Chicago is the home of the blues, New Orleans jazz,down home country soul has no color, but it does have a message. I appreciate your critiques, but sometimes you you judge before the music happens
This song came out when I was pregnant. My husband was told he had to choose the funeral homes for both me and our daughter. That neither of us would live. We both made it strictly by the grace of God. But this song was hard for him to hear back then. Now our daughter is 24.
Knowing this song, I started crying at "Johnny's daddy is taking him fishin'". The whole video, you were so happy and I'm like, "oh you poor, sweet man..."
If you look at the father at the first of the video very close it’s not the same man at the end of the the video. The doctor said it was a baby boy. As you listen and look at the end the little boy is not the same boy. There a quick glimpse of a woman coming toward them. In my opinion the boy at the en is Johnny’s son named Johnny after his dad and that glimpse is “that same sweet girl” the got his prayer!
watching people react to this song is like being with someone when then watch Lion King for the first time you know whats coming but don't say anything
@8:00 That moment happen to my wife. Having never heard this song before I said similar words as I hit the floor on my knees. My wife hemorrhaged after giving birth do our first son. She was complaining saying that she peed herself in the bed, and wanted to clean herself up. It was when I went to remove the sheet did I see the pool of blood that laid in the hospital bed. It rolled of the bed into the floor like a stream. I quickly ran for the nurse, and they made me talk with other nurses in the hallway while they frantically worked on my wife in the room. Thankfully my story has a happy ending like the song. They were able to stop the bleeding, and we were able to discharge about three days later while bringing home a healthy baby boy.
I’m so happy for you. My Mum was born very prematurely in 1938, and my Nan was haemorrhaging badly. The doctor just shook his head, and told Pop to go home. Pop rode his bicycle home and was sitting on the back step just looking towards the heavens when suddenly one of the stars started getting bigger and bigger and brighter and brighter. Pop got back on his bicycle and raced back to the hospital where the doctor greeted him, and said I don’t know how, but they have both somehow pulled through, and they are going to be alright. Sadly Nan and Pop lost their second baby under the same circumstances, but eight years after Mum was born they had a little boy. People take childbirth for granted, but things can still go wrong.
Sad watching someone's reaction for the first. You were laughing, celebrating life, and then you went dead pan silent. Its tough bro... country music just pulls those strings.
I went through the exact same situation when our first son was born. I had that same conversation with God. Fortunately my wife and son both pulled through. This song brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.
This song hits me real hard... my mom passed away when I was born. I was 2 months early and almost died twice, the doctors brought me back. My left lung collapsed. My dad, a 6 foot 2 soldier during Vietnam, hit his knees and prayed the same. That was almost 50 years ago.
When he had that ear to ear grin at the beginning of the 3rd verse & paused it RIGHT before the plot twist, he's like yeah this is awesome and I'm like👀...dude...no...too soon...
I love that moment in the second verse, about the stranger pulling a gun, when they actually realize what kind of song this is, followed by the immediate heart wrench of the third verse. I feel like people dont give Country...at least from 2010 and back, enough credit for the feelings it can provoke with simple words.
God has 3 answers and knows what he's doing. 1.Yes 2.No 3.Not now. YES, she dies...but it's not without reason. HIS WILL BE DONE. Not for our understanding. Really sucks for us, sometimes
That is why we appreciate the now. When my Mom passed, my Dad kept crying, " My Baby Girl is all alone, she needs me." I knew then I was never the baby girl. My Mom was, as I held my Dad back from jumping into the grave with her. That was tough. He made me promise no resuscitation if anything happened to him. 4 months later the hospital nurse called. He'd had a stroke. I spoke with him one last time. Kept my promise as hard as it was to do. Another call came that night. To say he passed too. That he probably did not feel anything. I felt the loss of him and of my Mom all over again. Difficult being an only child and most aunts and uncles already gone just before them. So this song always gets me. I 😢
I am so, so very sorry for your losses. Keep in thought that Mom & Dad are reunited and holding one another tight. They patiently await to be fully reunited after your gift & story of your life unfolds and last curtain calls... To walk through those beautiful gates and sights only meant for our paradise lost but now found. I'm sorry I get to deep in comments but thinking of seeing my own mother & brother again gives me goosebumps & chills knowing that death is not the end but aknew beginning of flowing energy that simply changes but never destroyed. I am going to see my aunt's, uncle's, cousins, brother and my dear mother one day🥺🙏🏻!! My father took losing mom really bad he could not talk to anyone for months. My brother accidentally shot himself then 1 yr later my mother just let go of this world, mom's sister died 2mos after mom.. these souls were taken back home in only 4 1/2 years most my family were gone. It's me and dad now.... Worst thing was with mom the doctor said she would be fine so I left hospital to go eat, shower and change cloths so on way back not even six hours later doctor calls and says please hurry to hospital because mom's organs were completely shutting down.. my God why?... I held mama's hand as she writhed and shook in pain, the doctor took me over to the hallway with my wife and said something that will stay with me forever.. " We can save her.. but she will be in horrible pain & agony, we can pro-long her life and at best 6 months. Do you want to us to pro-long her life or give her a big dose of morphine & other drugs to completely stop her pain and gently pass? ' I had to choose because dad was too messed up to make any decisions... I chose for her pain to end... And after I looked at my wife and said my God what have I done..... 😞?... But the promise God keeps is what helps me hold on, try to live life to the fullest and pray that I take up God's offer so we can have a big reunification one day!!!!!! 🙏🏻
