The Chain of Love

Infobox single
Name = The Chain of Love
Artist = Clay Walker
from Album = Live, Laugh, Love
Released = early 2000
Format = CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Country
Length = 5:04
Label = Giant
Writer = Rory Lee
Jonnie Barnett
Producer = Doug Johnson
Clay Walker
Last single = "Live, Laugh, Love"
(1999)
This single = "The Chain of Love"
(2000)
Next single = "Once in a Lifetime"
(2000)

"The Chain Of Love" is a single by country singer Clay Walker. Released in early 2000 as the third single from his 1999 album "Live, Laugh, Love", "The Chain of Love" reached a peak of #3 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, providing Walker with his thirteenth Top Ten hit on that chart. He would not see the Top Five again until his 2007 single, "Fall", which peaked at #5. The song also crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100 charts, where it peaked at #40.

Content

A mid-tempo song in the key of D Major, "The Chain of Love" centralizes on a series of characters who, by helping each other in some way, form a "chain of love" amongst them.

In the first verse, a male character named Joe is driving, when he notices a lady whose Mercedes-Benz is stopped with a flat tire. He then stops and changes the tire for her; after she asks how much she should pay him, he states that she can repay by continuing the chain of love, as stated in the chorus:

:"You don't owe me a thing, I've been there, too:"And someone once helped me out just the way I'm helping you:"If you really wanna pay me back, here's what you do:"Don't let the chain of love end with you."

In the second verse, the lady has headed down the road to a small café; while eating there, she notices that the waitress is pregnant and exhausted. After paying the waitress with a $100 bill, she (the lady in the Mercedes) leaves behind a note on the napkin without accepting her change. Written on the napkin is the same request stated by Joe in the first chorus — an invitation to continue the chain of love.

The waitress, by the third verse, has returned to her home. Joining her husband in bed, she begins to think of the money and the note left by the lady, before turning to her husband and whispering to him, "Everything's gonna be alright / I love you, Joe."

Music video

The music video for this song features Walker singing at an abandoned drive-in theater.

Chart performance

This song entered the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart at number 74 in late 1999, released as an album cut. It was officially released as a single in early 2000, and re-entered the country chart at #68 on the chart dated January 15, 2000. It charted for 34 weeks on that chart, and quickly climbed to #3 on the chart dated May 27, 2000, where it held for two weeks, before falling to #4 afterwards. The next week, the song climbed back to #3 for two more weeks and then fell. It also peaked at #40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Charts

External links

* [http://video.aol.com/video/music-clay-walker-the-chain-of-love/1100811 Music video at AOL.com]

References