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Top 200 Country songs from Rolling Stone Country.

Did your favorite make the top ten? Rolling Stone Country just named the best 200 country songs of all time. These types of lists always get people talking.

 

Here’s the top ten:

 

1. “Jolene” by Dolly Parton (1973).

2. “I Walk the Line” by Johnny Cash (1956).

3. “Crazy” by Patsy Cline (1961).

4. “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” by Hank Williams (1949).

5. “He Stopped Loving Her Today” by George Jones (1980).

6. “You Don’t Know Me” by Ray Charles (1962).

7. “Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel #9)” by Jimmie Rodgers (1930).

8. “Stand by Your Man” by Tammy Wynette (1968).

9. “Mama Tried” by Merle Haggard (1968).

10. “Amarillo by Morning” by George Strait (1982)

 

For the full Top 200 CLICK HERE.

 

 

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