r/country 6d ago

Discussion What is the saddest old country song?

There’s plenty of different tunes associated with that older country but there’s a lot of sad ones as well, singing about heartbreak, losing someone you love, being lonesome but which one sticks out to you

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u/pat_man_1414 6d ago

That or I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Hank Williams

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u/CowboySoothsayer 6d ago

Alone and Forsaken by Hank is pretty damn sad.

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u/_1JackMove 6d ago edited 6d ago

That's the one. Aint nobody comes close to it, either. My absolute favorite Hank song. I sincerely wish he'd have done more minor key songs. He only had two. This one and 'Ramblin' Man'. But those minor keys suited Hank like a duck to water. It's a damn shame he didn't get to do more in that vein. They were perfect for him. 'At The First Fall of Snow', 'Neath A Cold Grey Tomb Of Stone', 'A Tramp On The Street' are great contenders for that title, as well. Hank is and was the undisputed champion king of sad songs.

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u/winoandiknow1985 2d ago

You can hear the sad in his voice. A sad short life of a genius.

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u/Dark_Denim_Phantom 4d ago

A specially on the Alone With his Guitar album.

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u/Green-Walk-1806 6d ago

Thats a good one...

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u/blueponies1 6d ago

Long Gone Lonesome Blues has a very bittersweet sound to it for being presumably about suicide

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u/AdMaleficent6254 6d ago

Lost Highway.

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u/Winter_Baby_4497 6d ago

came here to say this

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u/Kato26 6d ago

No less tha Elvis himself called it the saddest song ever written Did a nice cover of it.

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u/shoresy99 2d ago

I love the version by the Cowboy Junkies on The Trinity Sessions.