I am so, so very sorry for your losses. Keep in thought that Mom & Dad are reunited and holding one another tight. They patiently await to be fully reunited after your gift & story of your life unfolds and last curtain calls... To walk through those beautiful gates and sights only meant for our paradise lost but now found. I'm sorry I get to deep in comments but thinking of seeing my own mother & brother again gives me goosebumps & chills knowing that death is not the end but aknew beginning of flowing energy that simply changes but never destroyed. I am going to see my aunt's, uncle's, cousins, brother
She lives folks. You see him and his child in the end as he helps the child across the small stream and then his wife running to catch up with the picnic basket. Per Wikipedia: The song tells the story of two young lovers dealing with difficult scenarios at three different stages in their lives. In each situation, the man does all he can to make sure that different people "don't take the girl." In the first verse, the young man (Johnny) is eight years old, about to go on a fishing trip with his father. A young, unnamed girl, apparently Johnny's age, is also present, with a fishing pole in her hand. Johnny doesn't want the girl to come fishing with them. So he begs his father to "take any boy in the world / Daddy, please, don't take the girl". The song's second verse finds Johnny and the girl ten years later, now as teenagers. The two have since fallen in love and are now dating. As Johnny and his girlfriend are on a date at the "picture show" (i.e., the movie theater), they encounter a stranger with a gun. The man grabs the girl's arm and tells Johnny to give in to his demands. Johnny surrenders his money, wallet, credit cards, a watch that his grandfather gave him, and even his car keys so that the girl would be safe (in the music video, the crook's seen running away with only the wallet). Verse three takes place five years after the second verse. At this point, Johnny and the girl are now (presumably) married and expecting their first child, and the girl is eventually rushed to the hospital to have her baby delivered. The baby, a boy, is safely delivered, but the doctor informs Johnny that his wife is "fading fast" (presumably dying from childbirth complications). Johnny then collapses to his knees and prays to God that his wife survives, even asking that his own life be taken instead of his wife's, as long as she's okay. The music video shows that Johnny's wife does indeed survive as she is seen in the last scene running to meet Johnny and his little boy with a picnic basket. The song ends with a repeat of the song's opening line: "Johnny's daddy was taking him fishin' when he was eight years old".
Hwndelite Luckyilivehawaii if you hadn’t seen the video and only heard the song you wouldn’t know. I didn’t see the video till last year and I’ve been listening to the song since I was little
ispumpkinking Opinions vary... however, just watch the video and you will see her at the end. As per Wikipedia.... The music video shows that Johnny's wife does indeed survive as she is seen in the last scene running to meet Johnny and his little boy with a picnic basket. The song ends with a repeat of the song's opening line: "Johnny's daddy was taking him fishin' when he was eight years old".
One of the most beautiful songs ever in country music. Us country folks do emotional investment on another level. A good country singer will pull u in, get u fully invested, only to hit u in every emotion u have. This song perfected that.
It never says he lost her? It's left open for interpretation. I prefer to think she pulled through because of Johnny's love. And now he has two girls he'd die for.
ramonyzquierdo The last scene is of the dad and the son fishing, I didn’t see a girl. Either way it doesn’t matter, I will always hear it. And if you listen to the song on the radio how could you think she lived. No way possible.
This song gets me everytime, Tim McGraw was one of my wifes favorite country artists. The day the doctor told me she wouldnt make it through the night, I dropped to my knees just like that. Begging god to take me and not her. I must have played this song 100 times that morning after she passed. Great reaction of this song.
When I was giving birth to our son, I had to have an emergency c-section because our son was in severe distress and they had to literally run me on the gurney from the delivery room to an OR with a Dr. and a nurse riding on it prepping me as we were moving. We got to the OR and they didn’t even put drapes up they just started cutting so I watched my own c-section, and my then husband (we’re divorced now but on good terms) walked in as they were opening me up, all he could say to me at that moment was “I saw your organs” to which I, obviously in shock, responded “which ones,” we both were in emergency medicine at one point. As soon as they got our son out he was immediately fine and my ex had enough time to hold him for a minute and put him next to me so I could give him a kiss before I started bleeding out. So the doctors had to grab our son from him and get him out while they fought to keep me from dying. Thankfully after 4 units of blood, that they didn’t even have the time to warm up because everything happened so fast, and some amazing naval surgeons at Balboa hospital being rock stars they got me stabilized. My ex that was a corpsman(medic) said that was the single scariest situation of his life, it was for me until I knew our sone was in the clear then I only remember bits and pieces. FYI when you’re actively dying your brain releases a ton of chemicals that can make some people extremely calm, shock is a hell of a thing.
I remember the first time I watched this video. I was active duty. A bunch of friends and I were playing a board game and had CMT on the television as background. When it finished, six grown men crying just as the pizza delivery girl showed up in the day room.
That sounds like a marvelous country lyric itself...and back in the day (the songwriters in Nashville all knowing each other) there was actually something of a tradition of songs having sequels...so this new lyric could, in a classic mode, reference "Don't Take The Girl"...And your pizza delivery person WOULD have to be a girl! Great anecdote.
It upsets me because every person that I have seen react to this did not look at the very end of the video. You see a little boy and his daddy. But what you do not SEE is momma running toward them. You all forget that God can and will answer prayers. And He Did. Look at that video again. ;-) My God is an AWESOME GOD!!!
@@johoney5458 if you listen closely, they are crying because someone, or the dog, died or left! I grew up on real country music and every song I learned had one, or more, of those elements. Listen to why they are "crying" in their beer!
