Five Country Songs Guaranteed To Make You Cry

Whether or not you're a fan of country music, one thing is for sure: country music singers know how to play on the emotions of even the most cynical among us. Here are five songs that will bring you to tears, no matter how hard to try and resist it.

First up is "Concrete Angel" by Martina McBride and it's the song of an abused young girl who is eventually killed by her mother. Since this is country music, there is a slightly upbeat ending to the video, but man, it's tough getting through the rest of it.



Tim McGraw's hit "If You're Reading This" is a song about a letter received by a woman informing her that her husband has been killed overseas. While the song itself is heartbreaking, it's extremely difficult to watch any of the scores of YouTube videos that have been posted with audio of the song combined with photos of real families dealing with the death of their hero. I picked one randomly, but there are hundreds of examples that would be just as tough to watch.



Country music has a reputation among some hipsters as being nothing but songs about drinking, dogs and pickup trucks. Lee Brice's "I Drive Your Truck" is about a pickup truck. But it's about a son who drives his late dad's truck whenever he misses him. It's a touching song that shows that even the most obvious cliche can be turned on its head by a talented songwriter.



Speaking of fathers, Darryl Worley's "If Something Should Happen" is a song about a dad who learns he is probably going to die. He asks his best friend to watch over his wife and son if he passes, and it's impossible to listen to the song and not think about how you would handle the same news.



Country music has always had its sad side, so let's end this with an old school tune from Kathy Mattea. "Where've You've Been" was inspired by a set of elderly grandparents who were living in the nursing home, although they didn't know it. Then one day the nurses wheeled her husband in and for the first time in months his wife speaks and asks him where he's been. It's a song guaranteed to break the heart of anyone who has dealt with a family member suffering with Alzheimer's.