154 Country Songs That Ask a Question in the Title

Song titles can be ambiguous or crisply descriptive. They can be brief or unwieldy. However, the ones that often tend to get remembered the best are those that ask a question, especially if the question is unusual, funny, or mirrored in the song's hook. Country songs are replete with song titles that pose questions. How many of these songs can you name? Hold on to your cowboy hat because we look at a long list of country tunes with questions in their titles.

In this fun country ditty, a shy guy tries to find the nerve to express his attraction for the girl he loves. Rather than waiting for him to muster the courage, she takes the lead by asking him, "Are you gonna kiss me or not?" The young woman teases him that if he doesn't make his move, he's going to miss his shot. As their love story progresses through engagement and a marriage ceremony, the gal continues to be the one who prods her man along with this question. Somebody had to make a move!

Broken hearts are supposed to hurt. That's how you can tell the healing has begun. However, this song explores the difficulty of being emotionally stuck, unable to wade through the pain to the other side, where an equally fulfilling love relationship awaits.

The narrators hope they can meet someone new and mend an ailing heart. Unfortunately, they keep coming back to the question, "What if I never get over you?" As they run through several what-ifs, it becomes clear that they have unfinished business with one another:

What if I never get over ... ?
What if I never get closure?
What if I never get back all the wasted words I told you?
What if it never gets better?
What if this lasts forever and ever and ever?

Sometimes you need to set pride aside and run back after the one you love. Decide what's truly in your heart, then go for it!

One part funny, one part sleaze factor, this country hit features a narrator talking to his sexy young love interest. Because he's a man with both means and hormonal needs and she's a lonely woman down on her luck, the narrator suggests a "sugar daddy" arrangement with the question, "Who's your daddy?" He's tired of having her string him along as a back-up lover, only turning to him when there's trouble in her love life with her college boyfriends.

This country power ballad became a mainstream crossover hit. The narrators are two lovers struggling with the challenge of finding a romantic connection and making it work. The couple is reluctant to move too quickly in their fledgling relationship. However, after a magic goodbye kiss, they share a tantalizing invitation to move their romance to the next level with an all-night spooning and sleepover session.

Who could possibly forget their whereabouts and what they were doing on that fateful September day in 2001 when terror struck American soil? This country-pop crossover tune poignantly captures the pain, disbelief, and anger felt by all of those who watched helplessly as the plane struck the Twin Towers.

The song describes people's attempts to cope and process the deep and graphic losses incurred by our country as we struggled to make sense of the event. I'll never forget the images of people holding hands and jumping to their deaths. Nearly 3,000 innocent lives were lost that day. Alan Jackson wrote the song based on his own heart-wrenching reactions to 9/11. He won his first Grammy Award for this hit song.

The humorous pick-up line in this country-pop crossover song is based on an old Groucho Marx quote. The lyrics center around a silver-tongued devil who prefers to skip the small talk and instead say what's on his oversexed mind. I've always wondered what the lady's reaction was. Did his forward approach work, or did he get slapped instead?

Those who grew up in a small town understand wanting to run for the county line once they are on their own. Such young people assume they'll keep going and never look back.

After spending 20 years in his hometown, the guy in this country song wanted to explore the world, seeking new adventures with new people far from home. Then he surprised himself by wanting to return to the place where he was known and accepted as a card-carrying member of the local community. "Who says you can't go home?" he asks.

In this 2005 country ditty, Tim McGraw is a middle-aged adult working fast food. He serves up hamburgers with a side of hard-earned bitterness. The narrator is confronted at the drive-thru window with the new man in his ex-wife's life. Right or wrong, he blames his replacement for all his troubles.

Unfortunately, the narrator is consigned to live in a tent and work two jobs so he can send support checks to his ex and feed himself. Stuck with serving fast food to his wife's new dude, all he can do is conjure up wishes of illness and bad luck.

One thing I really loved about country music of the 1980s was the double entendres. The man in this classic ditty uses a question that can be taken two ways: religiously or sexually.

At age 10, he first encounters a river baptism which should help get him into the spiritual afterlife. Then he describes a high school dance and engaging in a heavenly first-time experience with a girlfriend. Finally, as an adult, the hears the suggestive question from a woman at the bar as she proposes a one-night stand:

She said, "Do you wanna go to heaven?"
And I said, "Yeah, just lead me on"
"Take my hand, can you feel that feelin'?"
And I said, "Yeah just lead me on."