A dear friend of mine wrote this song. Craig J Martin, he just passed away. A musical genius! Tim McGraw did an amazing job! One of the best songs I've ever heard live and I've been to many!!!
One of my all time favorite country songs. It catches everyone off guard the first time and i still get goosebumps everytime i hear it. That being said, most people (including myself) dont realize that Tim is NOT just repeating the opening lines at the end of the song. It's actually Johnny and his girl (she survived) taking the new little Johnny fishing. You can even see the girl/mom run up to them at the end.
And a true story for ya: My gf at the time (who is now my wife) had a situation where only immediate family could be in the room. The doctor and nurse told me i had to leave. I looked at them with a tear in my eye and i didnt have to say a word. They knew. They knew i wasnt going anywhere and it was going to take more than a nurse and a doctor to make me leave that room.
The Travis Tritt trilogy "Anymore", "Tell Me I Was Dreaming" and "If I Lost You". Those videos are the most tear jerking things I've ever seen. You would probably cry
"It started off as a wonderful song." It ENDED as a wonderful song, too. Life happens...Good, bad, or indifferent...life happens. The magic of music makes you feel the story, not just hear it.
That my friend is the best thing anybody has ever put in words about music. Cause if u can't feel it, its not worth listening to. So thank you for your true answer.
This is 2021..this song still bring me to tears. Man you breaking down makes me wish men still feels this way towards a woman. Tim McGraw you did this one💯
Same here...If Christmas shoes or this song comes on when I'm driving I have to pull over so I don't crash because I can't see the road through the tears.
You had the same reaction everyone else in the world has, when they 1st hear this song. It's the second time you hear it, that kills ya, lol. Loved that you narrated your opinion throughout 😊
This song was playing in waiting room as I was having my first son I almost passed away and my first born did I still have trouble listening to this song
As a Navy pediatric corpsman there were times when Mom died giving birth, or, the baby was stllborn, or died shortly after birth, and, one of the most heartrending parts was telling Dad, I Still get emotional just remembering these events!
Tim is very down to earth. My brother played baseball with him as kids. My Son went to the feed store one day and Tim came in. They talked about horses. Needless to say we were happy for his stardom. He hasn't forgot where he came from.
As a pregnant woman with her second baby on the way, this hits deep. I almost lost my life during my first delivery from losing too much blood because of a doctor error. This second pregnancy was unexpected and yes it is scary, but my children's lives are worth more than my own.
I went through 18 hours of labor, and ended up in an emergency c-section. The epidural only worked on half my body, and I felt WAY WAY more than I wanted to. My second one was scheduled, and was so much better! I hope that you have an uneventful, and easy birth though! How much longer to go?
Me and my wife are going through our first pregnancy now. She is 8 weeks and we have heard its heartbeat and it is the most beautiful sound in the world. Even though everything is technically fine and perfect right now it is one of the scariest things I've ever experienced lol
Welcome to country music... it’s a bi polar roller coaster with this song!!! Do more country music reactions it’s real life touch your heart, pull on your heart strings, hell yeah, party fun or any of those or all of the emotions. I cry every time I hear this song! 😭😭😭 I love me some new country!
Tim’s song makes me cry bc most parents have been in that situation, mostly with our kids being born & almost not making it, yes it pulls at your heart strings 🙁
I can't listen to "Butterfly Kisses" because it came out about the time my girlfriend miscarried. I was 21, so 23 years ago. Haven't thought about it in a long time. Hard to believe, he or she would be an adult now, possibly with kids of their own.
I use to drive 7 hundred miles to see my wife of now 25 years and new born daughter. Every Fri and Sunday. Just to see them. When I crossed the Tennessee border that song and the song escape Rupert Holmes always played. My wife laughs at me getting emotional 😭 when these songs come on. Will drive through all storms to be close to them.
PLEASE react to “If you’re reading this” by Tim McGraw. It’s much later than this song, and it’s very emotional, but everyone should here it once! Also I love your rock reactions. You should try Layla by Eric Clapton, “Life in the fast lane” by Eagles, “Hotel California” by Eagles, and Wasted Time by Eagles (one of the prettiest songs ever recorded) I’m only 31 so I can vouch that they stand the rest of time! Love your channel!!!
I coded having a 10lb boy in 2010. I don't know how (had a DNR), but I came back. I heard him cry and that is the last thing I remember. I didn't come to til the next day and didn't remember anything that happened. Still don't. My mom was with me cause my husband was stationed out of state. Every time I hear this and it gets to the end I bawl like a baby.
I just saw your reaction video. This video makes me cry because my mom died when I was born... she was resuscitated after being dead for about 1 minute. During that one minute she was watching the Dr’s work frantically to save her life. During this time She was given a choice... to stay and be with God or to go back and raise her 7 children... all under the age of 9. She came back and raised us... always smiling, always grateful, always knowing she made a choice and the choice was made possible by the grace of her (our) Savior... The most loving woman I have ever known... Keep up the great work...
Country music will make you feel. And get you in touch with emotions that other music skims over, and artificially avoids inherently. But what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. In this case emotionally, over time. Note...no one is ever going to look down on you for crying. Because we are doing it with you, on the other side of the screen. And admiring your strength for being on the public side of that screen. Manly tears are a sign of strength. Especially in the country music world. But every man has his own limits to how much he will let the world into his inner world. You have more strength than I do, I think, and I grew up with this music. I just wanted you to know that.
When my aunt delivered her full term baby girl, the umbilical cord burst. They gave her shots of just local anesthetic and started cutting her open trying to save the baby. The baby ended up bleeding out and we almost lost my aunt. She would have been 31 this year. RIP Lacie, you have always been missed.
The simplicity of all music back in the day says volumes. If we could go back in time and apply all that was written, song and believed we would be better off.
Most people don't pay much attention at the end of the video, Jonny's prayer was answered, she lived and near the very end of the video you see her running up with a basket. Yeah, I know, I'm a year late with this comment
This was y favorite song as a child, even though i was growing up around metal and rock from my family and rap and r&b from my neighbors and friends... It sits with me to this day as still the most heart wrenching songs in existence, that WILL grab me each and every time i hear it. Also, I never went thru the cootie phase lol.
Thank you for this. I haven't heard this in a minute and wasn't expecting it. I been binge watching your chanel the last two days, since I found it. My favorite channel out there. I enjoy the conversation and thoughts you share.
This song is very emotional, but you made me laugh when you said "she's got cooties," I was visiting my brother, doing a load of my laundry ... he comes over & throws some of his clothes in with mine. I yelled at him because I now have boy cooties on my clothes. (we were both in our 60's) LOL ! Some things never change between brothers & sisters. 😃
Fr sitting here bawlin my eyes out at 6am😭, I’ve known this song since I was a child and it will always have the same reaction each time I absolutely love this song it means so much to 💕🎵🎶
This is a lot like what i said to god when i found out my adoptive father died. I would have rather taken his place. He was the first father figure to show me what a father was suppose to be.
When he was laughing during the first verse, I was already bawling while thinking "boy, just you wait... just you wait!"
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Doc don't judge the song before you hear the message
Chicago is the home of the blues, New Orleans jazz,down home country soul has no color, but it does have a message. I appreciate your critiques, but sometimes you you judge before the music happens
Would you consider a critique of John Lee Hooker or Minn fats Domino?
Many good things came from the progression of music
This song came out when I was pregnant. My husband was told he had to choose the funeral homes for both me and our daughter. That neither of us would live. We both made it strictly by the grace of God. But this song was hard for him to hear back then. Now our daughter is 24.
Watch the end of the video and read up on the song- She lived as well
Hopefully you’re doing good also
Praise God. Glad your family made it through!
Glad God had you and your little in his arms protecting you.
Knowing this song, I started crying at "Johnny's daddy is taking him fishin'". The whole video, you were so happy and I'm like, "oh you poor, sweet man..."
That's the exact same thing my friend when she showed this song to me, I fucking hate it so much but it's so good
Same.... I ugly cry...EVERY TIME
the part that made me cry was the last line about how hes asking god to take him instead of his wife.
Agreed. 😢
If you look at the father at the first of the video very close it’s not the same man at the end of the the video. The doctor said it was a baby boy. As you listen and look at the end the little boy is not the same boy. There a quick glimpse of a woman coming toward them. In my opinion the boy at the en is Johnny’s son named Johnny after his dad and that glimpse is “that same sweet girl” the got his prayer!
I love how "Don't take the girl" takes on completely different meanings throughout the song.
There are only two lol
@@aaronyeh3652Dad Don't take the girl fishing, Mugger Don't take the girl and harm her, God Don't take the Girl to heaven. That is 3
@@nicholaskumburis5485, and he negotiates using "take" in all three scenarios. Take my friends, take my possessions, take me.
The first time I heard this I was a little girl. Now that I’m 27, it hits a lot harder. I sob every time I hear it
I do too 😭 but, one just can't help it.
Me to. Love the song but it gets me every time!
I'm 49 and it tears my heart out every time. Tears just roll!
the third verse always makes me cry.
Same, especially now that I have a wife and 2 babies.
watching people react to this song is like being with someone when then watch Lion King for the first time you know whats coming but don't say anything
Yes! Man this song always gets me..so good
Couldn't have said it better....same thing with Brad Paisley/Allison Krause Wisky Lullaby!!
@@bigpaulie7887 Yep, and Rich reacts similarly to that one too...
Yeah. I'm telling Rich as that third verse starts, "oh dude you missed the BRIDGE OUT sign"...
And then end up crying with them lol
@8:00 That moment happen to my wife. Having never heard this song before I said similar words as I hit the floor on my knees. My wife hemorrhaged after giving birth do our first son. She was complaining saying that she peed herself in the bed, and wanted to clean herself up. It was when I went to remove the sheet did I see the pool of blood that laid in the hospital bed. It rolled of the bed into the floor like a stream. I quickly ran for the nurse, and they made me talk with other nurses in the hallway while they frantically worked on my wife in the room.
Thankfully my story has a happy ending like the song. They were able to stop the bleeding, and we were able to discharge about three days later while bringing home a healthy baby boy.
Same story here...mean nurse didn't believe me that my arm was "wet" until the pool of blood got out far enough from under the bed...
God bless you!
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your story with us and I’m so very happy that it had such a beautiful ending!
Thank God you were there at that time otherwise it may have been too late..
I’m so happy for you. My Mum was born very prematurely in 1938, and my Nan was haemorrhaging badly. The doctor just shook his head, and told Pop to go home. Pop rode his bicycle home and was sitting on the back step just looking towards the heavens when suddenly one of the stars started getting bigger and bigger and brighter and brighter. Pop got back on his bicycle and raced back to the hospital where the doctor greeted him, and said I don’t know how, but they have both somehow pulled through, and they are going to be alright. Sadly Nan and Pop lost their second baby under the same circumstances, but eight years after Mum was born they had a little boy. People take childbirth for granted, but things can still go wrong.
