Lucky Old Sun
Lucky Old Sun is the twelfth studio album by country music artist Kenny Chesney, released on October 14, 2008 as the first release for Blue Chair Records, Chesney's personal division of the BNA Records record label. The album produced two singles in "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" and "Down the Road", which were both number ones on the country charts. Chesney's versions of those two songs are also duets with The Wailers and Mac McAnally respectively.
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The lead-off single, "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven", was released on August 11, 2008. In October, this song became a Number One hit on the Billboard country charts. The next single, "Down the Road", is a duet with Mac McAnally. MacAnally had previously released this a single for himself from his 1990 album Simple Life. This rendition has also reached Number One.
Two of this album's songs were previously recorded by Willie Nelson: "Ten with a Two" was previously a single in 1990 from his album Born for Trouble and "I'm Alive" was recorded on his album Moment of Forever. "That Lucky Old Sun", recorded as a duet with Nelson, is a cover of the 1949 pop standard made famous by Frankie Laine. Chesney's version of "I'm Alive", a duet with Dave Matthews, also appears on his 2009 compilation album Greatest Hits II, from which it was released as its second single in August 2009.
Lucky Old Sun
ALBUMS
- Suburban Home Mix Tape 5: Someone's Gonna Die released: 2010
Suburban Home Mix Tape 5: Someone's Gonna Die
Released 2010- Swear to God
- Postcards and Apologies (Two Cow Garage)
- Postcards and Apologies
- Waiting Around to Die (Townes Van Zandt)
- Waiting Around to Die
- Sleep Well (demo)
- Wait So Long
- End of the Burning Moon
- Exit Wounds
- Placemat Blues
- Bastards of the Highway
- Kate
- Unsatisfied
- Fast in Last
- Stella Lovely
- Another Two Weeks
- Down So Low
- Break Your Heart
- Louis Collins
- Devil Between
- Back in Style
- ... Not Fine
- Drift
- Take It Upstairs, Einstein
- Lilybelle
- Elvis in Jerusulum
- Beautiful & Damned
- I Love You (But I Don't Trust You)
- Half Asleep
- If You Don't Like Hank Williams
Lucky Old Sun
Up in the morning
out on the job
work like the devil for my pay
lucky old usn
aint got nothing to do
roll around heaven all day
fuss with my woman
toil for my kids
sweat til i am wrinkled and grey
but that lucky old sun
aint got nothin to do
roll around heaven all day
dear lord above
cant you see im cryin
tears are in my eyes
send down a cloud with a silver lining
take me to paradise
show me that river
lead me across
and take all my troubles away
like the lucky old sun
ill have nothin to do
roll around heaven all day
dear lord above
cant you see im cryin
tears are in my eyes
send down a cloud with a silver lining
take me to paradise
show me that river
lead me across
and take all my troubles away
like the lucky old sun
ill have nothin to do
roll around heaven all day
but roll around heaven all day....