| "These Are My People" | ||||
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| Single by Rodney Atkins | ||||
| from the album If You're Going Through Hell | ||||
| Released | March 19, 2007 | |||
| Format | CD single, digital download | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:34 | |||
| Label | Curb | |||
| Writer(s) | Dave Berg Rivers Rutherford |
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| Producer | Rodney Atkins Ted Hewitt |
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"These Are My People" is the title of a song written by Dave Berg and Rivers Rutherford, and recorded by American country music artist Rodney Atkins. It was released in March 2007 as the third single from his 2006 platinum album If You're Going Through Hell,[1] as well as the third straight Number One single from that album.[2]
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The song is an up-tempo which is introduced by a fiddle solo, with guitar also accompanying. The lyrics are the narrator's description of his rural lifestyle: specifically, the friends with whom he plays church league softball and drinks beer at a bar. The first verse references the Lynyrd Skynyrd songs "Gimme Three Steps", "Simple Man", and "The Ballad of Curtis Loew". "Lovin' and laughin' and bustin' our asses", a line from the first verse, was changed to "…bustin' our backs" in the radio edit.
The music video was directed by Eric Welch and premiered in early 2007.
"These Are My People" debuted at number 57 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs for the week of March 24, 2007.
| Chart (2007) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard Hot 100[3] | 42 |
| US Country Songs (Billboard)[4] | 1 |
| Preceded by "Never Wanted Nothing More" by Kenny Chesney |
Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one single September 8, 2007 |
Succeeded by "More Than a Memory" by Garth Brooks |
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