Patsy Cline's "Walkin' After Midnight"

What made this such a torch song among women?

It seems to be the ultimate post-breakup song...

I heard someone say her singing voice was like crying.

There was so much genuine emotion in her vocals.

I have no idea why since I was a metalhead/alternative music kind guy. I used to be embarrassed that I liked her,but now as I approach forty,it's no big deal

by the Rev. Billy C. Wirtz:

I go out walkin' after midnight
with a flashlight and a can of mace

And if I'm walkin' after midnight
get out of my face

:D

"Before He Cheats"

This morning, I was in Dunkin' Donuts for my morning coffee, and it came on over the PA. This group of girls all started shouting the lyrics — and this was in the a.m., at a donut shop. Not in the very early a.m. at a bar. Never seen anything like it.

Right now he's probably slow dancing with a bleached-blond tramp,
and she's probably getting frisky.
right now he's probably buying her some fruity little drink
cause she can't shoot whiskey.
right now, he's probably up behind her with a pool-stick,
showing her how to shoot a combo
and he don't know...

I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats.
I took a louisville slugger to both head lights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires.
maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.

right now, she's probably up singing some
white-trash version of Shania karoke..
right now, she's probably saying "I'm drunk"
and he's thinking that he's gonna lucky,
right now, he's probably dabbing on 3 dollars worth of that bathroom cologne.
and he don't know...

I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seat...
I took a louisville slugger to both head lights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires...
maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.

I might've saved a little trouble for the next girl,
cause the next time that he cheats..
oh you know it won't be on me!
no.. not on me..

I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seat...
I took a louisville slugger to both head lights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires...
maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.
ohh.. maybe next time he'll think.. before he cheats...

ohh... before he cheats...
ohhhh.


Harsh!

I guess on the surface it's okay... but I spend my entire day trying to teach kids not to be so confrontational all the damn time. And besides that, if a guy did this to a girl who cheated on him, it would be patently unacceptable.

I don't have really strong feelings about it, but it does bother me just a bit.

Country music's chock full of murder ballads, especially ones that involve killing your girlfriend or wife, but I doubt Johnny Cash was advocating uxoricide with "Delia's Gone," or Garth Brooks advocating it with "Papa Loved Mama."

I'm not familiar with the Johnny Cash song, but in the Garth Brooks song was told in the third person, like a story. I guess that's why it never bothered me much. But... point well taken.

If you're a wingnut.

Bake

She does it with a sort of bluesy delivery. It's not bad, especially for an Idol winner.

Just went and looked it up on YouTube--damn! Reminds me of early Shania Twain and the Chicks singing "Goodbye Earl".

emotion without becoming hysterical or over-the-top. She and Hank Williams seemed very authentic in that way.

Kind of off-topic, but, I was recently remembering my college days when I used to wander off to the wrong side of the tracks and visit a little diner with a jukebox, just so I could play Freddy Fender's "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights." Never been much of a Country fan, but that was a perfect Country Honky Tonk song. (And pretty amusing.)