Voted Number One Country Song

Every July 4th weekend my radio station does their Firecracker 500, a top five hundred countdown of the best country songs based on the votes of all the listeners.

The winner this year - The Dance, by Garth Brooks.

Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared beneath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

Holding you, I held everything
For a moment wasn't I a king
But if I'd only known how the king would fall
Then who's to say? you know I might have changed it all

And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

Yes my life, its better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I'd have had to miss the dance

Because it's Garth Brooks, and because I enjoy this song (though I wouldn't have suggested it was the best ever written), it deserves to be mentioned.