Greatest first lines of country songs

"Well it was all that I could do to keep from crying..."


ETA...ok...seriously, now:

"Living on the road, my friend, was gonna keep you free and clean. Now you wear your skin like iron and your breath's as hard as kerosene."

King George has two of my favorites


"Cold Fort Worth beer just ain't no good for jealous"

"Well excuse me, but I think you've got my chair"

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King George

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"Last night I broke the seal on a
Jim Beam decanter that looks like Elvis"

- The King Is Gone, George Jones

"In a pawn shop in Chicago, on a sunny summer day"

"The only two things in life that make it worth living, is guitars tuned good and firm feeling women"

Well it’s a Bloody Mary mornin baby left me without warnin sometime in the night

“It's knowin' that your door is always open
And your path is free to walk”

“Out in the West Texas town of El Paso
I fell in love with a Mexican girl”

Threadbare alibis, and a lifetime full of promise
Fell from my Mary's eyes when she saw the screen door swing. - Hal Ketchum

You were the first thing that I thought of
When I thought I drank you off my mind
When I get lost in the liquor
You're the only one I find. - Clint Black

Love is a burning thing
And it makes a fiery ring
Bound by wild desire
I fell in to a ring of fire. - Johnny Cash

Sometimes its hard to be a woman
Givin all your love to just one man
You'll have bad times and he'll have good times
Doing things that you don't understand. - Tammy Wynette

Jolene, jolene, jolene, jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, jolene, jolene, jolene
Please don't take him just because you can. - Dolly Parton

See him wasted on the sidewalk, in his jacket and his jeans

The bars are all closed
it's four in the morning
must have shut 'em all down
by the shape that I'm in.