Top Ten Country Music Lyrics

10) “Well I might go get me a new tattoo / Take my old Harley for a three day cruise / Might even grow me a Fu Manchu.” –Travis Tritt, “It’s a Great Day to Be Alive”

9) “You always had an eye for things that glittered / But I was far from being made of gold / I don’t know how that I scraped up the money / I just never could quite tell you no.” – Tim McGraw, “Just to See You Smile (I’d Do Anything That You Wanted Me To)”

8) “Back when a hoe was a hoe / Coke was a coke / And crack’s what you were doing / When you were cracking jokes / Back when a screw was a screw / The wind was all that blew / And when you said I’m down with that / Well it meant you had the flu / I miss back when.” –Tim McGraw, “Back When”

7) “Well I love her / But I love to fish.” –Brad Paisley, “I’m Gonna Miss Her”

6) “She only smokes when she drinks / She only drinks now and then.” –Joe Nichols, “She Only Smokes When She Drinks”

5) “She ain’t into wine and roses / Beer just makes her turn up her nose / And she can’t stand the thought of sippin’ champagne / No Cuervo Gold Margaritas / Just ain’t enough good burn in tequila / She needs something with a little more edge and a little more pain.” –Toby Keith, “Whiskey Girl”

4) “The party starts here, get in line / It’s beer thirty, a honky tonk time.” –Brooks & Dunn, “Beer Thirty”

3) “Now honey, I’m a Christian, but if you keep it up / I’m a-gonna go to kickin’ your pretty little butt.” –Gretchen Wilson, “Homewrecker”

2) “He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger / And finally drank away her memory.” –Brad Paisley, “Whiskey Lullaby”

1) “And you’ll be sorry that you messed with / The U.S. of A. / ’Cause we’ll put a boot in your ass / It’s the American way.” –Toby Keith, “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)”

­—David Zhou ’07 is the outgoing Books editor. He reps Nashville despite the fact that he hails from California.