@GradyWSmith (et al.) list The Most #Commonly-Used Words in #CountryMusic (as of Sep 18, 2020) | #Common #Commonwealth #InCommon #Commonplace #Commoner
The Current Most-Common Words (other than pronouns & conjunctions & articles like A, An, The, I, You, Them (`Em), And, That):
- Yeah - the ultimate filler-word
- (Rounding out the top 5) Girl, Baby, Love, Little (ultimate dark-horse commonest word ... often shortened to Lil`)
- Time
- Wanna, Gonna, Gotta (I'm surprised if Grady doesn't mention "Git")
Word-Cloud of Popular Words-in-the-Lyrics (in 2019 ...
click to enlarge) - Town - I feel like "City" (and maybe "Village" or "District") should also have been mentioned, but ...
- Night ... and you can see the use of 'Tonight' in lots of popular music
- Heart
- Hand
- Road
- Eyes
- Song
- Light
- Kiss
- Home
- Feel
- Lips
- Friends
The above 'common'-link goes to the video where Grady 1) lists the above words & 2) addresses some 'stereotypical Country Song'-words like:
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