Seven Spanish Angels............. Willie However, if you've never heard He Stopped Loving Her Today played at a funeral, then you don't get a vote.
Another contender: SHE'S ACTING SINGLE, I'M DRINKING DOUBLES Gary Stewart I've seen men look at her before And they think, I don't see them I'd like to think it makes me proud But, I'm only.. fooling me I know she'll be lookin' back The minute I'm not there While she pours herself on some stranger I pour myself a drink somewhere She's acting single I'm drinking double I hide my pain I drown my troubles My heart is breaking Like the tiny bubbles She's acting single I'm drinking doubles I know all she plans to do But I don't know where or when If I ask who that stranger was She'll just say, "an old friend" I'm not weak, I tell myself I stay because I'm strong The truth is, I'm not man enough To stop her from doing me wrong She's acting single I'm drinking doubles I hide my pain I drown my troubles My heart is breaking Like the tiny bubbles She's acting single I'm drinking doubles She's acting single I'm drinking doubles I hide my pain I drown my troubles
Gary Stewart is very underrated and one of my favorites. Thanks for bringing him into this. She's Acting Single(I'm Drinking Double) -The Link "If I wait at home, I'll only ask her questions She'd probably tell the truth, so I don't even ask " Drinking Thing -The Link
A few from Merle: If We Make It Through December -The Link Silver Wings -The Link Sing Me Back Home -The Link
really? no one has said "don't take the girl" by McGraw. i do not like him or that song, but it is the saddest song I have heard.
Its funny before I even clicked on the link I thought George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and there it was about 10 times.
Hurt isn't a Johnny Cash song though. It's a Nine Inch Nails song. Do covers count? How about these: Earl Thomas Conley - Holding Her and Loving You Garth Brooks - What She's Doing Now Brooks & Dunn - She Used To Be Mine Alan Jackson - Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning George Strait - You Look So Good In Love George Strait - Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her George Strait - I Hate Everything Blaine Larson - How Do You Get That Lonely
Reznor's "Hurt" is good, but Cash's version is greatness. The same can be said for the Cash cover of Springsteen's "Further On Up The Road". In my humble opinion of course.
I don't see why covers shouldn't count. One I forgot to mention. Jerry Lee Lewis - She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye The Link
All These Years - Sawyer Brown Simple Man - Lynard Skynard Go Rest High on the Mountian - Vince Gill Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) - Jim Croce
First ones that come to mind: How Can I Help You Say Goodbye - Patty Loveless Go Rest High On That Mountain - Vince Gill Don't Take The Girl - Tim McGraw
"Teddy Bear" by Gene Watson is hard to beat as the saddest. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" is top 5, no doubt. As is Conway Twitty's "That's My Job". How about "Good ol' Boys Like Me" by Don Williams? Damn good song. Others: - "Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphy. - "Holes in the Floor of Heaven" by Steve Wariner - "Traveling Soldier" by Bruce Robison - "My Brother and Me" by Bruce Robison
In an earlier post, I called it "The Whippoorwill Song", but it's better known as "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry". Sung by Hank Williams in waltz time, it's as sad as a train whistle after a funeral on a cold winter day. ""Hear the lonesome whippoorwill. He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whining low. I'm so lonesome I could cry."
"If You're Reading This (I'm Already Home)" -- Tim McGraw "All These Years" -- Sawyer Brown "Go Rest High On That Mountain" -- Vince Gill "Nothin' But The Wheel" -- Patty Loveless "Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind" -- Confederate Railroad
George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today" gets my vote. But before that song came out, Bobby Goldboro's song "Honey" was a tear jerker. Of course, I may be one of very few people on this board old enough to remember that song.
