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Upbeat Songs With Depressing Lyrics, Kenny Rogers
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Kenny Rogers', "Lucille"
The Lyrics:
You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille!
Four hungry children and a crop in the field.
Four hungry children and a crop in the field.
Why:
The melody to the song, especially to these words of the chorus, is a lilting one that could be at home in anything from a joyful hymn to the music played by a carnival ride. But the song is about meeting, in a bar, a woman who ran out on her husband, and then meeting her husband, who, with the words of this chorus, laments her leaving him.
Submitted by: Mercedes Morgan
Kenny Rogers', "Ruby (Don't Take Your Love To Town)"
The Lyrics:
She's leaving now cause I just heard the slamming of the door,
Just the way I know I've heard it slam a hundred times before.
If I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground.
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town.
Just the way I know I've heard it slam a hundred times before.
If I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground.
Oh Ruby, don't take your love to town.
Why:
The tune has a cadence reminiscent of many a happy traveling song that might be about one sailing down a highway with a free wind blowing through one's hair. But the lyrics are another thing entirely. They are the lament off a paralyzed Vietman veteran who is observing his wife stepping out on him like many times before, and there is nothing he can do about it but lie in his bed helplessly.
Submitted by: Karen Smith
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