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chart dated April 19, 2008. The song spent a total of 40 weeks as an active single on the country charts, and became the first Top 10 hit of
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and singing, with various black-and-white photographs (which
Johnson borrowed from his grandmother) spread out on the floor around him. Eventually, color begins to sweep across the photos from the outside, working its way in until Johnson himself is also in color.
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and the day he and his wife first got married, he recalls his own life story to his grandson, telling him that " should have seen it in color" (i.e., that the grandson would have had to have been there himself to understand what each experience was truly like).
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was originally slated to record the song, until
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