Songs About Kickin’ Ass
I’m starting a series on The 9513 titled “Songs About” and then I’ll choose a topic and find as many country songs about that topic as I can. Today’s topic is “Kicking Ass.” Below are a few of the songs I came up with that are about kicking ass, and a couple of them even make you want to kick some ass of your own after hearing them.
Songs like “This Cowboy’s Hat” are about sticking up for what you believe in and not letting people trample on you, some of them are just story songs (“Pancho & Lefty” and “In Lonseome Dove”), and maybe others you can apply to your life, such as telling your boss to shove it. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the ass kickin’.
- “Pancho and Lefty” - Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard
- “This Cowboy’s Hat” - Chris Ledoux
- “Coward of the County” - Kenny Rogers
- “A Boy Named Sue” - Johnny Cash
- “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” - Charlie Daniels
- “Oney” - Johnny Cash
- “Big Iron” - Marty Robbins (Rhapsody doesn’t have the Marty Robbins version, so I substituted it with the Michael Martin Murphy version)
- “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue” - Toby Keith
- “The Fightin’ Side of Me” - Merle Haggard
- “Kick My Ass” - Big & Rich (not on Rhapsody)
- “In Lonesome Dove” - Garth Brooks (not on Rhapsody)
- “The Night I Called the Old Man Out” - Garth Brooks (not on Rhapsody)
- “Longhaired Redneck” - David Allan Coe
- “Up Against The Wall Redneck” - Jerry Jeff Walker
- “Take This Job and Shove It” - Johnny Paycheck
Click here to listen to these songs on Rhapsody.
What are some songs that you can think of that are about kicking ass?
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Big & Rich // Charlie Daniels // Chris Ledoux // David Allan Coe // Garth Brooks // Jerry Jeff Walker // Johnny Cash // Johnny Paycheck // Kenny Rogers // Marty Robbins // Merle Haggard // Michael Martin Murphy // Songs About // Willie Nelson
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January 7, 2007 at 8:20 pm Permalink
DO you have a “Songs that Inspire You” list? because that’s begging for one if you don’t.
January 7, 2007 at 8:21 pm Permalink
My bad…I guess I didn’t really read that it was your first until just two seconds ago.
January 8, 2007 at 10:11 am Permalink
It’s all good, I actually have quite a few of these lists started, but I don’t know if I want to continue the series, or make an eBook full of different playlists for different categories. Keeping this series alive would be easier, but creating the eBook would drive more traffic to the site. Decisions, decisions.
January 27, 2007 at 2:59 pm Permalink
Maybe you should do both…because I came to visit the 9513 today, JUST to see if you had a new list…lol
People complain that lists are cop outs for blogs, but in my experience it’s the lists that grab attention.
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