Comments on: Friday Five (or Six): Burial Instructions

By: luckyoldsun

luckyoldsun — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:59:25 +0000

Wade Hayes’ debut album “Old Enough To Know Better” had a great cut near the end called “Family Reunion” about a son who tracks down the corpse of his no-good father and brings it home to bury it next to the wife he abandoned decades before. The sone was sort of like “A Boy Named Sue” except that Daddy was already dead.

And Doug Supernaw had a great song on his debut album called “Honky Tonkin’ Fool” whose chorus had the key lines:

“Roll away my tombstone and put this jukebox in its place,
And make damn sure ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart’ is the only song it plays,
I don’t need no stone with fancy words,
This jukebox would be cool,
As a perfect final tribute to a honky tonkin’ fool.”

There’s a burial instruction for you!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:07:05 +0000

…does “being better off in a pine box on freight train back to georgia” count a as burial instruction? doug stone might have felt that way.

By: Mayor JoBob

Mayor JoBob — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:16:09 +0000

Actually Rick, in Randy Travis’ song, he tells them to “bury me under mama’s apple tree”

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:51:15 +0000

Altough burial is not in the title, my vote goes to Doug Supernaw’s “Honky Tonkin’ Fool” about a friend who wanted a jukebox set up as his headstone that can only play “Your Cheatin’ Heart”. What a great, traditional style country song.

As for transport to the gravesite, I’ll take the Randy Travis song “Take My Body Home On a Freight Train”. Come to think of it “Green, Green Grass of Home” is about burial instructions…

By: t.scott

t.scott — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:04:22 +0000

Obviously the title of the song needed the word “bury “in it.

BUT “Rockabilly Funeral” is pretty cool,

By: the Colonel

the Colonel — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:20:18 +0000

Another great one is “Ten Miles Deep” by the Randy Rogers Band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA-ppXdmcjw

By: Wade

Wade — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:54:27 +0000

“Last Two Tens”- Porter Wagoner

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:08:17 +0000

I LOVE THE FRIDAY FIVE!

I do something similar- I have a country music radio show in Scotland with a weekly theme. I’d love to see your take on my past themes, so here are my Friday five requests:

overly-religious country
songs about trucks
songs about angry southern women
songs about outlaws
songs about fried food

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:14:29 +0000

No, that #1 is exactly right; that song was way old when the Carters cut it, and it’s still got legs.

By: Ken Morton, Jr.

Ken Morton, Jr. — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:13:00 +0000

Juli, very nice list. I’d throw out there the sad “Whiskey Lullaby” by Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss.
“We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby”