We'll Burn That Bridge

"We'll Burn That Bridge"
Single by Brooks & Dunn
from the album Hard Workin' Man
B-side "Heartbroke Out of My Mind"
Released May 3, 1993
Format CD Single, 7"
Genre Country
Length 2:57
Label Arista 12563
Writer(s) Don Cook
Ronnie Dunn
Producer Don Cook
Scott Hendricks
Brooks & Dunn singles chronology
"Hard Workin' Man"
(1993)
"We'll Burn That Bridge"
(1993)
"She Used to Be Mine"
(1993)

"We'll Burn That Bridge" is the title of a song written by Don Cook and Ronnie Dunn, and recorded by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It was released in May 1993 as the second single from their CD, Hard Workin' Man, it peaked at #2 on the country charts.[1]

Content

The song's narrator meets a woman who's man had walked out on her. The narrator promises her that he'll take her so much higher from where the man left her down at, and tells her that if her former lover's memory comes around, that they'll burn that bridge when they get there.

Chart positions

"We'll Burn That Bridge" debuted at number 70 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 15, 1993.

Chart (1993) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 2
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 56. 
Preceded by
"A Bad Goodbye"
by Clint Black with Wynonna
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

August 21, 1993
Succeeded by
"It Sure Is Monday"
by Mark Chesnutt