ROOTS of Country Music

 Cheating Songs: Who’s Cheating Who?

If Will Rogers had been a country fan, he'd probably have amended one of his most famous quips to say that nothing is certain but death, taxes and cheating songs. Just like trains and booze, songs about sleeping around have long been a staple of country music.

Earl Thomas took Holding Her and Loving You to the top of the country charts in 1983. I just love this song. It gets to your heart. Somehow it plays and feels like a love song with its Nice Romantic Style. 

Barbara Mandrell was the first performer and the first female to win the Country Music Association's (CMA) "Entertainer of the Year" (1980, 1981) award twice. She also won the "Female Vocalist of the Year" (1979, 1981) twice. Married, But Not to Each Other, helped usher in these awards. 

1. Blanket On the Ground (Billie Jo Spears)
2. Carroll County Accident (Porter Wagoner)
3. Cheated Too (Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper)
4. Cheater’s Kit (Tommy Overstreet)
5. Cheater’s Prayer (Kendlls)
6. Cheater’s Trap (John Wesley Ryles)
7. Cheatin’is (Barbara Fairchild)
8. Cheatin’is Still on My Mind (Cristy Lane)
9. Cheatin’on a Cheater (Loretta Lynn)
10. Cheatin’Overtime (Mary Lou Turner)
11. Cheatin’Turns Her on (David Wills)
12. Cheatin’s a Sin (Kitty Wells)
13. Cheatin’s a Two Way Street (Sammi Smith)
14. Cheating Game (Susan Raye)
15. Cold Hard Facts of Life (Porter Wagoner)
16. Day Time Friends and Night Time Lovers (Kenny Rogers)
17. Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger (Charlie Pride)
18. Don’t Cheat In Our Hometown (Ricky Skaggs)
19. Don’t Rob Another Man’s Castle (Ernest Tubb)
20. FistCity(Loretta Lynn)
21. Help Me Make it Through the Night (Sammi Smith)
22. Holding Her and Loving You (Earl Thomas Conley)
23. I Cheated Me Right Out of You (Moe Bandy)
24. I  Didn’t Jump th Fence (Red Sovine)
25. If a Woman Answers (Hang Up the Phone) Leroy Van Dyke
26. I’m Gonna Hire Me a Wino (David Frizzell)
27. It Wasn’t God Who made Honky Tonk Angels (Kitty Wells)
28. It’s a Cheating Situation (Moe Bandy)
29. Jolene (Dolly Parton)
30. Love in the Hot Afternoon (Gene Watson)
31. Love is No Excuse (Jim Reeves)
32. Margie’s at the Lincoln Park Inn (Bobby Bare)
33. Married, But Not to Each Other (Barbara Mandrell)
34. Motel Time Again (Johnny Paycheck)
35. Oh What It Did to Me (Tanya Tucker)
36. Radio Lover (George Jones)
37. She’s Not Really Cheatin’ (Moe Bandy)
38. Send Me Down toTucson
39. She Even Woke Me Up to say Goodbye (Jerry Lee L.)
40. She Just Started Liking Cheating Songs (John Anderson)
41. Slippin’ Around (Jimmy Wakely)
42. Steelin' Feelin' (Mike Lunsford)
43. Stranger in My House (Ronnie Milsap)
44. The Midnight Oil (Barbara Mandrell)
45. The Pay Phone (Bob Luman)
46. The Wild Side of Life (Hank Thompson)
47. There’s Another Woman (Joe Stampley)
48. Third Rate Romance (Sammy Kerschall)
49. Trying to Love Two Women (Oak RidgeBoys)
50. When Whoever InNew England(Reba McEntire)
51. Who’s Cheating Who (Charly McClain)
52. Who’s Julie (Mel Tillis)
53. Window Up Above (George Jones)
54. Woman of the World (Loretta Lynn)
55. You Ain’t Woman Enough to Take My Man (Loretta Lynn)
56. Your Cheatin’’ Heart (Hank Williams)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Researched, compiled and written by Richard Bell, Roots of Country Music, Nov. 10, 2009.