TIM MCGRAWB - RED RAGTOP

RED RAGTOP

TIM MCGRAW

SONGWRITER: JASON SANDBRINK WHITE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: TIM MCGRAW AND THE DANCEHALL DOCTORS

LABEL: CURB RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 2002

 

               Samuel Timothy McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American singer, actor, and record producer. McGraw has released fifteen studio albums (eleven for Curb Records, three for Big Machine Records and one for Arista Nashville). 10 of those albums have reached number 1 on the Top Country Albums charts, with his 1994 breakthrough album Not a Moment Too Soon being the top country album of 1994. All of these albums have produced 65 singles, 25 of which have reached number 1 on the Hot Country Songs or Country Airplay charts. Three of these singles — "It's Your Love", "Just to See You Smile", and "Live Like You Were Dying" — were respectively the top country songs of 1997, 1998, and 2004 according to Billboard Year-End. He has also won three Grammy Awards, 14 Academy of Country Music awards, 11 Country Music Association (CMA) awards, 10 American Music Awards, and three People's Choice Awards. His Soul2Soul II Tour, which was done in partnership with his wife, Faith Hill, is one of the highest-grossing tours in country music history, and one of the top 5 among all genres of music. He has sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

      McGraw has ventured into acting, with supporting roles in The Blind Side (with Sandra Bullock), Friday Night Lights, The Kingdom, Tomorrowland, and Four Christmases (with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon), and The Shack, and lead roles in Flicka (2006) and Country Strong (2010). He was a minority owner of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats.

        In acknowledgement of his grandfather's Italian heritage, McGraw was honored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) in 2004, receiving the NIAF Special Achievement Award in Music during the Foundation's 29th Anniversary Gala.

             He has been married to singer Faith Hill since 1996, and is a son of former MLB pitcher Tug McGraw.

           "Red Rag Top" is a song written by Jason White and recorded by American country music artist Tim McGraw. It was released in September 2002 as the first single from McGraw’s álbum Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors. The song peaked at number 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart in early 2003 and reached number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

I was twenty and she was eighteen

We were just about as wild as we were green

In the ways of the world

 

She picked me up in that red rag top

We were free of the folks and hiding from the cops

On a summer night

Runnin' all the red lights

 

We parked way out in a clearin' in a grove

And the night was as hot as a coal burnin' stove

We were cookin' with gas, knew it had to last

 

In the back of that red rag top

She said, "Please don't stop."

 

Well, the very first time her mother met me

Her green-eyed girl had been a mother-to-be for two weeks

 

I was out of a job and she was in school

And life was fast and the world was cruel

We were young and wild

We decided not to have a child

 

So we did what we did and we tried to forget

And we swore up and down there would be no regrets

In the morning light

But on the way home that night

 

On the back of that red rag top

She said, "Please don't stop

Lovin' me."

 

We took one more trip around the sun

But it was all make-believe in the end

No I can't say where she is today

I can't remember who I was back then

 

Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins

And there's no such thing as what "might've been"

That's a waste of time

Drive you outta your mind

 

I was stopped at a red light just yesterday

Beside a young girl in a cabriolet

And her eyes were green

I was in an old scene

 

I was back in that red rag top

On the day she stopped

Loving me

I was back in that red rag top

On the day she stopped

Loving me.