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Kenny Rogers – Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town
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Annotations can be found in Kenny Rogers and the First Edition’s original version – here
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Kenny Rogers & The First Edition – Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
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A Vietnam-era raw and emotion provoking song written by Mel Tillis (himself not a stranger to disability, suffering from stuttering all his life) about a handicapped soldier’s
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Mel Tillis – Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town
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You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair / Ruby are you contemplating goin' out somewhere / The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down / Oh
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Kenny Rogers – All God’s Lonely Children
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A little baby's born, daddy's up and gone / You see his mama cry / Don't you turn away, she's needing you today / To help her dry her eyes / All God's lovely children / Sometimes
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Kenny Rogers & The First Edition – Sunshine
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Sunshine, you may find my window / But you won't find me / And sunshine, I've got my friend of darkness here / Tonight to hide me / So sunshine, as far as I'm concerned / I'm where
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Kenny Rogers – Lady
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“Lady” is a song from Kenny Rogers' 1980 Greatest Hits compilation album. It was written & produced by Lionel Richie.
The song topped the Hot 100, Hot Country Singles and Adult
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Kenny Rogers & The First Edition – Once Again She's All Alone
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I told her it was over / I would never leave again / My big time plans had fallen through and this tour will be the end / Then the local DJ played our record on the radio / Once
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Kenny Rogers – Reuben James
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[Verse 1] / Reuben James, in my song you live again / And the phrases that I rhyme are just a footstep out of time / From the time when I knew you, Reuben James / [Verse 2
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Kenny Rogers – Calico Silver
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No rain and the weather got warm / Broke down and I sold my farm / Headed for the silver strike / I took my wife, Calico silver gave us life / You could hear the miners sing / When
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Kenny Rogers – Me & Bobby McGee
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Busted flat it Baton Rouge, headin' for the trains / Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans / Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained / Took us all the way to New Orleans / I
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Kenny Rogers – For the Good Times
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Don't look so sad, I know it's over / But life goes on / And this old world just keeps on turning / Let's just be glad, we had this time / To spend together / There's no need to
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SiriusXM – Top 1000 Country Songs of All Time (2022)
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1000. Alan Jackson - Country Boy / 999. Greater Bakersfield Show Interview (w/ Dwight Yoakam & Dave Alvin) / 998. The Oak Ridge Boys - Trying To Love Two Women / 997. Chris Cagle
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Kenny Rogers – Ticket to Nowhere
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The train is comin' at 6:05 / And I'll be gettin' on it to take a long ride / Back to an apartment so empty inside / With loneliness the only thing that's waiting / I bought my
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Kenny Rogers – Something's Burning
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[Verse 1] / You lie in gentle sleep beside me / I hear your warm and rhythmic breathing / I take your hand and hold it tightly / Listen, can you not hear our young hearts beating
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Kenny Rogers – We All Got to Help Each Other
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We all got to help each other if we're gonna get by / We all got to help each other if we're gonna get by / See the child out on the street / Ragged clothes and just bare feet / We
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Kenny Rogers – My Washington Woman
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The wages of an unskilled working man never paid enough / From time to time the nickel race keeps him from giving up / The blue collared man in Seattle never lives on white
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Kenny Rogers – Tell It All Brother
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Tell it all brother, before we fall / Tell it all brothers and sisters / Tell it all / How much you're holding back on me / When you say you're giving all? / And in the dungeons of
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Kenny Rogers & Sheena Easton – We've Got Tonight
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[Verse 1: Kenny Rogers] / I know it's late / I know you're weary / I know your plans don't include me / Still here we are / Both of us lonely / Longing for shelter from all that we
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The 50 Best Country Songs of All Time
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This thread is a discussion on building a Country Genius list page on what we think are the 50 best country songs of all time.
Please submit your song titles, and include the artist name and your first cut at its rank order on the the list. This effort will take us some time, so be patient. We’ll periodically include a list-in-progress to make it easier to comment.
For starters, just give us your best candidates.
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Kenny Rogers – Heed the Call
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Have you been listening, (Listen to the music) / Have you been sleeping (The sermon's in the music) / (The man standing next to you, he must surely be your brother) / (So brother
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Kenny Rogers – Love the World Away
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Love the World Away was featured on the soundtrack to the 1980 film “Urban Cowboy”.
The song peaked at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart
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Kenny Rogers – Shine on Ruby Mountain
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Shine on Ruby mountain / From the valley to the sea / Shine on Ruby mountain / Shine your sweet love down on me / Ruby mountain has a sunset when my baby comes around / I believe
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Kenny Rogers – Scarlet Fever
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I stood outside the Lucky Star / Staring at the flashing sign / It read: come on in and watch young / Scarlet's body come alive / Let her dance for you and cast her spell / You'll
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Country Genius – The 100 Best Country Songs Of All Time
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This ranking of country songs represents the opinions of the Genius country music com-munity. But what exactly does “best” mean? Unlike a list of best selling songs, this list is
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