Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1968
Epic · Sony Music Entertainment
Stand by Your Man
Epic, under Sony. After all, he's just a man. The line is the problem and the point.
Epic released it. Sony owns Epic. Wynette was tired of songs that treated a husband's failure as the wife's cue to leave in a chorus. She sang the other risk: that you quit a person at the first hard year. Both risks are real.
The song is not a law. It is a reminder that staying is sometimes the brave thing, and sometimes the frightened one. A house has to know which night it is.
The eight
Industry
7/10
She sings a contested sentence as if she had lived it.
Household
7/10
A marriage, kept through the embarrassment.
Piety
4/10
Loyalty, not yet wisdom about harm.
Courage
6/10
She says the unpopular stay.
Republic
4/10
A private vow said into a public argument.
Temperance
5/10
Give him time. Sometimes that is love. Sometimes that is delay.
Truth
6/10
She does not pretend he is impressive.
Stewardship
6/10
Hear the loyalty. Do not hear a command to endure a harm.
Live historicallyIf the argument is ordinary, consider staying in it until it is finished. If the argument is a harm, this song is not your orders.