Sad watching someone's reaction for the first. You were laughing, celebrating life, and then you went dead pan silent. Its tough bro... country music just pulls those strings.
It really does 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
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I went through the exact same situation when our first son was born. I had that same conversation with God. Fortunately my wife and son both pulled through. This song brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.
My dude rewinded when he heard the mom was fading fast and did a double take. Pure emotion man. Good shit
At least it's a happy ending
Kbrand 86 is it? cause i always thought it left off on an unknown
@@actionjackson4150 yes, watch the end of the video, plus even Tim says she survived
I always laugh at how many men don’t realize how big childbirth is. They think it’s easy because it’s natural.
@@katm6086 watch the end of the music video, the baby they named Johnny and the mom's carrying the picnic basket
I still cry when I hear this song just like when I heard it 20 years or so ago
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Awkward Dawn Gets me every time.
Don't sweat it dawn, just means you have a heart.
Same.
I think I cry more now that I'm married with a kid, especially since I met my husband when we were kids.
This song hits me real hard... my mom passed away when I was born. I was 2 months early and almost died twice, the doctors brought me back. My left lung collapsed. My dad, a 6 foot 2 soldier during Vietnam, hit his knees and prayed the same. That was almost 50 years ago.
Omg.. thank God you survived. She lives on in you.
God bless ur heart
How every man should feel about the mother of his children...
Sean Bryant, yes, most definitely !! I love how you think.
BIG FACTS bro
@Tekboy 808 back then men got by with beating their wives.
If they deserve to be felt for that way lol.
Yes sir!!!
I wish young people these days made good music like this - songs that have MEANING and TALENT
I suggest Tyler Childer’s “Follow You to Virgie” if you want a similar feeling song from a modern artist
I would suggest to you this song I wrote called Can’t: czcams.com/video/2rsu-8dElrM/video.html
I’ve heard this song a million times or more. I know every single word and it’s still makes me cry like a baby every single time 😭
Every time. The line "his mamas fading fast" pulls the tears from me
When he had that ear to ear grin at the beginning of the 3rd verse & paused it RIGHT before the plot twist, he's like yeah this is awesome and I'm like👀...dude...no...too soon...
Same
This song catches everyone off guard
Exactly
I love that moment in the second verse, about the stranger pulling a gun, when they actually realize what kind of song this is, followed by the immediate heart wrench of the third verse. I feel like people dont give Country...at least from 2010 and back, enough credit for the feelings it can provoke with simple words.
Yup me too scribblecat
ScribbleCat96 I agree with everything you said!
Yes it does! Did you see his face change at exactly 4:15😂😞
You need to watch the end really hard. His wife is there with him and his son. It has a happy ending.
Yes. She survived.
That Was The Lord All Together
@@cmarz2733 uh...no. she died and he was left alone to raise the baby. He begged God to save her.... but apparently God wasn't listening!!!
God has 3 answers and knows what he's doing. 1.Yes 2.No 3.Not now. YES, she dies...but it's not without reason. HIS WILL BE DONE. Not for our understanding. Really sucks for us, sometimes
@@markfoor4137 ummmm no lol she survived.... Tim said so.
That is why we appreciate the now. When my Mom passed, my Dad kept crying, " My Baby Girl is all alone, she needs me." I knew then I was never the baby girl. My Mom was, as I held my Dad back from jumping into the grave with her. That was tough. He made me promise no resuscitation if anything happened to him. 4 months later the hospital nurse called. He'd had a stroke. I spoke with him one last time. Kept my promise as hard as it was to do. Another call came that night. To say he passed too. That he probably did not feel anything. I felt the loss of him and of my Mom all over again. Difficult being an only child and most aunts and uncles already gone just before them. So this song always gets me. I 😢
I am so, so very sorry for your losses. Keep in thought that Mom & Dad are reunited and holding one another tight. They patiently await to be fully reunited after your gift & story of your life unfolds and last curtain calls... To walk through those beautiful gates and sights only meant for our paradise lost but now found. I'm sorry I get to deep in comments but thinking of seeing my own mother & brother again gives me goosebumps & chills knowing that death is not the end but aknew beginning of flowing energy that simply changes but never destroyed. I am going to see my aunt's, uncle's, cousins, brother and my dear mother one day🥺🙏🏻!! My father took losing mom really bad he could not talk to anyone for months. My brother accidentally shot himself then 1 yr later my mother just let go of this world, mom's sister died 2mos after mom.. these souls were taken back home in only 4 1/2 years most my family were gone. It's me and dad now.... Worst thing was with mom the doctor said she would be fine so I left hospital to go eat, shower and change cloths so on way back not even six hours later doctor calls and says please hurry to hospital because mom's organs were completely shutting down.. my God why?... I held mama's hand as she writhed and shook in pain, the doctor took me over to the hallway with my wife and said something that will stay with me forever.. " We can save her.. but she will be in horrible pain & agony, we can pro-long her life and at best 6 months. Do you want to us to pro-long her life or give her a big dose of morphine & other drugs to completely stop her pain and gently pass? ' I had to choose because dad was too messed up to make any decisions... I chose for her pain to end... And after I looked at my wife and said my God what have I done..... 😞?... But the promise God keeps is what helps me hold on, try to live life to the fullest and pray that I take up God's offer so we can have a big reunification one day!!!!!! 🙏🏻
I am so, so very sorry for your losses. Keep in thought that Mom & Dad are reunited and holding one another tight. They patiently await to be fully reunited after your gift & story of your life unfolds and last curtain calls... To walk through those beautiful gates and sights only meant for our paradise lost but now found. I'm sorry I get to deep in comments but thinking of seeing my own mother & brother again gives me goosebumps & chills knowing that death is not the end but aknew beginning of flowing energy that simply changes but never destroyed. I am going to see my aunt's, uncle's, cousins, brother
Never listen to this song when your pregnant. When I was about 8 months pregnant it came on the radio while I was driving. I had to pull over and cry.
