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George Jones - Choices

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Album: The Cold Hard Truth
Released: 1999

Choices Lyrics

[Chorus]
I've had Choices
Since the day that I was born
There were voices
That told me right from wrong
If I had listened
No I wouldn't be here today
Living and dying
With the choices I made

I was tempted
By an early age I found
I liked drinkin'
Oh, and I never turned it down
There were loved ones
But I turned them all away
Now I'm living and dying
With the choices I made

[Chorus]

I guess I'm payin'
For the things that I have done
If I could go back
Oh, Lord knows I'd run
But I'm still losin'
This game of life I play
Living and dying
With the choices I made

[Chorus]

Living and dying
With the choices I made

Writer/s: YATES, BILLY WAYNE / CURTIS, MICHAEL A.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, CONEXION MEDIA GROUP, INC.
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Choices

This song is basically the true life story of George Jones, who overcame drug and alcohol addiction.

The year this was released, Jones was supposed to perform it on the televised CMA Awards. The CMA's wanted George to perform about 30 seconds of the song directly before a commercial break, so George backed out of the performance because he refused to perform only part of the song. During the live awards show, fellow Country singer Alan Jackson rebelled against the CMA's and stopped his song "Pop A Top" midway and started into the full version of this.

Rumor was from backstage at the CMA's after Alan Jackson broke the format and performed "Choices" on the awards show he walked straight out the back door saying, "That might be it for my career." Of course, it was anything but. George Jones saw Jackson's performance on TV at his home, and applauded the effort. A couple of years later, Jackson used the CMA awards to perform, for the first time, his post 9/11 tribute "Where Were You."

George Jones - We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds

George Jones - We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: I Wish Tonight Would Never End
Released: 1963

We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds Lyrics

We said our goodbyes long ago
Never thinking we'd miss each other so
All the memories we can't leave behind
Oh, We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds

[Chorus]
I thought I loved another, not you
How foolish, I thought the same, too
They both turned out to be the wrong kind
Oh, we must have been out of our minds

Let's forgive and forget the past we've known
And reap together the wild seeds we've sown
Surely they can forgive us in time
That, we must have been out of our minds

[Chorus]

Yes, we must have been out of our minds

Writer/s: MELBA MONTGOMERY
Publisher: GLAD MUSIC CO.
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We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds

This song became a hit duet from George Jones and his frequent collaborator Melba Montgomery. It debuted on Jones' 12th studio album and peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts.

Although the song is sometimes credited to Melba's brother, Earl "Peanutt" Montgomery, she actually penned it herself in a used van on the way to California. "I wrote the whole song on the back of a postcard in less than one hundred miles," she said.

Bluegrass singer Rhonda Vincent covered this song as a duet with Daryle Singletary for her Only Me album. Because both of them knew the song so well, they mistakenly thought they could knock it out within an hour and be done. Not so, Rhonda told The Boot: "We sang it, and we came into the control room and listened to it, thinking, 'We did a great job, we knew this, we knocked this out.' And we listened to it, and we both looked at each other, and we said, "We've gotta go back in there." [Laughs.] So we sang for another hour, just working out those intricacies. George and Melba made it look so easy."