top 10 favorite country songs of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 2, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400 "2005-10-02T01:13:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400/41 "2005-10-03T03:55:11Z")
Could I add “The Weight” (Robertson)? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400/42 "2005-10-03T03:57:19Z")
Actually, a ton of The Band stuff… “Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Denver train…” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Silence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Silence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Silence)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400/43 "2005-10-03T04:25:29Z")
Hello Darling (Conway Twitty) Poncho and Lefty (As performed by Haggard and Nelson) Luckenbach, Texas (Waylon Jennings) Georgia on My Mind (as performed by Willy Nelson) Witchita Lineman (Glen Campbell) Walkin’ After Midnight (as performed by Cline or Garth Brooks) Passenger Side (Wilco) Tennessee Waltz (as performed by Patsy Cline) I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Williams Sr) A Country Boy Can Survive (Williams Jr) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400/44 "2005-10-03T04:34:47Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > Actually, a ton of The Band stuff… > > “Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Denver train…” Or [Danville train, even](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/band,-the/12332.html). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400/45 "2005-10-03T04:52:24Z")
OK, OK, but is The Band country or not? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400/46 "2005-10-03T06:19:11Z")
_Whiskey Lullaby_–Brad Paisley and Allison Krauss _He’ll Have To Go_–Jim Reeves _Heaven In My Woman’s Eyes_–Tracy Byrd _Shake the Sugar Tree_–Pam Tillis _How Can I Help You To Say Goodbye_–Patty Loveless _Beautiful Goodbye_–Jennifer Hanson _Bring On the Rain_–Jo Dee Messina (featuring Tim McGraw) _When I Said I Do_–Clint and Lisa Hartman Black _It’s Just A Matter Of Time_–Randy Travis _Carryin’ Your Love With Me_–George Strait ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400/47 "2005-10-03T13:27:28Z")
Not necessarily in order, and with only one song per artist: 1. “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” George Jones 2. “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” Hank Williams Sr. 3. “I Walk the Line,” Johnny Cash 4. “She’s Got You,” Patsy Cline 5. “In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad),” Dolly Parton 6. “All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers,” Merle Haggard 7. “Wings Upon Your Horns,” Loretta Lynn 8. “Long White Cadillac,” Dwight Yoakam 9. “Don’t Put No Headstone on My Grave,” Jerry Lee Lewis [and an honorable mention for Charlie Rich’s original] 10. “You Never Even Called Me By My Name,” David Allen Coe ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400/48 "2005-10-03T14:12:26Z")
Kenny Chesney - “There Goes My Life” Randy Travis - “Three Wooden Crosses” Braid Paisley and Allison Krausse - “Whiskey Lullabye” Martina McBride - “Concrete Angel” John Michael Montgomery - “Little Girl” Johnny Cash - “Ring of Fire” Patsy Cline - “I Fall To Pieces” George Jones - “He Stopped Loving Her Today” Tanya Tucker - “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane” Lee Ann Womack - “I Hope You Dance” Could easily do twenty… ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400/49 "2005-10-03T14:34:22Z")
Riley Puckett, “Ragged But Right” Carter Family, “I Ain’t Gonna Work Tomorrow” Milton Brown, “Taking Off” Bob Wills, “Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)” Delmore Brothers, “Blues Stay Away From Me” Hank Williams, “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle” Al Dexter, “WIne, Women and Song” Johnny Cash, “Folsom Prison Blues” Lefty Frizzell, “The Long Black Veil” Bobby Bare, “Detroit City” Dolly Parton, “Jolene” George Jones, “The Grand Tour” Buck Owens, “Close Up the Honky Tonks” Johnny Darrell, “Why You Been Gone So Long” John Anderson, “Wild and Blue” ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400/50 "2005-10-03T15:47:28Z")
In no order: You Never Even Call Me By My Name–David Allan Coe Folsum Prison Blues–Johnny Cash Gentle on My Mind–Glen Campbell I Fall to Pieces–Patsy Cline Flowers on the Wall–Statler Brothers Guitars, Cadillacs–Dwight Yoakam Much Too Young–Garth Brooks Someday Soon–Suzy Boggus Mama Tried–Merle Haggard Wurlitzer Prize–Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-top-10-favorite-country-songs-of-all-time/324400.md?page=2)