Where Grass Won't Grow (song)

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"Where Grass Won't Grow"
Single by George Jones
from the album Where Grass Won't Grow
B-side "Shoulder to Shoulder"
Released1970
Recorded1969
Genre Country
Length3:18
Label Musicor
Songwriter(s) Earl Montogomery
Producer(s) Pappy Daily
George Jones singles chronology
"She's Mine"
(1969)
"Where Grass Won't Grow"
(1970)
"Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong"
(1970)

"Where Grass Won't Grow" is a song by American country music singer George Jones. It was written by Earl "Peanut" Montgomery, one of Jones' favorite songwriters, and tells the story of the hardships faced by a family living on a twelve-acre farm in south Tennessee. The song features a gentle mandolin and three modulations that build to a redemptive closing but, despite a moving vocal from Jones, the single, released on Musicor in 1970, stalled at #28 on the Billboard country singles chart. He would record it again in 1994 with Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, and Trisha Yearwood for the Bradley Barn Sessions .

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Discography

Charts

Weekly chart performance for "Where Grass Won't Grow"
Chart (1970)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [1] 28

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