From my personal department of compulsive research, in response to a Facebook post about questions in song titles.
Here's an idea for an (as far as I know) nonexistent album, YouTube playlist, or master's thesis, titled: "Uncertainties: The questioning songs of the Carter Family."
- "Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?"
- "Will The Roses Bloom In Heaven"
- "Will My Mother Know Me There?"
- "Why Do You Cry, Little Darling"
- "Can* the Circle Be Unbroken"
- "Where Shall I Be?"
- "Happy Or Lonesome" (The lyric asks, "Are you still happy, I wonder, or are you lonesome too?")
Of course, some of those questions might be described as faith-based with positive answers rhetorically implied; the Carters' discography at Wikipedia doesn't always include question marks.
* And then there's the "Will" versus "Can" story about that presumably unbroken circle, explored by the Birthplace of Country Music Museum: Will the Circle Be Unbroken, history of a song.
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