The ideas for country music songs thread

[arch stanton]

If I remember the general rule of thumb: Drinkin' and thinkin' always go together. Like :
I'm just siting here thinkin'
That girl's got me drinkin'

[calexico]

"Fuck off and die,you two timing bitch"

It needs a little work...

[Trellis]

Ain't No Flags in Heaven, a song about how, well, there ain't no goddamn flags in heaven.

[Lawrence Fan]

Record the song backwards and you'll get your truck back, your dog back, and your girl back.

[trousersnakeandlarry]

I won a poolitser?

[saratoga jay]

9/11 Blues

Postin' on this here website, Lord,
Aint nothing worse'n a message board,
None of these fools know just how I feel,

Making connections electronically,
With a whacko from across the sea,
But an drunk Irishman can't replace my Lucille,

Lucille was my girl and I was her man,
But she got sent off to fight in Iran,
Now she's driving some old tank for the Marines,

So here I am, all by my self,
Pictures gathering dust on the shelf,
Living on cigarettes and broken dreams,

We had our problems and she wanted out,
The recruiter said he knew what she's talkin about,
Never was the same after she joined the Corp,

Lucille stopped writing two months later,
I became the world's best masturbator,
Even as good as my buddy Linwood Thorpe,

Last night I got spam in my email,
Saw a familiar figure in the thumbnail,
It was Lucille naked and riding on her tank,

She was the teenage queen of Desert Storm,
Getting paid top dollar for Hi-Res porn,
It broke my heart but I still had to spank,

I miss her, Lord, I can't lie,
When I think about her I want to cry,
But every month I renew my Adult Pass,

I wouldn't take her back, Lord, if I could,
After all she's seen, I'd do her no good,
The Marine Corp done ran a train, on her ass

So take it from me, it's free advice,
If your girl isn't happy you better think twice,
Before you let her get a notion in her head,

Goddamn Bush and this awful war,
For sending my baby off so far,
Them Republicans wont rest until she's dead.


Now I sit her clickin links,
Looking at my baby showing that pink,
and crying as I bookmark every one.
and crying as I bookmark every one.

The Pulitzer Prize Winners

Poetry

1922 Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
1923 The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver: A Few Figs from Thistles: Eight Sonnets in American Poetry, 1922. A Miscellany by Edna St. Vincent Millay (Harper)
1924 New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost (Holt)
1925 The Man Who Died Twice by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
1926 What's O'Clock by the late Amy Lowell (Houghton)
1927 Fiddler's Farewell by Leonora Speyer (Knopf)
1928 Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson (Macmillan)
1929 John Browns Body by Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar)
1930 Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken (Scribner)
1931 Collected Poems by Robert Frost (Holt)
1932 The Flowering Stone by George Dillon (Viking)
1933 Conquistador by Archibald Macleish (Houghton)
1934 Collected Verse by Robert Hillyer (Knopf)
1935 Bright Ambush by Audrey Wurdemann (John Day)
1936 Strange Holiness by Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Macmillan)
1937 A Further Range by Robert Frost (Holt)
1938 Cold Morning Sky by Marya Zaturenska (Macmillan)
1939 Selected Poems by John Gould Fletcher (Farrar)
1940 Collected Poems by Mark Van Doren (Holt)
1941 Sunderland Capture by Leonard Bacon (Harper)
1942 The Dust Which Is God by William Rose Benet (Dodd)
1943 A Witness Tree by Robert Frost (Holt)
1944 Western Star by the late Stephen Vincent Benet (Farrar)
1945 V-Letter and Other Poems by Karl Shapiro (Reynal)
1946 (No Award)
1947 Lord Weary's Castle by Robert Lowell (Harcourt)
1948 The Age of Anxiety by W. H. Auden (Random)
1949 Terror and Decorum by Peter Viereck (Scribner)
1950 Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (Harper)
1951 Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg (Harcourt)
1952 Collected Poems by Marianne Moore (Macmillan)
1953 Collected Poems 1917-1952 by Archibald MacLeish (Houghton)
1954 The Waking by Theodore Roethke (Doubleday)
1955 Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens (Knopf)
1956 Poems - North & South by Elizabeth Bishop (Houghton)
1957 Things of This World by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt)
1958 Promises: Poems 1954-1956 by Robert Penn Warren (Random)
1959 Selected Poems 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz (Little)
1960 Heart's Needle by W. D. Snodgrass (Knopf)
1961 Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades by Phyllis McGinley (Viking)
1962 Poems by Alan Dugan (Yale Univ. Press)
1963 Pictures from Brueghel by the late William Carlos Williams (New Directions)
1964 At The End Of The Open Road by Louis Simpson (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
1965 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman (Farrar)
1966 Selected Poems by Richard Eberhart (New Directions)
1967 Live or Die by Anne Sexton (Houghton)
1968 The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht (Atheneum)
1969 Of Being Numerous by George Oppen (New Directions)
1970 Untitled Subjects by Richard Howard (Atheneum)
1971 The Carrier of Ladders by William S. Merwin (Atheneum)
1972 Collected Poems by James Wright (Wesleyan Univ. Press)
1973 Up Country by Maxine Kumin (Harper)
1974 The Dolphin by Robert Lowell (Farrar)
1975 Turtle Island by Gary Snyder (New Directions)
1976 Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery (Viking)
1977 Divine Comedies by James Merrill (Atheneum)
1978 Collected Poems by Howard Nemerov (Univ. of Chicago)
1979 Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren (Random)
1980 Selected Poems by Donald Justice (Atheneum)
1981 The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler (Farrar, Straus)
1982 The Collected Poems by the late Sylvia Plath (a posthumous publication) (Harper & Row)
1983 Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell (Houghton Mifflin)
1984 American Primitive by Mary Oliver (Atlantic-Little, Brown)
1985 Yin by Carolyn Kizer (BOA Editions)
1986 The Flying Change by Henry Taylor (Louisiana State University Press)
1987 Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove (Carnegie-Mellon University Press)
1988 Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems by William Meredith (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1990 The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)
1991 Near Changes by Mona Van Duyn (Alfred A. Knopf)
1992 Selected Poems by James Tate (Wesleyan University Press)
1993 The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck (The Ecco Press)
1994 Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems by Yusef Komunyakaa (Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England)
1995 The Simple Truth by Philip Levine (Alfred A. Knopf)
1996 The Dream of the Unified Field by Jorie Graham (The Ecco Press)
1997 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems by Lisel Mueller (Louisiana State University Press)
1998 Black Zodiac by Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
1999 Blizzard of One by Mark Strand (Alfred A. Knopf)
2000 Repair by C.K. Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2001 Different Hours by Stephen Dunn (W.W. Norton & Company)
2002 Practical Gods by Carl Dennis (Penguin Books)
2003 Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2004 Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf)
2005 Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser (Copper Canyon Press)
2006 9/11 Blues by TrouserSnakenandLarry (Jay Farrar.Net)

