The country music of the '50s is steeped in Americana and tells the story of ordinary, hardworking people. Classic country songs such as these have paved the way for more current artists.
In this quiz, you get a few lines from a 1950s country hit. Can you identify the song title? Take the quiz challenge now!
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Can You Name These 1950s Country Songs from Their Lyrics? Quiz Questions
I walk for miles along the highway. Well, that's just my way of sayin' I love you. I'm always walkin' after midnight. Searchin' for you.
Bye Bye Love
Bird Dog
Walkin' After Midnight
I tried so hard my dear to show that you're my every dream. Yet you're afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme.
Cold, Cold Heart
Take These Chains From My Heart
Love Letters in the Sand
Now blue ain't the world for the way that I feel. And the storm's brewing in this heart of mine.
I Fall to Pieces
Crazy Arms
I Forgot To Remember To Forget
Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Just pretend that we're together all alone.
Cattle Call
Moanin' the Blues
He'll Have to Go
As I sit here tonight the jukebox playing. The tune about the wild side of life. As I listen to the words you are saying. It brings memories when I was a trusting wife.
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Peter Cottontail
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell. It's down at the end of lonely street. At Heartbreak Hotel.
Guess Things Happen That Way
Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Heartbreak Hotel
That big eight wheeler rollin' down the track. Means your true lovin' Daddy ain't commin' back. Because I'm Movin' On. I'll soon be gone
Mystery Train
I'm Movin' On
A Satisfied Mind
In 1814 we took a little trip. Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississippi. We took a little bacon and we took a little beans. And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.
The Battle of New Orleans
Wake Up Little Susie
I Can't Stop Loving You
Some people say a man is made outta mud. A poor man's made outta muscle and blood. Muscle and blood and skin and bones. A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong.
Shotgun Boogie
Sixteen Tons
Teddy Bear
Well, in the North of Carolina, way back in the hills. Me and my old pappy and he had him a still. He brewed white lightnin' till the sun went down.
And then you'd fill him a jug and he'd pass it around.
Folsom Prison Blues
I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
White Lightning
I hear the train a comin'. It's rolling round the bend. And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when.
I'm Sorry
Don't Cry Daddy
Folsom Prison Blues
I can make you mine. Taste your lips of wine. Anytime night or day. Only trouble is. Gee whiz. I'm dreamin' my life away.
Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
All I Have to Do Is Dream
You Win Again
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain. Too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, oh what a thrill.
Great Balls of Fire
Peter Cottontail
Hey Good Lookin'
A well I bless my soul. What's wrong with me? I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree. My friends say I'm actin' wild as a bug.
