You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl

"You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl"
Single by Brooks & Dunn
from the album Red Dirt Road
Released September 15, 2003
Recorded 2003
Genre Country
Length 3:41
Label Arista
Writer(s) Bob DiPiero
Bart Allmand
Producer Kix Brooks
Ronnie Dunn
Mark Wright
Brooks & Dunn singles chronology
"Red Dirt Road"
(2003)
"You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl"
(2003)
"That's What She Gets for Loving Me"
(2004)

"You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" is a song recorded by Brooks & Dunn. It is the second single released from their 2003 album Red Dirt Road. It reached #3 in early-2004[1].

Music video

The music video features a woman (named Connie), who doesn't like to wear shoes. In fact, she is always walking without them. The music video was directed by Michael Salomon. While the lyrics to the song imply that Connie ran off with the groom, the music video shows Connie dressed as the bride with the real bride and groom having eloped to Cancun.

Chart positions

"You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" debuted at #60 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart for the week of September 20, 2003.

Chart (2003–2004) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs 3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 39

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 57.