9/17/2023 0 Comments Whisky lullaby songDavid Allen Coe “Jack Daniels if you Please”Īnd OF COURSE speaking of “Tennessee Whiskey” – we are partial to George Jones version of the song, which now somewhat of a country standard – so many artists have covered it.Cole Swindell “Ain’t Worth the Whiskey”.Asleep at the Wheel “The Letter that Johnny Walker Red”.Here is our list of forgotten great tunes (you can see The Boots full list and article below!) We do think that there are a few good songs that The Boot left off: We laid her next to him beneath the willow / While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby, the song plays out the sad tale as the closing la, la, la, la, la, la, la‘s send the couple off.Over here at The George Jones, we serve A LOT of Whiskey – and we are partial to Tennessee whiskey (which is why #1 on The Boot’s list is no suprise to us!). The woman, too, put the bottle to her head and pulled the trigger. She finally drank her pain away a little at a timeīut she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind The rumors flew, but nobody knew how much she blamed herselfįor years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath The rumors flew, but nobody knew how much she blamed herself, Krauss sings, the weight of the woman’s conviction heavy in her own mouth. With a note that said, “I’ll love her ’til I die”Īnd when we buried him beneath the willowĪ similar fate befalls the female character as news of the man’s death leaves her guilt-stricken. We found him with his face down in the pillow Than the strength he had to get up off his knees Life is short, but this time it was bigger He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger The man finally drinks the hurt away with whiskey as her name lingers on his dying breath. He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger, sing Paisley and Krauss in the most memorable line of the song-the words that started it all. The male figure in the song begins drinking himself to death in order to avoid the pain of a love lost. We watched him drink his pain away a little at a timeīut he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind She broke his heart, he spent his whole life tryin’ to forget She put him out, like the burnin’ end of a midnight cigarette It follows a couple whose painful separation has led them both down different paths with the same sad end. The song tells of tragedy against a ghostly gothic bluegrass backdrop. While “Whiskey Lullaby” was not written as a duet, it was Paisley’s idea to include a female vocalist, believing that there were only two people who could pull it off: Dolly Parton or Alison Krauss. And then, of course, the line that everyone remembers is, ‘Put the bottle to his head and pulled the trigger,’ so that was probably an example of cowriting in its purest form, where both people contribute pretty much equally to the process.” “And he loved that idea, and had been going through a lot of personal things in his life … he said, ‘Well, I put the bottle to my head and pulled the trigger a few times,’ and next thing I’m going, ‘Forget the midnight cigarette! I love put the bottle to the head and pulled the trigger!’ So what we did was we combined my line, ‘She put him out like the burning end of a midnight cigarette,’ as the opening line of ‘Whiskey Lullaby,’ and it worked really well. “Jon Randall and I got together to write one morning, and I came in and said, ‘I’ve got an idea to write a song called ‘Midnight Cigarette.’ Can you imagine a cigarette just sitting on an ashtray at midnight? Nobody’s smoking it or paying it any attention, and it just sort of burns out and goes out all by itself, and liken that to a relationship-it wasn’t like you hit a wall or anything, it just burned out, it just went away,” Anderson said. In Jake Brown’s 2014 book, Nashville Songwriter, Anderson recalled the collaboration with Randall. He met with his co-writer, Anderson, completed the song and eventually the tune made its way to Paisley. After seeing the state Randall was in during this time, it was his manager who told him, “Hey man, every now and then you’ve got to put a bottle to your head and pull the trigger.” Randall wrote down that line, thinking it would be great to use in a song. Jon Randall, one of the song’s co-writers alongside Bill Anderson, had been through the wringer before writing “Whiskey Lullaby.” He had just divorced his wife and fellow-country singer, Lorrie Morgan, and had also lost a record deal and songwriting contract, reportedly, all within a few days of each other.Īs a result, Randall discovered solace in the bottle, drinking regularly, and clinging to harmful and reckless habits.
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