Watch Dillon perform “The Chair” for Strait in the video below. George Strait lyrics - 362 song lyrics sorted by album, including 'I Cross My Heart', 'Amarillo By Morning', 'All My Ex's Live In Texas'. While they were recording the demo for “The Chair,” Royce, Cochran and Dillon had the idea for another Strait hit, “Ocean Front Property.” Ultimately, he loved it because the lyric shows just how nervous the narrator is to approach the woman that he stumbles over his words. She looked so much like a lady, but she was so much like a child. Cochran went outside to grab a beer and brainstorm a little more.Īfter 15 minutes, he came back and suggested the lyrics, “ Well, thank you, can I drink you a buy? Aw, listen to me, what I mean is, can I buy you a drink? Anything you please.”ĭillion’s initial thought was, “ Man, that is either the craziest damn thing I ever heard of in my life, or this guy’s brilliant.” They knew right away they wanted it to be a conversation song with no chorus, just repeating melody. Tagged: Country The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s Groups from the United States suggest A Fire I Can't Put Out. The two wrote the first half of the first verse extremely fast. And I don’t know what happened, but then Hank sat down in a chair across from me, and I looked at him, picked up the guitar, struck a G chord, and started singing, ‘Well, excuse me, but I think you’ve got my chair.’ And he said, ‘Have you written that song?’ I said, ‘No.’ And he said, ‘Well, we’re about to.’ And 45 minutes later, we’d written ‘The Chair’.” It was released in April 1988 as the second single from his album If You Aint Lovin You Aint Livin. “I was tired though, and it was four in the morning again, like it always seemed to be for me and Hank. 'Baby Blue' is a song written by Aaron Barker, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. “By about four in the morning, I had drunk so much whiskey that I had actually drunk myself sober I didn’t know you could do that, but I did it,” Dillon told Texas Monthly. The song is uses the color blue specifically blue eyes as a metonym for the singer’s daughter who died when she was 13.
Porter flew back to Nashville, but Dillon and Cochran were celebrating their two songs, knowing they were going to be huge hits.
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