iPod Redux

Thanks to my gorgeous, easy-on-the-eyes, companiable, and oh-so-friendly iTouch (yes, I'm in love), I've been able to revisit songs I loved but almost forgot. Most of it's country--and no matter what anyone says about country, I think it has some of the prettiest, pull-out-your heart lyrics and melodies. Some old faves:

I dressed up and went out on the town, to places you'd never go. I always wondered what I'd do without you, Now I know.~Lari White

My love is deeper than the holler, stronger than the river, higher than the pine trees growing tall upon the hill, my love is purer than the snowflakes that fall in late December, and honest as a robin on a springtime windowsill and longer than the song of a whipporwill~Randy Travis

Saw your picture on a poster on a cafe out in Phoenix, Guess you're still the sweetheart of the rodeo. But as for me and little Casey, we still make the circuit, in a one-horse trailer and a mobile home. She still asks you about you all the time, and I guess we never even cross your mind. But then sometimes I think about you and the way you used to ride out, in your rhinestones and your sequins, with the sunlight on your hair. And oh the crowd would always love you, but as for me I've come to know, Everything that glitters is not gold~Dan Seals

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last~Counting Crows

Don't wanna be standing here, and I don't wanna be talking here, and I don't really care who's to blame. Cause if love won't fly on its own free will, it's gonna catch that outbound plane~Suzy Bogguss

She's says she's gonna leave me, momma, nothing on God's green earth will make her stay...But if I'm so much like my Dad, there must have been times you felt her way. So tell me word for word, what he said, that always made you stay~George Strait

I would have waited forever, if I'd known that you'd be here. We could have shared our lives together, and held each other close through all the years. But I met someone before you, and my heart just couldn't wait. So no matter how much I adore you, I've got to stand behind the promise that I made~Reba McIntyre