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The Carter Family

The 25 Best Country Songs About Death
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The 25 Best Country Songs About Death

By
Josh Friedberg
/ 26 October 2023

There is no genre with as rich a history of songs about many forms of death–by natural causes, murder, suicide, war, accidents, and so on–than country.

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Ben Child
/ 19 April 2012
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/ 4 February 2007
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Leigh H. Edwards
/ 10 November 2005
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