Crazy Town

Album: Wide Open (2009)
Charted: 51
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  • Roll into town step off the bus,
    Shake off the where you came from dust,
    Grab you guitar walk down the street,
    Sign says Nashville Tennessee,
    But I have found,

    It's a crazy town full of neon dreams,
    Everybody plays everybody sings,
    Hollywood with a touch of twang,
    To be a star you gotta bang bang bang,
    Bend those strings till the Hank comes out,
    Make all the drunk girls scream and shout,
    We love it we hate it we're all just trying to make it,
    In this crazy town,

    Pay your dues and you play for free,
    And you pray for a honky tonk destiny,
    You cut your teeth in the smokey bars,
    And live off the tips from a pickle jar
    Till find a cool new sound
    And you smile when the record man shoots you down,

    It's a crazy town full of neon dreams,
    Everybody plays everybody sings,
    Hollywood with a touch of twang,
    To be a star you gotta bang bang bang,
    Bend those strings till the Hank comes out,
    Make all the drunk girls scream and shout,
    We love it we hate it we're all just trying to make it,
    In this crazy town,

    One year they reposes your truck,
    And the next you make a couple million bucks,

    It's a crazy town full of neon dreams,
    Everybody plays everybody sings,
    Hollywood with a touch of twang,
    To be a star you gotta,
    Bend those strings till the Hank comes out,
    Make all the drunk girls scream and shout,
    We love it we hate it we're all just trying to make it,
    We love it we hate it we all came here to make it,
    In this crazy town,
    It's a crazy town. Writer/s: BRETT JONES, RODNEY CLAWSON
    Publisher: AMPLIFIED ADMINISTRATION, Anthem Entertainment
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  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 2010 {June 13th} "Crazy Town"* by Jason Aldean peaked at #2 {for 5 weeks} on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, for the first three weeks it was at #2, the #1 record for those three weeks was "The House That Built Me" by Miranda Lambert, and for it's fourth and fifth weeks at #2, "Water" by Brad Paisley was in the top spot...
    As noted above, "Crazy Town" reached #51 on Billboard's Top 100 chart...
    Between 2005 and 2019 the Macon, Georgia native had fifty three records on the Hot Country Singles chart, thirty two made the Top 10 with ten reaching #1...
    Five of his fifty three charted records were duets, one each with Kelly Clarkson, Miranda Lambert, Colt Ford, Jordan Rager, and Tyler Farr...
    Plus he charted as a member of a trio with Luke Bryan and Eric Church {The Only Way I Know", #5 in 2012}...
    Jason Aldean Williams celebrated his 43rd birthday four months ago on February 28th, 2020...
    * "Crazy Town" was Jason Aldean's first of six of his records to peak at #2 on the Hot Country Songs chart...
    And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, the remainder of the Hot Country Songs' Top 10 on June 13th,2010:
    At #3. "Water" by Brad Paisley
    #4. "The Man I Want To Be" by Chris Young
    #5. "She Won't Be Lonely Long" by Clay Walker
    #6. "I Gotta Get To You" by George Strait
    #8. "Gimme That Girl" by Joe Nichols
    #7. "Rain Is A Good Thing" by Luke Bryan
    #9. "Undo It" by Carrie Underwood
    #10. "I Keep On Loving You" by Reba McEntire
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