8. Famous in a Small Town-Miranda Lambert
I’ve always loved this song, and the main chorus has a lot of truth built into it. The line, “Everybody dies famous in a small town,” is spot on. Everyone knows about everyone, so when that fateful time comes, the person will be a celebrity as everyone shares memories and stories about that famous small town person.
7. Hicktown-Jason Aldean
Although I do not consider myself or most of my fellow ‘Odelliens' to be hicks, this song does a great job of describing small town life. My particular favorite line is, “Girls are getting pretty, spraying on their Whiterain, they’re gonna get a little rowdy tonight down at the football game.” Yes, Friday night football games are something you get ‘pretty’ for as a high school girl, because it is usually the main event of the entire weekend. Coincidentally, the cheerleaders at my high school (although I was not one) had two cheers about getting ‘rowdy’.
6. Small Town Southern Man-Alan Jackson
This song hold a special spot in my heart, because it describes the life of my dad (who although absolutely hates country music) to a tee. Listen to the song’s lyrics, this is what matches up exactly with my dad: He was born the son of a farmer and a small town man, he was brought up working on the land, he fell in love with a small town woman (my mother, they were Odell High School sweethearts), they married and settled down, first they had four daughters (I have 2 older sisters and 1 younger sister), then a few years later came another, a boy (my brother Korey), he wasn’t planned. Seven people living together in house that was built with his own hands (my dad owns a construction business, and built the addition on our house). So as you can see it’s almost like this song is a biography of my father’s life.
5. Tattoos on this Town-Jason Aldean
“There ain't a corner of this hallow ground, That we ain't laughed or cried on. It's where we loved, lived and learned real life stuff. It's everything we're made of. It sure left its mark on us, we sure left our mark on it. We let the world know we were here with everything we did. We laid a lot of memories down, like tattoos on this town.” I love these lyrics, it describes where and how me and my friends grew up. My class actually wanted to use this song for our high school graduation.
4. Water Tower Town-Scotty McCreery
Everything that is said in this song is the absolute truth about Odell. I don’t even need to explain the lyrics because if you listen, everything is spot-on (minus the sweet tea, I think that's a southern thing, everyone just favors iced tea around here).
3. Small Town USA-Justin Moore
2 things about this song--The first verse of this song reminds me of myself my senior year of high school. Some of my classmates couldn’t take being stuck in our small town anymore, but I personally wasn’t ready to leave, it was what I loved. Secondly, the contrast that is shown in the chorus is perfect—we go out on Saturday nights, but on Sundays you can bet your last dollar we will be seated in church right along with our parents.
2. Merry Go 'Round-Kacey Musgraves
These lyrics are sadly perfect. Although I love small town life, these lyrics remind me that everything isn’t always perfect.
1. We Rode In Trucks-Luke Bryan
Here my friends, we see perfection in lyrics. Everything about it reminds me of growing up in Odell and this is the one song that makes me want to go home more than any other when I’m away at college. Plus the first line is the title to my last post, so it obviously fits in perfectly with my thoughts.
This could totally be the scene for a music video to one of these songs right??
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