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George Jones - Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes

It reached # 3 on the US lists. Billboard Hot Country Singles, and he stayed 20 weeks in the charts. In the Canadian RPM Country Tracks lists, I get to number # 2. The song was included in George Jones’ 45 studio album, Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes (Epic 1985)

Song written by Troy Seals and Max D. Barnes, was recorded by George Jones, for the Epic label, recorded in April 1985, in Eleven-Eleven Sound Studio, Nashville, TN, with the production of Billy Sherrill, was released in July From 1985, on October 26, it reached # 3 on the US lists. Billboard Hot Country Singles, and he stayed 20 weeks in the charts. In the Canadian RPM Country Tracks lists, I get to number # 2.

The song was included in George Jones’ 45 studio album, Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes (Epic 1985), the album was released in August 1985, and reached number # 6 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums. The video clip of the song won the CMA Award for Video of the Year, in 1986.

Jones sings about the irreplaceability of country music legends that include Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty, Roy Acuff, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Charlie Rich, Hank Williams, Marty Robbins and Lefty Frizzell. In my opinion, the truth is that they are irreplaceable and unique. Jones left some pretty big empty shoes.

 

 

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George Jones – Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes Lyrics

 

You know this old world is full of singers

But just a few are chosen

To tear your heart out when they sing

Imagine life without them

All your, radio heros

Like the outlaw that walks through Jesse’s dream

 

No, there will never be another

Red-headed stranger

A Man in Black and Folsom Prison Blues

The Okie from Muskogee

Or Hello Darling

Lord I wonder, who’s gonna fill their shoes

 

[Chorus:]

Who’s gonna fill their shoes

Who’s gonna stand that tall

Who’s gonna play the Opry

And the Wabash Cannonball

Who’s gonna give their heart and soul

To get to me and you

Lord I wonder, who’s gonna fill their shoes

 

God bless the boys from Memphis

Blue Suede Shoes and Elvis

Much too soon he left this world in tears

They tore up the Fifties

Old Jerry Lee and Charlie

And old Go Cat Go still echoes through the years

 

You know the heart of country music

Still beats in Luke the Drifter

You can tell when hew sings I Saw the Light

Old Marty, Hank and Lefty

Why I can feel them right here with me

On this Silver Eagle rolling through the night

 

[Chorus:]

Who’s gonna fill their shoes

Who’s gonna stand that tall

Who’s gonna play the Opry

And the Wabash Cannonball

Who’s gonna give their heart and soul

To get to me and you

Lord I wonder, who’s gonna fill their shoes

 

Yes I wonder, who’s gonna fill their shoes?..



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