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My Life in Country
Posted by Clerk Kent on 16 April 2009 - 2:00pm.
If you had to boil down your life to a fake Country song title, what would it be?
The chap at the desk next to me, struggling with a new software package just exclaimed, “I’m right but I don’t want to be right”. Top that.
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" I wish I could remember..
..All those nights I try so hard to forget"
'Do what you can...
...it's never enough'
'My Wife Got Me A Thinkin'...
(But My Thinkin' Got Me A Wife)'
My Favourite Real one is :
All My Exes.......Wear Rolexes (John Daly)
a real country one
If Drinking Don't Kill Me, Her Memory Will
Not exactly proper country...
... but how about "Everyone thinks I'm paranoid"?
And is "Livin' Single Drinkin' Double" a real song? Its one of those ones that gets mentioned a lot...
Gary Stewart - She's Acting Single, I'm Drinking Doubles
Five O'Clock Somewhere
Many mornings/lunchtimes in County Donegal are spent debating whether or not to have the first pint of Guinness for the day. Inevitably someone says "Sure, its five o'clock somewhere".
This usually leads to none of us actually seeing five o'clock, mind you!
"If You Have To Ask, The Answer's No".
Made up. My favourite real one being the seminal "When you leave me, walk out backwards so I think you're coming in".
Here's side one of my imaginary debut album...
1. 'I Failed The Breath Test In The Bedroom (Now My Love Licence Has Been Revoked)'
2. 'She Said Goodbye ('Cos My Good Buy Cost Her Her Holiday)'
3. 'Last Night (The Kettle Let Me Down)'
4. 'When This Old Dog Barks, It Means She's Gonna Howl'
5. 'Leaving Cashville (One Must-Have Album At A Time)'
6. 'Christmas Card From The Repo Man'
Oh yeah...I forgot the bonus track
'I Was Gonna Come And See You (But My Parentheses Wouldn't Let Me Out)'
Country brackets
They always seem to use them, don't they? A few years ago, some friends and I formed an imaginary country/folk group. I've long forgotten most of our song titles, but...
1) It's Hard to be Hard (When You're Soft on the Drink)
2) Yesterday's Sandwiches, Tomorrow's Children.
3) I Only Drink on Calendar Days
4) Can Stephen Hawkins' Voicebox (do a Cheeky Camp Hurrah)
5) The Devil Went Down to George Best.
I liked Rich Hall's take on what makes "true country "
(on Room 101, when he picked fake country like Garth Brooks).
Real country is:
- pouring bourbon on your cornflakes
- eating dinner out of a frisbee.
Maybe real, maybe not....
I'm just a crumb in your breadbox of love.
There's a little box of pine on the seven twenty-nine
And this one is (I think) from the sleevenotes of a Stephen Bishop album:
I'm so miserable now you're gone, it's almost like having you here.
This
I Still Miss My Man (But My Aim is Getting Better)
is a book title but I think it would make a great song title.... and perhaps it already was. Does anyone know?