I can hardly bear the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray, lying cold the way you left them, but at least your lips caressed them while you packed. Lord have mercy, to write a line like that.
This is a great song. My favorite version is George & Alan Jackson - the smile on Alan's face showed how happy he was to be singing with George - Alan did such an awesome job on it.
I first heard this by EC on the Almost Blue album, and loved it. I didn't know at the time that Jerry had written it, or that George Jones had originally recorded it. It's on of my all-time favorites list nowadays! I just love tat line - "the lawn could stand another mowin', funny I don't even care".
I am so fortunate and lucky to have lived the same generation as most of the Genuine Country Singers and Writers of the past 80 yrs. and George's Song "Who's gonna fill their shoes" really hits deep in my heart as it is So True and George saw The Future~! RIP Jerry and thanks so much for all your contributions to The Common Man's Music~!!
I never understood, I thought the baby died, baby’s cries go unheard. Now I think I get it, then I thought it meant, he bought the lady a lot of roses. Anyway, I love it. Elvis C. did a great job, Alan Jackson is awesome too, but I love, love, love George. Rest In Sweet Peace. We miss you down here George ❤
I'll tell you what Mr chest not sure did write that song in 71 and it was also a good thing for George Jones to sing that as a matter of fact George Jones remade that a number of years ago and he brought in Alan Jackson to sing part of it which was very nice and I can tell you right now every time you hear that song it would bring tears to your eyes because it would make somebody cry. But that's the way the song is and that's how some songs are but this one you either love it or hate it but it was one hell of a song that George Jones put out in 71 and it sure made everybody feel good. I don't know if it hit number one or not but I can tell you this it still made one damn good song.
I always figured that the roses were part literal and part metaphorical. That they referred to all the times he had brought her roses to try and make up for some real or imagined infraction of his. And tbh, that's still how I see it. It fits into the story of the song better than merely a reference to some roses growing outside somewhere.
I used to have both versions on my playlist driving around the West, while I was already an Elvis fan I could never make up my mind which version I liked better.
