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• "Friends in Low Places". If you don't find yourself singing along near the end...
  • Hell, pretty much all of Garth Brooks hits qualifies for this trope!
• Try George Strait. "Amarillo by Morning" and "I Can Still Make Cheyenne" are considered two of the best modern cowboy songs ever. And the former was originally someone else's song.
  • Don't forget "Clear Blue Sky".
  • Pretty much anything sung by George Strait is a CMoA. There are very few exceptions and even those exceptions are somewhat awesome.
• Speaking of Georges, there's also "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones, which often tops polls as the best country song ever.
• Johnny Cash. "Ring of Fire" is his most well-known, but some other gems can be found: "The Man Comes Around" and his cover of "Sam Hall" from American IV are amongst the least tragic on the album, while his cover of "Danny Boy" can move you to tears.
  • When Johnny Cash covered NIN's "Hurt", Trent Reznor said this:

I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore.

• Reba McEntire's "Consider Me Gone" is BAMF in an Awesome sandwich.
  • Reba HERSELF is BAMF in an Awesome sandwich.
• "And just when I thought it couldn't get no hotter...I caught a glimpse of the farmer's daughter!" (Rodney Atkins)
• When it rains, I don't mind being lonely...
• Martina McBride's "Happy Girl". Actually pretty much anything by Martina McBride up to her Emotion album.
  • Special mention needs to go to the sheer power and anger in "Independence Day", a song about a woman driven to the breaking point by her abusive husband, with lines like "Now I ain't sayin' it's right or it's wrong, but maybe it's the only way / Talk about your revolution - it's Independence Day," and "Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning / Let the weak be strong / Let the right be wrong / Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay / It's Independence Day."
• "The House that Built Me". Enough said.
• "Ghost Riders In The Sky". No seriously, "Ghost Riders In The Sky".
• Pretty much all of Johnny Reid's stuff, but especially "Let's Go Higher" and "Old Flame".
• "Riding With Private Malone" by Wood Newton and Thom Shepherd, and recorded by American country music artist David Ball.
• "God Bless the U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood. It managed to restore faith in the U.S. after the tragedy of the Vietnam War.
• "He said, 'I wanna see you again...But I'm stuck in colder weather...'"
• Did anyone else know Jennette McCurdy could sing? "Not That Far Away" Is a hell of a lot better than anything else any Disney or Nickelodeon stars have ever put out.
  • Let's not forget her vibrant, hopeful defiance of the common stereotypes of young people today, concluding with, "...or maybe they'll call us Generation Love."
• At the end of the song it lists song which are CMOAs:
  • "He Stopped Loving Her Today"/"Hello Darlin'"/"God Bless the USA"/"Amarillo by Morning"/"Stand by your Man"/"Take Me Home"/"I Walk the Line"/"Country Boy Can Survive".
• "Till Summer Comes Around" by Keith Urban. It's more country/pop, but it's definitely heartwarming and maybe a bit of a Tear Jerker.
• The very underrated Lee Clayton brings us "I Ride Alone".
• "The Devil Went Down to Georgia". It's about a man named Johnny in a fiddle match with the devil. And winning. And Calling The Devil a son of a bitch. All in one enormous Ear Worm.
  • To say nothing of the sequel, "The Devil Comes Back To Georgia", featuring a picture perfect "The Reason You Suck" Speech, one of the best violin solos, one hell of a Truck Driver's Gear Change, and Johnny Cash.
• "Rocky Mountain High" by John Denver.
• Eric Church has some good songs, including "Homeboy", "Drink in my Hand", and especially "Springsteen".
• "The Gambler", just, "The Gambler".
• Admittedly, Country is something of an acquired taste for most, but Corb Lund's "Horse Soldier" is pretty damned cool, as is "I Wanna Be In The Cavalry".

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