An 18-year-old boy's death by suicide was just another news story on the second page of the local paper, but it impacted this song's narrator deeply. Troubled by the young man's choice, the narrator speculated about the possible motivations for the boy's suicide. Was it a breakup, problems with substance abuse, or perhaps conflict with his parents? Importantly, the man also wondered why. Anyone who has lost someone in their lives to suicide knows that "why" is the hardest question to wrap your head around, and there's no good answer:

How do you get that lonely?
How do you hurt that bad?
To make you make the call?
That havin' no life at all
Is better than the life that you had?

Each of us possesses both a public face to present to the world and a private identity representing the "real" us. In this chart-topping country ballad, the narrator wonders who his love interest is beneath her veneer.

He wants a glimpse into her habits, how she handles stress, and how she unwinds. As their relationship develops further, he'll likely discover those answers. Love begins as an enchanting mystery and becomes comfortable and familiar, like a well-worn pair of slippers.

Wynonna Judd and her mother Naomi made a big splash on the country music scene in the 1980s and were consistently the top duo in the industry. Then, Naomi's Hepatitis C forced her to retire in 1991. Their second number one on the country charts was this catchy song which asks a question, "Why not me?"

The tune's narrator addresses a friend and love interest who has been searching for love everywhere. In a nonconfrontational manner, she suggests that the love he's been looking for is right under his nose, patiently waiting.

Please, fella, just leave the woman alone. In this sassy hit song, Lorrie Morgan is a lady just trying to unwind with a drink.

The woman is sitting at the bar minding her own business, but a guy with a one-night stand on his mind keeps attempting to chat her up. Rather than take "no" for an answer, Mr. Persistent doubles down, orders her a drink and tries again. His unwanted attention prompts her to brusquely ask, "What part of no don't you understand?"

The poor fella in this fun country hit felt duped by a no-good, two-timing cheater. Although he's upset about it, he finds cold comfort in knowing that lots of people are stepping out on those they gave their love and commitment to. You just never know who's cheatin' who and who's being true.

On his way to becoming a living legend in country music, Alan Jackson had some infidelities of his own. His wife and high school sweetheart, Denise, published a book in 2007 about how she forgave his adultery so that they could save their marriage.

If you don't get a lump in your throat with this sad tune then you need to check your pulse. A mother with a well of empathy tries to assist her daughter with loss experiences as the daughter must say goodbye to important people in her life.

Three goodbyes are highlighted:

• the family moves away from the young daughter's best friend when she is a child
• the daughter separates from her husband as an adult, and
• the mother passes away

In each case, the mother lovingly asks how she can help her daughter adjust to the inevitable changes of life.

Having recently discovered her lover's infidelity, the female narrator confronts him with his list of side-chicks. She knows about Lolita, Rita, Jill, Beverly Hill, Louise, Denise ... are there more?. Demanding an answer to the question, "Whose bed have your boots been under?" Shania has a come-to-Jesus with her man, threatening to leave him if he doesn't confess. Sadly, Shania later discovered that her own husband, record producer Mutt Lange, had been keeping his boots under the bed of her married best friend.

There's a man in love in this twangy country chart topper, and more than anything he wants his sweetheart to spend forever with him. He uses a string of lovely hypotheticals and asks her to marry:

If I gave you my hand would you take it
And make me the happiest man in the world?
If I told you my heart couldn't beat one more minute without you, girl
Would you accompany me to the edge of the sea?

A woman spots her ex in a bar and instantly regrets their breakup because he's looking so H-O-T! That cowboy with the wanderin' eye may have been a hard-hearted cheater but he can sure squeeze his patootie into painted-on jeans. As he's out on the dance floor slow dancing with every girl who will have him, the narrator feels jealous. She asks, "Why'd you come in here lookin' like that?"

Having been hurt before, the tenderhearted man in this love ballad embarks on his new romance with hesitation, asking, "Can I trust you with my heart?" He has met someone special and is already feeling tingly about love. However, he recognizes that reality and romance can be very different. Before he goes all in with his heart he needs to know whether she can handle the heavy emotional baggage that he carries.

A country music star since the age of 13, Tanya Tucker dazzles with this sad hit song that recounts the tale of a man trying to find the daughter he never knew. Buford Wilson traveled to Memphis in search of a prior love interest. He had dated her in New Orleans, and she had borne his child. Buford spends a decade attempting unsuccessfully to locate them. Crestfallen, he becomes a drunkard.

In an unfortunate twist of fate, Buford is jailed after being mistakenly labeled a child predator. His attempts to use candy to pry information from a young girl regarding her mother's identity were grossly misunderstood. As a result, Buford dies a homeless alcoholic, and in his coat a note reveals that the green-eyed child was indeed his daughter.