"Where the Green Grass Grows" is a song written by Jess Leary and

Craig Wiseman Craig Michael Wiseman is an American Country music songwriter and producer, and the owner/founder of the Big Loud enterprise. He has been writing since the late 1980s, and his songs have been recorded by Lorrie Morgan, Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney ...

, and recorded by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

artist

Tim McGraw Samuel Timothy McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has released 16 studio albums (11 for Curb Records, four for Big Machine Records and one for Arista Nashville). 10 of those album ...

. It was released on July 13, 1998 as the fifth single from McGraw's '' Everywhere'' album. The song reached number one on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart and peaked at number seventy-nine on the Hot 100. It also reached number one on the Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart.

Content

The song tells the story of a man leaving the big city by going back out into the country. The song is referenced and sampled in McGraw's 2021 single, "

7500 OBO "7500 OBO" is a song by American country music singer Tim McGraw. It was released on August 2, 2021, as the third single from his sixteenth studio album '' Here on Earth''. The song was written by Nathan Spicer, Matt McGinn and Jennifer Schott, ...

Critical reception

Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A grade, saying it is "tightly produced, with an instantly recognizable opening fiddle." He went on to say that the lyrics are "cleverly constructed" and "brilliantly contrasted."CountryUniverse.net
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Parodies

*American country music parody artist

Cledus T. Judd James Barry Poole (born December 18, 1964) is an American country music artist who records under the name Cledus T. Judd. Known primarily for his parodies of popular country songs, he has been called the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music, and ...

released a parody of "Where the Green Grass Grows" titled "Where the Grass Don't Grow" on his 1999 album Juddmental.

References

1998 singles 1997 songs Tim McGraw songs Songs written by Craig Wiseman Song recordings produced by Byron Gallimore Song recordings produced by Tim McGraw Song recordings produced by James Stroud Curb Records singles Songs about farmers {{1998-country-song-stub