Cowgirls Don't Cry

"Cowgirls Don't Cry" is the fourth and final single recorded by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn on their final studio album Cowboy Town. It was written by Ronnie Dunn, one-half of the duo, and Terry McBride, former lead singer of McBride & the Ride. One month after its chart entry, it was re-recorded and re-released as a collaboration with Reba McEntire. The song is Brooks & Dunn's 41st and final Top Ten hit on the Billboard country charts, and McEntire's fifty-sixth.

Content

"Cowgirls Don't Cry" is a mid-tempo with a fiddle intro. Its lyric focuses on a female character who faces hardship. In the first verse, she is a little girl who has just been given a pony to ride, and although she repeatedly falls off, she does not cry. By the second verse, she is an adult, and her husband is having an affair, although again she does not cry. She discovers in the third verse that her father is dying, and places a phone call to him. He then tells her, "Cowgirl, don't cry".

Re-release

An alternate version of this song that features Reba McEntire's vocals on the final chorus was released to radio after she and the duo performed the song on the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, November 12, 2008.^[1] In addition, a video was released that featured both the duo and McEntire.^[1] Starting with the chart week of November 29, 2008, the song was credited on the U.S. country charts as "Brooks & Dunn featuring Reba McEntire". The Reba McEntire collaboration was officially released as a digital single on February 10, 2009.^[2] The duet version features a key change in the final chorus, which is not present in the original recording. This re-release is the version that appears on the compilation album #1s… and Then Some.

Chart performance

On the chart week of January 31, 2009, the song entered Top Ten on the Billboard country singles charts, giving Brooks & Dunn their forty-first and final Top Ten hit and breaking a record previously held by Alabama for the most Top Ten country hits by a duo or group.^[3] In addition, it became McEntire's fifty-sixth Top Ten country hit, breaking Dolly Parton's record for the most Top Ten country hits for a solo female.^[4]

Chart (2008–2009)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^{[ 1]}	2
US Billboard Hot 100^{[ 1]}	44
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)^{[ 1]}	49

Year-end charts

Chart (2009)	Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[5]	16

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Brooks & Dunn release Cowgirls single with Reba
↑ Keel, Beverly (2009-01-26). "Brooks & Dunn single sets record". The Tennesseean. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
↑ Holland, Margy. "Brooks & Dunn Make Chart History". CJFW. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
↑ Bronson, Fred (2009-01-22). "Billboard Chart Beat". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-01-25.
↑ "Best of 2009: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2009. Retrieved December 13, 2009.

External links

Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

v t e Brooks & Dunn singles

Brand New Man	"Brand New Man" "My Next Broken Heart" "Neon Moon" "Boot Scootin' Boogie" "Lost and Found"

Hard Workin' Man	"Hard Workin' Man" "We'll Burn That Bridge" "She Used to Be Mine" "Rock My World (Little Country Girl)" "That Ain't No Way to Go"

Waitin' on Sundown	"She's Not the Cheatin' Kind" "I'll Never Forgive My Heart" "Little Miss Honky Tonk" "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" "Whiskey Under the Bridge"

Borderline	"My Maria" "I Am That Man" "Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing" "A Man This Lonely" "Why Would I Say Goodbye"

The Greatest Hits Collection	"Honky Tonk Truth" "He's Got You"

If You See Her	"If You See Him/If You See Her" (with Reba McEntire) "How Long Gone" "Husbands and Wives" "I Can't Get Over You" "South of Santa Fe"

Tight Rope	"Missing You" "Beer Thirty" "You'll Always Be Loved by Me"

Steers & Stripes	"Ain't Nothing 'bout You" "Only in America" "The Long Goodbye" "My Heart Is Lost to You" "Every River"

Red Dirt Road	"Red Dirt Road" "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" "That's What She Gets for Loving Me"

The Greatest Hits Collection II	"That's What It's All About" "It's Getting Better All the Time"

Hillbilly Deluxe	"Play Something Country" "Believe" "Building Bridges" (with Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill) "Hillbilly Deluxe"

Cowboy Town	"Proud of the House We Built" "God Must Be Busy" "Put a Girl in It" "Cowgirls Don't Cry" (with Reba McEntire)

#1s… and Then Some	"Indian Summer" "Honky Tonk Stomp" (with Billy Gibbons)

See also	Discography

v t e Reba McEntire 2000s-2010s singles

So Good Together	"I'll Be" "We're So Good Together"

Greatest Hits Volume III: I'm a Survivor	"I'm a Survivor" "Sweet Music Man"

Room to Breathe	"I'm Gonna Take That Mountain" "Somebody" "He Gets That from Me" "My Sister"

Reba #1's	"You're Gonna Be (Always Loved by Me)" "Love Needs a Holiday"

Reba: Duets	"Because of You" (with Kelly Clarkson) "The Only Promise That Remains" (with Justin Timberlake) "Every Other Weekend" (with Kenny Chesney)

Keep On Loving You	"Strange" "Consider Me Gone" "I Keep On Loving You"

All the Women I Am	"Turn On the Radio" "If I Were a Boy" "When Love Gets a Hold of You" "Somebody's Chelsea"

Promotional singles	"The New Me" "Goodbye Looks Good on Me"

Guest singles	"Cowgirls Don't Cry" (with Brooks & Dunn)

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