I still would have to pull over.
Currently 15 weeks...
Country music is amazing: it tells some of the most tragically beautiful stories, doesn't it?
She lives folks. You see him and his child in the end as he helps the child across the small stream and then his wife running to catch up with the picnic basket. Per Wikipedia:
The song tells the story of two young lovers dealing with difficult scenarios at three different stages in their lives. In each situation, the man does all he can to make sure that different people "don't take the girl."
In the first verse, the young man (Johnny) is eight years old, about to go on a fishing trip with his father. A young, unnamed girl, apparently Johnny's age, is also present, with a fishing pole in her hand. Johnny doesn't want the girl to come fishing with them. So he begs his father to "take any boy in the world / Daddy, please, don't take the girl".
The song's second verse finds Johnny and the girl ten years later, now as teenagers. The two have since fallen in love and are now dating. As Johnny and his girlfriend are on a date at the "picture show" (i.e., the movie theater), they encounter a stranger with a gun. The man grabs the girl's arm and tells Johnny to give in to his demands. Johnny surrenders his money, wallet, credit cards, a watch that his grandfather gave him, and even his car keys so that the girl would be safe (in the music video, the crook's seen running away with only the wallet).
Verse three takes place five years after the second verse. At this point, Johnny and the girl are now (presumably) married and expecting their first child, and the girl is eventually rushed to the hospital to have her baby delivered. The baby, a boy, is safely delivered, but the doctor informs Johnny that his wife is "fading fast" (presumably dying from childbirth complications). Johnny then collapses to his knees and prays to God that his wife survives, even asking that his own life be taken instead of his wife's, as long as she's okay. The music video shows that Johnny's wife does indeed survive as she is seen in the last scene running to meet Johnny and his little boy with a picnic basket.
The song ends with a repeat of the song's opening line: "Johnny's daddy was taking him fishin' when he was eight years old".
I'm glad to hear that she is still alive, she is a warrior. #ThankTheLord
Yay, I can't believe you got that, everybody thinks she's gone. Guess they're not paying attention... lol
Hwndelite Luckyilivehawaii if you hadn’t seen the video and only heard the song you wouldn’t know. I didn’t see the video till last year and I’ve been listening to the song since I was little
In all the times I've watched the video I've never noticed. Honestly, I was probably too busy wiping my eyes lol
ispumpkinking Opinions vary... however, just watch the video and you will see her at the end. As per Wikipedia....
The music video shows that Johnny's wife does indeed survive as she is seen in the last scene running to meet Johnny and his little boy with a picnic basket.
The song ends with a repeat of the song's opening line: "Johnny's daddy was taking him fishin' when he was eight years old".
My daughter was killed by a drunk driver when she was 10 .. I heard this song a few days later and when he said Don't take the girl I lost it
Oh my Lord, my heart goes out to you. Will be saying a prayer for you. Blessings to you 💖
Jo Youngblood
I'm sorry for your loss
I'm so sorry 😭😭😭😭
Oh hunny I’m so sorry for your loss I couldn’t imagine the pain of losing my little man. You’re one strong lady she’s up there smiling down at you xxx
I'm am so very sorry
One of the most beautiful songs ever in country music. Us country folks do emotional investment on another level. A good country singer will pull u in, get u fully invested, only to hit u in every emotion u have. This song perfected that.
First whiskey lullaby then this. We cryin' tonight.
I just love watching crying reactions to songs i cried to 😂
He went from hating her to loving her to losing her. Didn’t see that coming did ya. And who the hell is cutting onions?
It never says he lost her? It's left open for interpretation. I prefer to think she pulled through because of Johnny's love. And now he has two girls he'd die for.
I mean look at the video. That's them at the end so. Lol
@@therevoltsband That was her wasn't?
He didnt lose her. Thats her running with the kid at the end. And nownhes taking his kid fishing
ramonyzquierdo The last scene is of the dad and the son fishing, I didn’t see a girl. Either way it doesn’t matter, I will always hear it. And if you listen to the song on the radio how could you think she lived. No way possible.
I can see ya fighting the tears, hoss. You've got a soul. Much love from Arizona.
Az here too
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I heard this song when my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer and I sat in my truck weeping outside of a store listening to it.
How is your wife doing now? I pray she is well!!
This song gets me everytime, Tim McGraw was one of my wifes favorite country artists. The day the doctor told me she wouldnt make it through the night, I dropped to my knees just like that. Begging god to take me and not her. I must have played this song 100 times that morning after she passed.
Great reaction of this song.
So so sorry to hear this.
God man your comment made me teary
If this song wasn't sad enough and I had just resisted my tears I had to read your message and lost it again.
I’m so sorry for your loss and I hope that you continue to heal. Music is the best medicine.
