Tim McGraw (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Tim McGraw


Caption =
Artist = Taylor Swift
from Album = Taylor Swift
Released = October 24, 2006
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Country pop
Length = 3:54 (Album Version)
3:34 (Radio Edit)
Composer = Taylor Swift
Label = Big Machine
Writer = Taylor Swift, Liz Rose
Producer = Nathan Chapman
Certification = Gold [ [http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS RIAA] ]
Last single =
This single = "Tim McGraw"
(2006)
Next single = "Teardrops on My Guitar"
(2007)
Misc = External music video|" [http://www.cmt.com/videos/taylor-swift/99319/tim-mcgraw.jhtml Tim McGraw] " at CMT.com

"Tim McGraw" is the debut single of American country pop artist Taylor Swift. She was sixteen years old when she debuted with the song, which she co-wrote with Liz Rose. The song tells of Taylor's remembrance of a summer love, and how an un-named song by country music artist Tim McGraw (identified later on as "Can't Tell Me Nothin'" from his "Live Like You Were Dying" albumFact|date=August 2008) brings back memories of that love.

Swift has said she wrote the song during math class in high school. The song, she says, is about her and her boyfriend, when he was moving away to go to college, and they would eventually have to break up. Taylor goes onto say, "I started thinking of all the things that reminded me of him."

Alternate versions

On the album version of the song, the first stanzas are sung a second time at the end; the radio edit ends after the last chorus.

The line "Someday you'll turn your radio on" in the final chorus was altered in some markets, with "your radio" being replaced with either the name of the radio station or some popular show or host featured on that station. A similar change was made for the song on Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40, a radio countdown show, wherein the line was altered to "And turn the Bob Kingsley Countdown on".Also when played on Froggy 98.3, It says," Some day you'll turn Froggy on".

Chart positions

References

* [http://gactv.com GAC]
* [http://www.cmt.com CMT]
* [http://www.cmt.com/artists/news/1574118/20071112/swift__taylor.jhtml CMT interview identifying inspiration for song]