In country music, it’s less about the Benjamins (baby), more about having just enough in small bills and change to get by. If you manage to pay your bills and keep five dollars in hand for a wild Saturday night, you’re living large. When a guy dies owing you 40 bucks, it throws off your financial plan for the whole year.
Here are some of our favorite country songs about money matters.
1. Wynn Stewart – Another Day, Another Dollar
2. Chris Knight – Another Dollar
3. Tom T. Hall – Ballad of Forty Dollars
4. Billy Joe Shaver – Bottom Dollar
5. Jamey Johnson – The Dollar
6. Ted Russell Kamp – If I Had A Dollar
7. Faron Young – I’ve Got Five Dollars and It’s Saturday Night
8. Tim McGraw – Last Dollar (Fly Away)
9. Rebecca Lynn Howard – Life of a Dollar
10. Gillian Welch – One More Dollar
11. Emmylou Harris – Queen of the Silver Dollar
12. The Delmore Brothers – Silver Dollar
13. Shawn Camp – The Tune of the Twenty Dollar Bill
14. Chris LeDoux – Workin’ Man’s Dollar
15. Corb Lund – Five Dollar Bill
16. Townes Van Zandt – Dollar Bill Blues
17. Stringbean – Give Me Back My Five Dollars
18. Steve Gulley & Tim Stafford – Sixteen Cents
19. Ricky Skaggs – I Had But 50 Cents
20. Chris Wall – Ten Cents on the Dollar
See also:
Hoyt Axton – Greenback Dollar
Eddie Rabbitt – Two Dollars in the Jukebox
Walt Wilkins – Somedays A Dollar
Bleu Edmonson – 50 Dollars & a Flask of Crown
Owen Temple – Dollars and Dimes
The Infamous Stringdusters – 17 Cents
The Wilkinsons – 26 Cents
Porter Wagoner – Eleven Cent Cotton
Norman Blake – Give Me Back My Fifteen Cents
John Michael Montgomery – A Few Cents Short
Sonia Leigh – My Name is Money
Chris LeDoux – Working Man’s Dollar
Chris LeDoux – Five Dollar Fine
Ryan Bingham – Dollar A Day
I guess I’ll had my (groan) two cents…
Doug Stone’s “Addicted to a Dollar” and The Wilkinson’s “26 Cents”.
*add
Nanci Griffith – “Money Changes Everything”
Jason Eady – When the Money’s All Gone, Marty Stuart – Too Much Month at the End of the Money
Good choices all around. Thanks for the participation!*
I stuck to songs that specifically mention dollars or cents, but if we’re doing money in general, “If You’ve Got the Money (I’ve Got the Time)” must be mentioned as well.
* Usually, as soon as you say that, it stops.
Bleu Edmonson – 50 Dollars & a Flask of Crown?????
let’s get this shit right okay? this is a Matt Powell song. NOT a blew song.
and maybe “Three Dimes Down” by Mike Cooley of the Drive-By Truckers
Bobby Bare “Two for a Dollar”
Does Shaver’s ‘Old Five & Dimers Like Me” count?
Don’t forget the old bluegrass song that seems to be the basis of Obama’s economic policies “If I Lose”! Obama changed the words slightly to “If I lose a hundred dollars while I’m trying to win a dime, my treasury it’s got money all the time”!
I would have selected Joey+Rory’s version of “To The Tune of a $ 20 Bill” just because Joey is a lot nicer to look at than Shawn Camp!
Tha fact Jamey Johnson’s “the Dollar” didn’t become a country radio hit proved to me in the mid 2000′s that AirHead Country Radio was past the point of redemption. Now the stalling of Sunny Sweeney’s “Drink Myself Single” at # 40 on the Mediabase charts confirms it yet again. Just pathetic…