Riding with Private Malone
- Riding with Private Malone
Infobox Single
Name = Riding With Private Malone
Cover size =
Caption =
Artist = David Ball
from Album = Amigo
Released = 2001
Format = CD Single
Recorded = 2001
Genre = Country
Length = 4:35 (album version)
Label = Dualtone
Writer = Wood Newton
Thom Shepherd
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = "I Want to with You"
(1999)
This single = "Riding with Private Malone"
(2001)
Next single = "She Always Talked About Mexico"
(2002)
Misc ="Riding with Private Malone" is the title of a song recorded by American country music artist David Ball. Released in late 2001 as the first single from his fifth studio album "Amigo", the song reached a peak of #2 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts (now Hot Country Songs). It was Ball's first Top 40 country hit since "Look What Followed Me Home" in 1995.
Content
Based on an urban legend, [cite web |url=http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/deadson.asp |title=The Dead Vet's Vette |accessdate=2008-03-02 |last=Mikkelson |first=Barbara |work=Snopes.com] the song describes a narrator who purchases a Chevrolet Corvette through the classified ads. Upon purchasing the car, he opens its glove compartment, where he finds a note written by the car's former owner, a deceased soldier. The note tells of the car's origins:
:"My name is Private Andrew Malone:"If you're reading this, then I didn't make it home:"But for every dream that shattered, another one comes true:"This car was once a dream of mine, now it belongs to you:"And though you may take her and make her your own:"You'll always be riding with Private Malone."
Throughout the rest of the song, the singer fixes up the car and starts driving it; on some occasions, he claims to see a "soldier riding shotgun" in the front seat (i.e. the soldier's ghost). By the third verse, the car has crashed, and although he does not recall the accident, he discovers that he was rescued by the private.
Chart performance
This song entered the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart at number 55 on the chart dated September 8, 2001. It was also Ball's fastest-climbing single, reaching its peak of #2 after 14 weeks on the chart, where it held #2 for one week. All total, the song spent 22 weeks on the chart. This song also peaked at #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and spent 20 weeks on that chart.
Charts
External links
*YouTube|Q0gX-bipodU|Music video
References
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