Lyric sheets Martin Newell Recent American studies claim that country music can make its listeners suicidal

Country Comforts

The mine collapsed, Ah wasn't there

My dog jist died, Ah didn't care

Cos when Ah'd pawned the children's toys

Ah had t'fight those Gatlin' boys

There's three of them and Ah'm a wimp

Aside from that Ah've got this limp

Ah got it back in Vietnam

While doin' mah bit for Uncle Sam

A glance across the yard revealed

A crop still standing in the field

Ah watched the bourbon going down

While Ruby took her love to town

Ah sent her man mah best regards

And thanked him for the deck of cards

And as Ah cried into mah beer

The band played Crystal Chandelier

Then while Ah poised upon a bridge

The sheriff waved from Chocktaw Ridge

"Hold on there, son," is what he said

"Ah got bad news. Yer horse is dead

Yer farm was repossessed today

And little Scotty's run away

It looks like you'll be doin' time

Since suicide's a federal crime