I said, ‘Well, let’s forget about the 'Midnight Cigarette.’ Man, you’ve got the perfect idea for the song there.‘’ And it just kind of flowed there. Jon loved that line, so we wrote it down, and then he said, 'Here’s a line here: 'He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger.’' I went to the writing session with the idea to write a song called ‘Midnight Cigarette.’ Basically, that turned out to be the first line of ‘Whiskey Lullaby’: ‘She put him out like the burnin’ end of a midnight cigarette.‘ That was what I wanted to write the whole song about.

He said, ‘Man, I’m sorry for the way I’ve acted the last couple of weeks.’ And his friend said to him, ‘That’s alright, Jon I’ve put the bottle to my head and pulled the trigger a few times in my life.’ So when Jon came to the writing session, that was fresh on his mind. When he decided to sober up and come back and join the living again, he apologized to his friend. Whiskey Lullaby Lyrics by Alison Krauss from the Mud on the Tires album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more: She put him out. For years and years, she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath. MELISSA: The rumors flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself.

And he went over to a friend’s house and crashed for a couple of weeks. And when we buried him beneath the willow, The angels sang a whiskey lullaby. Jon was going through some pretty rough times back then: He had gotten a divorce and lost his writing deal and his record deal all within just a day or two of each other. And when we buried him beneath the willow The angels sang a whiskey lullaby The rumors flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath She finally drank her pain away a little at a time But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind Until the night She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger And finally drank away his memory Life is short, but this time it was bigger Than the strength she had to get up. In an interview with The Boot, the songwriter Bill Anderson talked about how the song was mainly inspired by Jon Randall during a very rough moment in his life: She put him out like the burnin end of a midnight cigarette She broke his heart, he spent his whole life tryin to. She put him out like the burnin end of a midnight cigarette / She broke his heart he spent his.

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