Rule 1: Country songs must contain references to either dogs or women.

Referring to them both is occasionally acceptable.
Referring to them as an identity is a valid solution but will compromise publication. The identity of a woman as a (kind of ) dog will be more successful than the reverse.

Rule 2: Country songs must contain references to a car, truck or other vehicle.
Successful country songs tend to use eighteen-wheelers or pickups.
The truck may belong to, or be driven by, or stolen by a woman (e.g., "That's Not Mah Truck".
Songs referring to vehicles driven by dogs comprise an untested category.

Rule 3. Country songs must contain a reference to love, a three-syllable expression of fixation. Love should be either discovered, betrayed or exagerrated to mythical proportions.

Rule 4. Country songs must contain some attempt at insight or humor, or both., Some country songs achieve the latter through ineptitude in the former (e.g., "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma").

Rule 5. Country songs must be in 4/4. The only exception is occasional use of 3/4, in which case a French accent must be employed.

Over.....