When I was giving birth to our son, I had to have an emergency c-section because our son was in severe distress and they had to literally run me on the gurney from the delivery room to an OR with a Dr. and a nurse riding on it prepping me as we were moving. We got to the OR and they didn’t even put drapes up they just started cutting so I watched my own c-section, and my then husband (we’re divorced now but on good terms) walked in as they were opening me up, all he could say to me at that moment was “I saw your organs” to which I, obviously in shock, responded “which ones,” we both were in emergency medicine at one point. As soon as they got our son out he was immediately fine and my ex had enough time to hold him for a minute and put him next to me so I could give him a kiss before I started bleeding out. So the doctors had to grab our son from him and get him out while they fought to keep me from dying. Thankfully after 4 units of blood, that they didn’t even have the time to warm up because everything happened so fast, and some amazing naval surgeons at Balboa hospital being rock stars they got me stabilized. My ex that was a corpsman(medic) said that was the single scariest situation of his life, it was for me until I knew our sone was in the clear then I only remember bits and pieces. FYI when you’re actively dying your brain releases a ton of chemicals that can make some people extremely calm, shock is a hell of a thing.
I cry every time. At the end when he repeats "Johnny's daddy's taking him fishing when he was 8 years old." I feel like that Johnny is the baby.
That Jonny is the baby😄
Obviously lol
It is
The beloved mother spirit was with them
Johnny jr.
I remember the first time I watched this video. I was active duty. A bunch of friends and I were playing a board game and had CMT on the television as background.
When it finished, six grown men crying just as the pizza delivery girl showed up in the day room.
That sounds like a marvelous country lyric itself...and back in the day (the songwriters in Nashville all knowing each other) there was actually something of a tradition of songs having sequels...so this new lyric could, in a classic mode, reference "Don't Take The Girl"...And your pizza delivery person WOULD have to be a girl! Great anecdote.
how long did it take for you to confess to other friends how you reacted? just teasing you. I think anyone with heart and soul would cry too.
💜 love this!
Thank you for your service
You want another tear jerker for vets. Listen to Sailor jerri hallelujah. She rewrote it for vets
"Mr. Tim McGraw, you're next up on the surgeon's table." Son, you're in for one hell of a ride.
It upsets me because every person that I have seen react to this did not look at the very end of the video. You see a little boy and his daddy. But what you do not SEE is momma running toward them. You all forget that God can and will answer prayers. And He Did. Look at that video again. ;-) My God is an AWESOME GOD!!!
There is no mother in the end because the mother died
Amen!
@cezzeboi2841 at 9:54 you see the mom running towards them with a picnic basket
My daddy always said that this song reminded him of my mom. We ended up dancing to it as the memorial song for her at my wedding. ❤
REAL Country music always ends ends with someone: crying, dying or riding away.
not always. sometimes it is drinking, riding a train, or about a dog. lol. I do think country then had more feeling to it.
@@johoney5458 if you listen closely, they are crying because someone, or the dog, died or left! I grew up on real country music and every song I learned had one, or more, of those elements. Listen to why they are "crying" in their beer!
And I miss it so much!
"Remember When"
If you watch the ending, his wife makes it through and is with him and little Johnny fishing
When I saw the title I thought "Oh boy...He doesn't know what he's in for." xD
Also, you’re allowed to drop tears bud, we are here for a reaction
Watching your face all happy and then when you hear the sad parts. I cry every time I hear this song.
A dear friend of mine wrote this song. Craig J Martin, he just passed away. A musical genius! Tim McGraw did an amazing job! One of the best songs I've ever heard live and I've been to many!!!
One of my all time favorite country songs. It catches everyone off guard the first time and i still get goosebumps everytime i hear it. That being said, most people (including myself) dont realize that Tim is NOT just repeating the opening lines at the end of the song. It's actually Johnny and his girl (she survived) taking the new little Johnny fishing. You can even see the girl/mom run up to them at the end.
The saddest song I’ve ever heard is “whiskey lullaby “
Chief you ain't wrong, literally fuels depression.
Y33T M3 , Yep. It should come with a warning label. Warning: “Will kill any happy thoughts you may be having.” And yet, it’s an amazing song.
Personally have to be concrete angel
One of my absolute favorite country songs is Whiskey Lullaby
That song hits so much harder when you've been through it...
And a true story for ya:
My gf at the time (who is now my wife) had a situation where only immediate family could be in the room. The doctor and nurse told me i had to leave. I looked at them with a tear in my eye and i didnt have to say a word. They knew. They knew i wasnt going anywhere and it was going to take more than a nurse and a doctor to make me leave that room.
Wow!!!! Not many guys can show their emotions publicly like this. You're not superficial. Good to see such realness from a man!
She's the girl next door. They are both 8 in the beginning of the song. Johnny was in the delivery room with his wife.
This is my oldest son John’s favorite song. This also happened to me and my husband when I had my last child. Luckily I’m still here.❤️
The Travis Tritt trilogy "Anymore", "Tell Me I Was Dreaming" and "If I Lost You". Those videos are the most tear jerking things I've ever seen. You would probably cry
Yeah those three together will bring a man down in a hurry.
That ones a killer
Was scrolling through the comments section to make sure someone recommended this. Great job James!!!
Tell me I was dreaming is heartbreaking
"It started off as a wonderful song." It ENDED as a wonderful song, too. Life happens...Good, bad, or indifferent...life happens. The magic of music makes you feel the story, not just hear it.
That my friend is the best thing anybody has ever put in words about music. Cause if u can't feel it, its not worth listening to. So thank you for your true answer.
Every time I hear this song my eyes fill up with tears
This is 2021..this song still bring me to tears. Man you breaking down makes me wish men still feels this way towards a woman. Tim McGraw you did this one💯
While you’re on country you should react to “The Dance” by Garth brooks.
