Billy Burnette, Dennis Morgan and Shawn Camp talked to The Boot about the song they co-wrote, which became George Strait's 57th No. 1 single.Billy: Shawn built on the melody by playing along on a ukulele that (songwriter/producer) Cowboy Jack Clement had given him. I had a ukulele, too, so we just started playing around with it. It was a really good groove and the song just started to fall together.
Dennis: Harland Howard used to say, 'Write them with three chords and the truth,' but we beat him on this one -- we only used two chords, and it might not be the truth! Shawn started singing some of the lyrics, and it just came out. I think he had that opening line: 'Hey baby won't you take a little ride' ... I don't think we were thinking about so much as how to craft it, we were just having a ball writing it.








It's good to be the King. Country music's reigning monarch,
It has to be a little unnerving to stand in front of the Academy of Country Music's Artist of the Decade and sing his songs for him. That's exactly what a host of singers did a few weeks ago as they taped "
George Strait