[gdavis5446]

Getting laid off + Knocking up your girl + punching out her old man = Good country song

[Unhurried Ways]

"I got the only house in Trailer Town"

[trousersnakeandlarry]

9/11 Blues

Postin' on this here website, Lord,
Aint nothing worse'n a message board,
None of these fools know just how I feel,

Making connections electronically,
With a whacko from across the sea,
But an drunk Irishman can't replace my Lucille,

Lucille was my girl and I was her man,
But she got sent off to fight in Iran,
Now she's driving some old tank for the Marines,

So here I am, all by my self,
Pictures gathering dust on the shelf,
Living on cigarettes and broken dreams,

We had our problems and she wanted out,
The recruiter said he knew what she's talkin about,
Never was the same after she joined the Corp,

Lucille stopped writing two months later,
I became the world's best masturbator,
Even as good as my buddy Linwood Thorpe,

Last night I got spam in my email,
Saw a familiar figure in the thumbnail,
It was Lucille naked and riding on her tank,

She was the teenage queen of Desert Storm,
Getting paid top dollar for Hi-Res porn,
It broke my heart but I still had to spank,

I miss her, Lord, I can't lie,
When I think about her I want to cry,
But every month I renew my Adult Pass,

I wouldn't take her back, Lord, if I could,
After all she's seen, I'd do her no good,
The Marine Corp done ran a train, on her ass

So take it from me, it's free advice,
If your girl isn't happy you better think twice,
Before you let her get a notion in her head,

Goddamn Bush and this awful war,
For sending my baby off so far,
Them Republicans wont rest until she's dead.


Now I sit her clickin links,
Looking at my baby showing that pink,
and crying as I bookmark every one.
and crying as I bookmark every one.

[saratoga jay]

I Was Bucky When Bucky Wasn't Cool

[blackseacityman]

I got tears in my ears from lying on my back crying over you.

[Poster Nutbag]

"She broke my heeeeaaaaarrrrrt, so I broke her jaaaaaaaaaw"

[camaroheadus]

song title..."she got the ring, and i got the finger"

[calexico]

My balls ain't dropped yet and I got a hot prom date tonight!

[bigdieseltrucker]

What ever happened to tugging at the heartstrings of the working class with a bunch of sentimental generalizations of yesterday while still utilizing the catchy cliches of today set to an A-A-B-B rhyme scheme?