I'll Think of a Reason Later

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Artist = Lee Ann Womack
Album = Some Things I Know
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Genre = Country
Length = 3:37
Label = MCA Nashville
Writer = Tony Martin
Tim Nichols
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Last single = "A Little Past Little Rock"
(1998)
This single = "I'll Think Of A Reason Later"
(1999)
Next single = "(Now You See Me) Now You Don't"
(1999)
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"I'll Think Of A Reason Later" is a single by American country music singer Lee Ann Womack that peaked at #2 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart. It was the second single released from her CD, "Some Things I Know".

Content

The song is an up-tempo number in which the narrator is a woman who is jealous of her ex-boyfriend leaving her for another woman, and she does not like this new woman.

In the first verse, she starts with how she heard that the boyfriend was going to marry the woman, who is from Denver, Colorado. She finds a picture of the woman, along with an announcement of the engagement, in a Sunday paper that her sister had. She states her reasons of hating this girl in the chorus:

:"It may be my family's redneck nature, :"Rubbin' off, bringin' out unlady-like behavior:"It sure ain't Christian to judge a stranger, :"But, I don't like her:"She may be a stranger who spends all winter:"Bringin' the homeless blankets and dinner, :"A regular Nobel Peace Prize winner, :"But I really hate her:"I'll think of a reason later."

In the second verse, she states her plans to get revenge on this girl (i.e. drawing horns on her picture, and using a marker to color her front tooth black). She then states her jealousy of her and the narrator's ex-boyfriend being a couple, and also states that "seeing her with him tends to enlarge [her jealous bone] ."

Chart performance

The song debuted at #62 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated December 26, 1998. It charted for 25 weeks on that chart, and reached #2 on the country chart dated April 10, 1999, and remained there for four weeks, having been blocked from Number One by Kenny Chesney's "How Forever Feels". It also peaked at #38 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Womack her first crossover on that chart, in addition to reaching #1 on Canada's country chart.

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