Structure of the Lyrics in Chorus: Country Song

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"CODY KIMMEL: Hi. My name is Cody Kimmel. I'm the lead singer of the band Eliot Fitzgerald, and I'm here with Expert Village to teach you how to write a country song. Now, the lyrical structure for the chorus of a country song shouldn't be complicated. Like I said before, the chorus, the main point is to give the hook, is to give the clever line. Country music is known and notorious for clever, witty, funny lines. It doesn't necessarily have to be funny, but at least something a clever turn of phrase that is based on something that you might have heard before or seen before but it's just slightly different. Our catch phrase for this country song is "My heart still drives to Houston". It's a clever way but at the same time it has enough familiar aspects of it, to where--it's something very relatable. So, the lyrical structure should really be focused around what is your hook. You want to state your hook pretty quickly into the chorus. It should be--if anything, it should be your first line, if not, pretty shortly afterwards and everything else--if you are going to say anything else afterwards, it should rhyme and it should really tie back and relate to the hook and to illuminate it, to maybe expand on it a little but more but at the same time, remember, the chorus, lyrically structure-wise, should be very simple in a country song."