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Jason Aldean, 'Big Green Tractor' - Story Behind the Lyrics

Singer-songwriter David Lee Murphy, who had his own hits with 'Dust on the Bottle' and 'Party Crowd,' talks with The Boot about Jason Aldean's four-week chart-topper, 'Big Green Tractor,' which he co-wrote with Jim Collins.

I live outside of Nashville. I spend a lot of time out on my farm and on my tractor. The night before [Jim and I] had gotten together to write, I was out bush-hogging. One of my favorite things to do is get out and bush-hog at night and play around with my tractor. I was out riding around one night, and I just got the idea for that song. I started singing the chorus in my head.

I was supposed to write with Jim [the writer of 'She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy' for Kenny Chesney] the next day. I walked into his office and I said, "Hey man, do you feel like writing another tractor song?" He just busted out laughing and said, "It's been about eight years since 'She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy' ... I think I'm through!" We sat down and wrote that song.

When you write songs sometimes, you just have a feeling that "this is going to be a hit song." I had that feeling with 'Party Crowd,' and I had that feeling with 'Dust on the Bottle.' When we wrote 'Big Green Tractor,' it just felt like, "Man, this song feels really great. It's special and it's different." You just feel fortunate to be around when something like that happens. Songwriters, we just sit around there and wait for the ideas to come. Some days it doesn't happen, and some days it does. That was just one of those days that I was lucky enough to be there when that one came up.

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MIKE ZVIRBLIS

SO YOU THROW IN YOUR HAT CAUSE YOUR A FAILED ROCKER, TRY A COWBOY HAT AND YOU IS A STAR! NO WONDER BLACKS THINK COUNTRY MUSIC SUCKS! THEYRE POORLY WRITTEN ROCK SONGS!

March 09 2010 at 1:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MIKE ZVIRBLIS

SO A MEDIOCRE ROCKER PUTS A COWBOY HAT ON AND A COUNTRY STAR IS BORN. NO WONDER BLACK PEOPLE THINK WHITES ARE NUTS! I WONDER HOW MANY SONG WRITERS THROW THEIR HATS IN CAUSE OF NO ACCESS TO A COWBOY HAT? WHAT A COUNTRY!

March 09 2010 at 1:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kavacha2

What?? Even the writers don't get it?! It's not a song about a tractor!!

March 08 2010 at 3:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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blrourt

Apparently city people don't know the difference between "bush-hogging" and "brush-hogging."

March 09 2010 at 8:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply