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LTC Stephen F.
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Thank you, my friend SGT (Join to see) for posting the music video of George Jones performing "Where Grass Won't Grow" with Trisha Yearwood, Emmylou Harris, and Dolly Parton. released in 1994 on George Jones's The Bradley Barn Sessions.

"Where Grass Won't Grow" written by Earl Montgomery
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"The dirt was clay an' was the color of the blood in me.
A twelve acre farm on a ridge in south Tennessee.
We left our sweat all over that land,
Behind a mule we watched grow old,
Row after row.
Trying to grow corn an' cotton on ground so poor that grass won't grow.

There was one old store in the holler we all called town.
It belonged to a gentle old man named Henry Brown.
He gave us grits and in the winter time,
So we could live through the cold,
When the winds brought snow.
Trying to grow corn an' cotton on ground so poor that grass won't grow.

The one I loved walked through those fields with me.
A hard workin' woman, true as one could be.
But then one year, death was goin' round,
And swiftly took it's toll.
Janie had to go.
Now she lies asleep under ground so poor that grass won't grow.

As I stand here looking over this part of Tennessee,
The fields are bare as far as the eye can see.
And over the ground where Janie lies,
There's a beautiful sight to behold,
And no one knows,
Why there's flowers growin' on ground so poor that grass won't grow..."

FYI LTC Stephen C. LTC Wayne Brandon LTC Bill Koski Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown Maj Marty Hogan MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SPC Margaret Higgins MSgt Jason McClish AN Christopher Crayne SPC Tom DeSmet SGT Charles H. Hawes SGT (Join to see) SSG David Andrews
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Thanks for sharing!
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SPC Margaret Higgins
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LOVIN' THIS, SGT (Join to see) AND, LOVIN' YOU, DAVID! I SING GEORGE JONES': "HE STOPPED LOVING HER TODAY"! I LOVE SINGIN' COUNTRY!
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SPC Douglas Bolton
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SGT (Join to see) Uplifting and sad.
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