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Beer for My Horses van Toby Keith and Willie Nelson is geschreven door Keith en Scotty Emerick.
Het nummer is afkomstig van het zevende album van Toby Unleashed. De song was de vierde single van dit album en kwam uit in juli 2003.
"Beer for My Horses" kreeg gemengde recensies van muziekcritici. De single bereikte # 22 in de Billboard Hot 100 en was daarmee Keith's hoogste hit in zijn carrière op dat moment. Het nummer stond ook zes weken op # 1 in de Amerikaanse Billboard Hot Country Songs (een van de twee nummers die zo lang op nummer 1 bleef voor Toby Keith). Dit was Keith's 11e # 1 hit en Nelson's 23e en zijn eerste sinds "Nothing I Can Do About It Now" in 1989. "Beer for My Horses" is platina gecertificeerd door de Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
De begeleidende videoclip werd geregisseerd door Michael Salomon en ging in première op 9 april 2003.
"Beer for My Horses" maakte Willie Nelson ook de oudste artiest die op 70-jarige leeftijd bovenaan de country charts stond.
De uitdrukking "Beer for My Horses" werdt gezegd in de film Bite the Bullet uit 1975 door Jan Michael Vincent.
"Beer For My Horses"
[Toby Keith:]
Willie man, come on, six o'clock news
Said somebody's been shot, somebody's been abused
Somebody blew up a building
Somebody stole a car
Somebody got away
Somebody didn't get too far, yeah
They didn't get too far
[Willie Nelson:]
Grandpappy told my pappy back in my day, "Son,
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done."
Take all the rope in Texas
Find a tall oak tree,
Round up all of them bad boys
Hang them high in the street
For all the people to see
[Toby Keith and Willie Nelson:]
That justice is the one thing you should always find
You gotta saddle up your boys
You gotta draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tune
And we'll all meet back at the local saloon
We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing, "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses."
[Toby Keith and Willie Nelson:]
We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
Too much corruption and crime in the streets
It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground
Send 'em all to their maker and he'll settle 'em down
You can bet he'll settle 'em down
'Cause justice is the one thing you should always find
You gotta saddle up your boys
You gotta draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tune
And we'll all meet back at the local saloon
And we'll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing, "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses."
"Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses."
Justice is the one thing you should always find
You gotta saddle up your boys
You gotta draw a hard line
When the gun smoke settles we'll sing a victory tune
And we'll all meet back at the local saloon
And we'll raise up our glasses against evil forces
Singing, "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses."
Singing, "Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses."