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“Put Up Wet (Unplugged)”

Front Porch Unplugged Acoustic Session • Sung by Country Cate


This is a classic country song new for 2025 about a woman out of options...and motivation.

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For fans of classic country, heartbreak songs, and female perspective tributes.

Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
I was born in a trailer, on an old dirt road
Where you could count, all your neighbors on just one hand
So poor we couldn't afford to, buy a carp from a crow
Although my daddy was a damn hard workin' man

[Verse 2]
I watched the others drive away at graduation
To the college in the city to chase their dreams
I didn't join them because of my situation
I was expecting a little baby that new year's eve

[Bridge]
And his daddy came and went like setting of the sun
And I really hoped that he would stick around
I raised that baby, into a young man who disrespected a gun
I was thirty-four when I put him, in the ground

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]
I met a nice man in a tavern, and it had been oh so long
Since the warmth of a strong hand, holdin' mine
And when we got married, it was that same ol sad song
Left me and our new baby far behind

[Bridge]
Well I raised up that baby to my very best
But he didn't heed the words I had to say
He's doin' time in that prison, until they lay him down to rest
Don't know how I can face, another day

[Verse 4]
Now I'm too old and tired to, try anything again
A salvage title, that nobody wants to buy
I go to bed all alone, rode hard and put up wet
And I'll do it every day, until I die

[Outtro]
I go to bed all alone, rode hard and put up wet
And I'll do it every day, until I die

Lyrics written by ‪@donovanjury
Music and vocals created with AI tools.