These Are My People

Infobox Single
Name = These Are My People


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Artist = Rodney Atkins
from Album = If You're Going Through Hell
Released = 2007
Format = CD single, digital download
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Genre = Country
Length = 3:34
Label = Curb
Writer = Rivers Rutherford, Dave Berg
Producer = Rodney Atkins, Ted Hewitt
Last single = "Watching You"
(2006)
This single = "These Are My People"
(2007)
Next single = "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)"
(2007)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = If You're Going Through Hell
Type = Studio
prev_track =
prev_no =
this_track = "These Are My People"
track_no = 1
next_track = "About The South"
next_no = 2

"These Are My People" is a single, released in 2007, by American country music artist Rodney Atkins. It is the third single released from his 2006 platinum album "If You're Going Through Hell", [cite web |url=http://www.gactv.com/gac/nw_headlines/article/0,,GAC_26063_5677808,00.html |title=Rodney Atkins Closes in on Another No. 1 |accessdate=2007-08-23 |date=2007-08-20 |format=html |work=GAC.com] as well as the third straight Number One single from that album. [cite web |url=http://www.thetennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071026/SPECIAL09/710260373 |title=Rodney Atkins celebrates "My People" success |accessdate=2007-12-28 |last=Watts |first=Cindy |date=2007-10-26 |work=The Tennesseean]

The song is an up-tempo which is introduced by a fiddle solo, with guitar also accompanying. The lyrics are the narrator's description of his rural lifestyle: specifically, the friends with whom he plays church league softball and drinks beer at a bar. The first verse references the Lynyrd Skynyrd songs "Gimme Three Steps", "Simple Man", and "The Ballad of Curtis Loew". "Lovin' and laughin' and bustin' our asses", a line from the first verse, was changed to "…bustin' our backs" in the radio edit.

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