Country Music is Pretty Funny when You Pay Attention to the Lyrics!

Here is a brief ramble about country music and humor. First, this joke was posted by Socorro 43 at Yahoo! Answers:

" 'A cowboy and a biker are on death row, and are to be executed on the same day. The day comes, and they are brought to the gas chamber. The warden asks the cowboy if he has a last request, to which the cowboy replies, 'Ah shore do, warden. Ah'd be mighty grateful if'n yoo'd play 'Achy Breaky Heart' fur me bahfore ah hafta go.'

'Sure enough, cowboy, we can do that,' says the warden. He turns to the biker, 'And you, biker, what's your last request?'

'That you kill me first.' "

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I am a huge country music fan. A few years ago, I would have been ashamed to admit that.

The blame belongs entirely to people I used to work with. They listened to country music all day every day in our trailer office. And country music just grew on me like an annoying coworker who becomes your friend or maybe like a bad toe fungus. Now I listen to country music everywhere I go and it surprises my siblings, my parents, and even perfect strangers. What people may not know is that my recently deceased grandfather owned a farm for forty years, complete with cows and chickens? My dad's family used to joke that they had eggs for breakfast, eggs for lunch, and eggs for dinner.

Country music takes a lot of ridicule from people who hate it or just don't get it. This article points to the hilarious lines that you can hear in mainstream country music if you really stop and listen to the words in the songs. Remember, these lyrics usually make sense in the verse, but they are funny when taken out of context.

Here is a list of some random lines from songs played frequently on the radio:

"Where I come from, it's corn bread and chicken..."

"I keep my Christmas lights on on my front porch all year long."

"I want to check you for ticks."

"I'm the son of a third generation farmer, I've been married ten years to the farmer's daughter."

"Shut my mouth, slap your grandma."

"I had a one night stand with my best friend's baby sister."

"A little bit of backseat, a little bit of moon, a little bit of radio going boom boom boom!"

"A little bit of come on, a little bit of hay, a little bit of yee-haw in the hay!"

"Grandma got runned over by a reindeer walking out to our house Christmas Eve"

"Mama's in the graveyard...Papa's in the pen"

"Girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinkin"

"She hit me with the left and right"

"Save a horse, ride a cowboy"

Post Script: Grandmothers suffer a lot in country music songs.