Alan Jackson

Released: June 5, 2012

Songwriter: Chris Stapleton Terry McBride

Producer: Keith Stegall

[Verse 1]
Let me just say for the sake of conversation
If there's such a thing as reincarnation
Don't you go crying for me when I'm gone
'Cause I'm gonna come back as a country song

[Chorus]
I'll be playing all night in every honky tonk bar
In the middle of a fiddle and a steel guitar
I'm hoping when the good Lord calls me home
I'm gonna come back as a country song

[Verse 2]
And I'd have to say it'd be Heaven to me
Watching neon lights for eternity!
So go ahead and put it on my headstone
Yeah, I'm gonna come back as a country song

[Chorus]
I'll be playing all night in every honky tonk bar
In the middle of a fiddle and a steel guitar
I'm hoping when the good Lord calls me home
I'm gonna come back as a country song

[Verse 3]
So here I am on a stool tonight
Yeah, I'm practising up for the afterlife
'Cause when I'm nothing but a pile of bones
I'm gonna come back as a country song

[Chorus]
I'll be playing all night in every honky-tonk bar
In the middle of a fiddle and a steel guitar
I'm hoping when the good Lord calls me home
I'm gonna come back as a country song

[Outro]
I'm hoping when the good Lord calls me home
I'm gonna to come back as a country song

Alan Eugene Jackson was born October 17, 1958 in Newnan, Georgia to Joseph Eugene “Daddy Gene” and Ruth Musick “Mama Ruth” Jackson. He has four older sisters, Diane; twins Cathy & Carol and Connie. He attended Elm Street Elementary School and Newnan High School in Newnan, GA and also attended one year at West Georgia College. Alan married Denise on December 15, 1979. They have three daughters. Mattie Denise was born June 19, 1990; Alexandra Jane “Ali” was born August 23, 1993 and Dani Grace was born August 28, 1997. The 6'4" country music singer-songwriter is known for blending honky-tonk and mainstream country sounds. He also writes many of his own songs. To date, he’s released over 15 albums.

Jackson has sold over 80 million records, and more than 50 of his singles having appeared on Billboard’s “Top 40 Country Songs”. He’s won two Grammys and 16 CMA Awards.

He is known for “I’d Love You All Over Again”, “Country Boy”, “I Don’t Even Know Your Name”, and “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)”.

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