Songwriter: Jim McBride Alan Jackson
Producer: Keith Stegall Scott Hendricks
[Verse 1]
Daddy won a radio
He tuned it to a country show
I was rocking in the cradle to the crying of a steel guitar
Mama used to sing to me
She taught me that sweet harmony
Now she worries cause she never thought
I'd ever really take it this far
Singing in the bars
[Chorus]
And chasing that neon rainbow
Living that honky-tonk dream
Cause all I've ever wanted
Is to pick this guitar and sing
Just trying to be somebody
Just wanna be heard and seen
I'm chasing that neon rainbow
Living that honky-tonk dream
[Verse 2]
An atlas and a coffee cup
Five pickers in an old Dodge truck
Heading down to Houston for a show on Saturday night
This overhead is killing me
Half the time I sing for free
When the crowd's into it, lord
It makes this thing I'm doing seem right
Standing in the spotlight
[Chorus]
And chasing that neon rainbow
I'm-a living that honky-tonk dream
Cause all I've ever wanted
Is to pick this guitar and sing
Just trying to be somebody
Just wanna be heard and seen
I'm chasing that neon rainbow
Living that honky-tonk dream
[Verse 3]
Now daddy's got a radio
He won it thirty years ago
He said; son I just know
We're going to hear you singing on it some day
I made it up to Music Row
Lordy, don't the wheels turn slow
Still I wouldn't trade a minute
I wouldn't have it any other way
Just show me to the stage
[Chorus]
I'm chasing that neon rainbow
I'm-a living that honky-tonk dream
Cause all I've ever wanted
Is to pick this guitar and sing
Just trying to be somebody
Just wanna be heard and seen
I'm chasing that neon rainbow
Living that honky-tonk dream
[Outro]
Oh I'm chasing that neon rainbow
Living that honky-tonk dream
Daddy won a radio
He tuned it to a country show
I was rocking in the cradle to the crying of a steel guitar
Mama used to sing to me
She taught me that sweet harmony
Now she worries cause she never thought
I'd ever really take it this far
Singing in the bars
[Chorus]
And chasing that neon rainbow
Living that honky-tonk dream
Cause all I've ever wanted
Is to pick this guitar and sing
Just trying to be somebody
Just wanna be heard and seen
I'm chasing that neon rainbow
Living that honky-tonk dream
[Verse 2]
An atlas and a coffee cup
Five pickers in an old Dodge truck
Heading down to Houston for a show on Saturday night
This overhead is killing me
Half the time I sing for free
When the crowd's into it, lord
It makes this thing I'm doing seem right
Standing in the spotlight
[Chorus]
And chasing that neon rainbow
I'm-a living that honky-tonk dream
Cause all I've ever wanted
Is to pick this guitar and sing
Just trying to be somebody
Just wanna be heard and seen
I'm chasing that neon rainbow
Living that honky-tonk dream
[Verse 3]
Now daddy's got a radio
He won it thirty years ago
He said; son I just know
We're going to hear you singing on it some day
I made it up to Music Row
Lordy, don't the wheels turn slow
Still I wouldn't trade a minute
I wouldn't have it any other way
Just show me to the stage
[Chorus]
I'm chasing that neon rainbow
I'm-a living that honky-tonk dream
Cause all I've ever wanted
Is to pick this guitar and sing
Just trying to be somebody
Just wanna be heard and seen
I'm chasing that neon rainbow
Living that honky-tonk dream
[Outro]
Oh I'm chasing that neon rainbow
Living that honky-tonk dream
Genuine - The Alan Jackson Story
- The Star-Spangled Banner (Live)
- Monday Morning Church
- Too Much Of A Good Thing
- That’d Be Alright
- Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)
- Work In Progress
- Drive (For Daddy Gene)
- The Blues Man
- Pop A Top
- Where I Come From
- When Somebody Loves You
- A House With No Curtains
- A Woman’s Love
- Like Red On A Rose
- Good Time
- Small Town Southern Man
- Seguro Que Hell Yes
- Wings
- If Tears Could Talk
- Born Too Late
- Love is Hard
- Ain’t Just A Southern Thing
- Seven Bridges Road (Live)
- Tall, Tall Trees
- I’ll Try
- It Must Be Love
- Sissy’s Song
- Country Boy
- There Goes
- Between The Devil And Me
- I’ll Go On Loving You
- Dallas
- Don’t Rock The Jukebox
- Home
- I’d Love You All Over Again
- Wanted
- Blue Blooded Woman
- Here In The Real World
- Remember When
- As She’s Walking Away
- Who’s Cheatin’ Who
- It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
- Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow
- Midnight In Montgomery
- Love’s Got A Hold On You
- Someday
- Little Man
- Gone Crazy
- Right On The Money
- Little Bitty
- I Don’t Even Know Your Name
- Gone Country
- Livin’ On Love
- Summertime Blues
- Mercury Blues
- (Who Says) You Can’t Have It All
- Tonight I Climbed The Wall
- She’s Got The Rhythm (And I Got The Blues)
- Chattahoochee
- Here In The Real World (1990)
- The Greatest Hits Collection (1995)
- Super Hits (1999)
- 34 Number Ones (2010)
- Genuine - The Alan Jackson Story (2015)
- The Older I Get
- Chattahoochee
- It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
- Remember When
- Drive (For Daddy Gene)
- Good Time
- Where I Come From
- What A Friend We Have In Jesus
- Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)
- I Want To Stroll Over Heaven With You
- Country Boy
- The Old Rugged Cross
- Like Red On A Rose
- Midnight In Montgomery
- Freight Train
- A Million Ways To Die
- Amazing Grace
- Little Bitty
- The Blues Man
- Livin’ On Love
- Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow
- Who’s Cheatin’ Who
- Dixie Highway
- That’s What I’d Be Like Without You