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Braddock killed the song's main character too soon in their early versions. Billy kept telling them to kill the guy at a different time and then have the woman come to his funeral. He gave the song to me, and I carried it for more than a year, also convinced that it needed rewriting. Billy
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for the producer as for the singer, featuring all the hallmarks of
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To the astonishment of Jones and most others involved, "He
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retrospective, Sherrill recalls a heated exchange during one recording session: "I said 'That's not the melody!' and he said 'Yeah, but it's a better melody.' I said 'It might be—Kristofferson would think so too, it's his melody!'" In the same documentary, Sherrill claims that Jones was in such bad
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and tells the story of a man whose lover leaves him. Vowing to love her until he dies, he keeps old letters and photos from their previous romance and hangs on to hope that she would "come back again". Eventually a day comes when the man, in heavily veiled but graphic language, dies—"all dressed up
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introduced Jones to the song in 1978 but, according to
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appeared in the recording studio though Jones could see them with
Sherrill through the tinted screen. Jones' second take would be the one that would be released following Sherrill's remastering of the song. This was seen in the last part of the Showtime miniseries
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physical shape during this period that "the recitation was recorded 18 months after the first verse was" and added that the last words Jones said about "He
Stopped Loving Her Today" was "Nobody'll buy that morbid son of a bitch".
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When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got to Be Cool)
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1836:I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair
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1378:If My Heart Had Windows
1302:She Thinks I Still Care
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1172:You Gotta Be My Baby
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1886:Waltz of the Angels
1875:Did I Ever Tell You
1804:Writing on the Wall
1790:I'm a One Woman Man
1744:The Right Left Hand
1274:The Window Up Above
1207:Seasons of My Heart
998:Allen, Bob (1996).
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2288:Good Hearted Woman
2235:Okie from Muskogee
2063:Hank Williams, Jr.
2050:with George Jones)
1982:You Better Move On
1952:(with Gene Pitney)
1950:That's All It Took
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468:– harmonica
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396:Johnny Cash
319:Same Ole Me
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149:Producer(s)
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1957:Maybellene
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1564:The Battle
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