The first unambiguous usage to mean a country bumpkin wasn’t recorded until 1824. The usage meaning ‘large heavy shoe’ appeared in 1836 (a 20th century synonym is shit-kickers, which in the 1960s also became a synonym for both the ‘clodhopper’ bumpkin and the fool. If you have some funny hillbilly sayings or hillbilly slang you’d like to share with the rest of us then by all means please do so with the form below. If you enjoyed this page of hillbilly sayings and hillbilly expressions please pass it on to your friends on Facebook and Twitter. It’s easy to do just use the buttons at the bottom of the page.
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'Country Bumpkin' | ||||
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Single by Cal Smith | ||||
from the album Country Bumpkin | ||||
B-side | 'It's Not the Miles You've Traveled' | |||
Released | February 1974 | |||
Format | 7' | |||
Recorded | December 21, 1973 Bradley's Barn, Mount Juliet, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:39 | |||
Label | MCA Records40191 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Don Wayne | |||
Producer(s) | Walter Haynes | |||
Cal Smith singles chronology | ||||
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'Country Bumpkin' is a 1974 single by Cal Smith. 'Country Bumpkin' was Cal Smith's second number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of ten weeks on the country chart.[1]
In 1974, 'Country Bumpkin' received Song of the Year Awards from both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association.
The song has three verses:
- In the first a rural gentleman walks into a bar, where one of the barroom girls refers to him as a 'country bumpkin' (a common nickname for a person from a rural area) as she talks to him.
- The second verse discusses the woman (now married to the man) giving birth to her (only) son a year later.
- The third verse discusses her impending death 40 years later, with her husband and son present at her bedside.
Chart performance[edit]
Chart (1974) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 2 |
References[edit]
- ^Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 317.
External links[edit]
- Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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