She'll Leave You With A Smile

Album: Carrying Your Love With Me (1997)
Charted: 23
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about a girl who breaks hearts with impunity but leaves they guys with such fond memories, they can't help but smile when they think about her. She'll love you all night long and leave you with a smile - just don't hope for more.
  • "She'll Leave You With A Smile" was written by Nashville writers Odie Blackmon and Jay Knowles during a difficult time for the pair. "At the time we wrote that song, I had just lost my first publishing deal, and I was broke as I could be," Blackmon recalled to Roughstock. "I had been in a phase where me and some of my songwriter buddies that were younger, had been trying to chase what we thought people wanted, but it wasn't working. Jay and myself had lost our deals, and we were kind of down and out. We wrote a lot together during that time."

    "I remember us specifically sitting down and going, 'OK - we're just going to write what we want to write and not worry about anybody else,'" he continued, "that's when things turned around for the both of us," continued Blackmon. "We wrote 'She'll Leave You With a Smile' during that era. I specifically remember the bass line and the verses as the same as like in 'Dear Prudence' by The Beatles, even though it's a country song. I was listening to The White Album a lot. It also kind of reminds me of Conway Twitty, but the bass line was inspired directly by The Beatles."
  • George Strait was into his third decade of consistent Country chart-toppers when he released "She'll Leave You With A Smile" in 2002. It was his 37th #1 Country hit - his first was back in 1982 with "Fool Hearted Memory." He ended up with 44 chart-toppers. Through it all, he kept his cowboy hat on.
  • Strait's songs crossed over the Hot 100 from time to time, and "She'll Leave You With A Smile" gave him his highest placement on that chart, at #23.

Comments: 3

  • Sarah from A, TxYes, yes...George Strait is the greatest and one of my FAVORITES.
  • Jillian from Portland, TxYou all have to remember that his only daughter was killed in a car accident. Drunk driver hit her. Poor George.
  • Alicia from Stonefort, IlI love this song... of course... how can you not love a George Strait Song
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