I Hate Sad Country Songs!

I absolutely hate sad country songs. I am not talking about the ones like Kenny Chesney's There Goes My Life or Montgomery Gentry's Lonely and Gone, I am talking about all the ones where the subject is losing your girl and then carrying on two and a half minutes of lyrics about how sad it feels. Boohoo. Grow up and move on. Life is too short to be sobbing in a corner and make believing that people feel sorry for you.

I understand that sad songs defined this whole genre, but come on, get off the barstool and make yourself useful. I love country music, but I don't sob and listen to it. I actually turn the channel when it starts playing some sob story.

This is all the more reason why we need more singers like Waylon Jennings. What songs are he famouse for? I'm a Ramblin Man, Midnight Rider, Mason Dixon Line, Good Ol' Boys etc. See a pattern? These songs in particular are all about not taking any crap and running from the law. Take these lines from I'm a Ramblin Man for instance...

"Left a girl in West Virginia,
Up there where that green grass grows,
Yes, I did. Another girl in Cincinnati,
Waitin' where the Ohio River flows,Poor girl!
I'm a ramblin' man,
Don't give your heart to a ramblin' man."

Does he cry about girls left behind? Nope. In fact he is warning them not to fall for guys like him. He is doing a public service to everyone by warning them not to fall in love with a ramblin man. I think that he deserves a prize for doing such a distinguished service. I know that someone is thinking, "But Waylon Jennings sang some sad songs." Maybe, but he just did that to satisfy his lable. Don't question me, I know I am right.

Life comes hard. Don't waste any more of it sulking and listening to sad country songs and drive yourself into more of a depression. Get up and do something like go into the mountains and fight a cougar (my personal favorite anti depressant), or better yet GET ANOTHER GIRLFRIEND if you are so hung up about it. Until next time keep your chin up and eyes dry.