Saddest Song Ever - "He Stopped Loving Her Today" - George Jones
 

He said I'll love you 'til I die
She told him you'll forget in time
As the years went slowly by
She still preyed upon his mind

He kept her picture on his wall
Went half crazy now and then
He still loved her through it all
Hoping she'd come back again

Kept some letters by his bed
Dated 1962
He had underlined in red
Every single I love you

I went to see him just today
Oh but I didn't see no tears
All dressed up to go away
First time I'd seen him smile in years

(Chorus)
He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

(Spoken)
You know she came to see him one last time
Oh and we all wondered if she would
And it kept running through my mind
This time he's over her for good

(Repeat Chorus)

Every time I hear this song it chokes me up.

This is the part that gets me...
"He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away"

Never heard of it, i'll check it out

Never heard it either, but those lyrics are killer. Will check it.

Classic song, and yes one of the saddest. Used to love playing this song out back in the day.

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" is a great cryin in your beer song and one of my favorite The Possum aka No Show Jones songs along with "The Race is On", "She Thinks I Still Care" and "White Lightning".

Ok be a man and make a Mikey Loves Country gif already... :winkwink: I have hope for you yet. :thumbsup:winkwink:

No show jones is the best country singer to ever live! Suprising people on here like him

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Yeah, that one always gets to me. Thankfully I don't hear it that often.

I love good old fashioned shitkicker country
George Jones, Willie Nelson, Hank Snow, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard, Ricky Horton, Tom T Hall, etc.

I have no problems putting it in rotation alongside SLAYER, Napalm Death, Obituary, etc.

It's more bittersweet than sad, but another great country tune is Lyle Lovett's "Family Reserve":

When I saw the ambulance
Screaming down Main Street
I didn't give it a thought
But it was my Uncle Eugene
He died on October the second 1981

And my Uncle Wilbert
They all called him Skinner
They said for his younger ways
He'd get drunk in the morning
And show me the rolls of fifties and hundreds
He kept in the glove box of his old gray Impala

And we're all gonna be here forever
So Mama don't you make such a stir
Now put down that camera
And come on and join up
The last of the family reserve

Now my second cousin
His name was Callaway
He died when he'd barely turned two
It was peanut butter and jelly that did it
The help she didn't know what to do
She just stood there and watched him turn blue

And we're all gonna be here forever
So Mama don't you make such a stir
Just put down that camera
And come on and join up
The last of the family reserve

And my friend Brian Temple
He thought he could make it
So from the third story he jumped
He missed the swimming pool
Only by inches
And everyone said he was drunk

Now there was great Uncle Julius
And Aunt Annie Mueller
And Mary and Granddaddy Paul
And there was Hanna and Ella
And Alvin and Alec
He owned his own funeral hall

And there are more I remember
And more I could mention
Than words I could write in a song
But I feel them watching
And I see them laughing
And I hear them singing along

We're all gonna be here forever
So Mama don't you make such a stir
Just put down that camera
And come on and join up
The last of the family reserve


Heh -- until looking it up just now, I always thought the one line in the chorus was "put down that candle...." I must admit that I kinda like that better than the actual line.