Top Five All-Time Favorite Country Songs

I am not a country music fan. In fact, I never listen to it now. But when I was a child I was forced to listen to countless hours of it while I rode around in the car with my Mom and Dad. From those formative years, several songs are ingrained in my memory. I can still recite the chorus to most of these, and can sing almost the whole song on another. So here it goes, not in any particular order.

1) Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life - "End over end, neither left nor the right." I had to start with this Bobby Bare classic. Being a pastor, I had to start with a song with great spiritual content. There is absolutely no truth that the praise team is working on this for next week.

2) If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body - "Would You Hold it Against Me? If I swore you were an angel, would you treat me like the devil tonight?" I had to include another one with spiritual themes. Great song by the Bellamy Brothers.

3) Put Another Log on the Fire - "Cook me up some bacon and some beans, go out to the car and change the tires. Wash my socks and sew my old blue jeans. You can fill my pipe and then go fetch my slippers, and pour me up another pot of tea. Then put another log on the fire, babe, and come and tell me why you're leaving me." Glaser brother classic. Enough said.

4) Kawlijah - "Poor old Kawlijah, well he never got a kiss. Poor old Kawlijah he don't know what he missed." Originally done by Hank Williams (not junior), I am partial to the Charley Pride version.

5) Okay, so there are really only four country songs I really like.