Whiskey Lullaby
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| "Whiskey Lullaby" | ||
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| Single by Brad Paisley | ||
| from the album Mud on the Tires | ||
| Released | 2004 | |
| Genre | Country | |
| Length | 4:26 | |
| Label | Arista | |
| Chart positions | ||
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#3 Country Tracks chart |
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| Brad Paisley singles chronology | ||
| "Little Moments" (2004) |
"Whiskey Lullaby" (2004) |
"Mud on the Tires" (2004) |
Whiskey Lullaby is a single by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss. It was featured on Brad's third album, Mud on the Tires.
[edit] Trivia
- The song was written by Bill Anderson and Jon Randall.
- The video was directed by Rick Schroder, who also played the U.S. Army veteran who returns home from military service.
- The song duet by Krauss and Paisley ranked #14 in CMT's 100 Greatest Duets in Country Music in 2005.
- The song was redone as a duet by Rex Goudie and Melissa O'Neil; it is on Rex Goudie's CD, Under the Lights.
[edit] Synopsis
Whiskey Lullaby is a song about a couple who divorce and eventually kill themselves because they miss each other. The full length music video is set in the 1940-50's. It starts out with a man returning home from the Army, as he walks into his house and looks at the pictures of him and his wife and has a flashback to a moment of them underneath a Weeping Willow tree. He hears laughter upstairs and walks up expecting to find his wife alone, but she is in bed with another man. He then leaves her and the song begins.
The first verse of the song in the video shows the man getting drunk, and not being able to get his wife off his mind. He eventually gets so drunk that he kills himself, and the first chorus shows his funeral and his wife crying.
The second verse of the song in the video shows the wife drinking a lot and going out with guys, there is a scene in which the wife pushes a man out of the room and starts to drink whiskey straight from the bottle. That part of the video shows how she really blamed herself for his death and that whiskey was the only thing that could make her feel better.
Just before the second chorus there's a shot of her at her husband's grave crying and drinking. When the chorus starts, it cuts to her funeral and people crying and when the song finishes a little girl is looking back at the graves and seeing them alive, hugging and kissing and falling in love again.