Beautiful song. In the same vein is Diamond Rio's "You're Gone"...
The 9/11 version
That video is hard to find... the Video is awesome
The wife lives... Almost everyone misses that part❤ at the end
Or the beaches of Cheyenne
Crazy he was all smiles til the hospital.. Tim the best at signing a story
As a grown man, 2 songs that kill me are this one and the Christmas shoes, waterworks every time
Same here...If Christmas shoes or this song comes on when I'm driving I have to pull over so I don't crash because I can't see the road through the tears.
Stay Blessed 🙏
I just flat out refuse to listen to the Christmas Shoes after the first time I heard it.
Me to every time lol
‘Alyssa Lies’ by Jason Michael Carroll is another one that’ll bring you to tears
You had the same reaction everyone else in the world has, when they 1st hear this song. It's the second time you hear it, that kills ya, lol. Loved that you narrated your opinion throughout 😊
This song was playing in waiting room as I was having my first son I almost passed away and my first born did I still have trouble listening to this song
I would HAPPILY take my wife's place....with joy in my heart.
me too bro
That is beautiful,a true man
As a Navy pediatric corpsman there were times when Mom died giving birth, or, the baby was stllborn, or died shortly after birth, and, one of the most heartrending parts was telling Dad, I Still get emotional just remembering these events!
Michael Ashcraft 🤗
'"There's Holes In The Floor Of Heaven"
That song destroys me every time.
This is why Country Music has been my favorite for my entire life....as sad as it is, it's reality and these songs help us heal.
Tim is very down to earth. My brother played baseball with him as kids. My Son went to the feed store one day and Tim came in. They talked about horses. Needless to say we were happy for his stardom. He hasn't forgot where he came from.
This song makes me cry every time.
I grew up on this kind of country music, makes me sick to hear how washed out the newer stuff is. Great song.
Joe Stroud same. So different now.
Me too
And those before this era thought the same of these folks. And so. On. I mean the man in black was a freaking rebel.
It’s just not real country anymore.. with the exception of a few artists.
As a pregnant woman with her second baby on the way, this hits deep. I almost lost my life during my first delivery from losing too much blood because of a doctor error. This second pregnancy was unexpected and yes it is scary, but my children's lives are worth more than my own.
Love and prayers from Arizona. I wish you and your children health and happiness.
I went through 18 hours of labor, and ended up in an emergency c-section. The epidural only worked on half my body, and I felt WAY WAY more than I wanted to. My second one was scheduled, and was so much better! I hope that you have an uneventful, and easy birth though! How much longer to go?
You go girl👍🇺🇸
Many prayers and safe delivery.
Me and my wife are going through our first pregnancy now. She is 8 weeks and we have heard its heartbeat and it is the most beautiful sound in the world. Even though everything is technically fine and perfect right now it is one of the scariest things I've ever experienced lol
Welcome to country music... it’s a bi polar roller coaster with this song!!! Do more country music reactions it’s real life touch your heart, pull on your heart strings, hell yeah, party fun or any of those or all of the emotions.
I cry every time I hear this song! 😭😭😭
I love me some new country!
Funny how some songs can touch your soul you could hear the same song 100 times and one time to hear it it makes you cry
Tim’s song makes me cry bc most parents have been in that situation, mostly with our kids being born & almost not making it, yes it pulls at your heart strings 🙁
I can't listen to "Butterfly Kisses" because it came out about the time my girlfriend miscarried. I was 21, so 23 years ago. Haven't thought about it in a long time. Hard to believe, he or she would be an adult now, possibly with kids of their own.
When you know what's coming,
and all you can say is
"don't take the girl"
She lived!!! That was her running with the picnic basket!! I've never seen the video before...wow...good to know!
Me too
Music comes from feelings and life stories. So great...love Tim McGraw...
I use to drive 7 hundred miles to see my wife of now 25 years and new born daughter. Every Fri and Sunday. Just to see them. When I crossed the Tennessee border that song and the song escape Rupert Holmes always played. My wife laughs at me getting emotional 😭 when these songs come on. Will drive through all storms to be close to them.
PLEASE react to “If you’re reading this” by Tim McGraw. It’s much later than this song, and it’s very emotional, but everyone should here it once! Also I love your rock reactions. You should try Layla by Eric Clapton, “Life in the fast lane” by Eagles, “Hotel California” by Eagles, and Wasted Time by Eagles (one of the prettiest songs ever recorded) I’m only 31 so I can vouch that they stand the rest of time! Love your channel!!!
I'm just a few years older than you & I love those songs too. I've been listening to them since I was a teenager.
Tim and Blanco just did this together. It is great.
I loved that one.
It is B You T Full
I coded having a 10lb boy in 2010. I don't know how (had a DNR), but I came back. I heard him cry and that is the last thing I remember. I didn't come to til the next day and didn't remember anything that happened. Still don't. My mom was with me cause my husband was stationed out of state. Every time I hear this and it gets to the end I bawl like a baby.
I just saw your reaction video. This video makes me cry because my mom died when I was born... she was resuscitated after being dead for about 1 minute. During that one minute she was watching the Dr’s work frantically to save her life. During this time She was given a choice... to stay and be with God or to go back and raise her 7 children... all under the age of 9. She came back and raised us... always smiling, always grateful, always knowing she made a choice and the choice was made possible by the grace of her (our) Savior... The most loving woman I have ever known...
Keep up the great work...
Country music will make you feel. And get you in touch with emotions that other music skims over, and artificially avoids inherently.
But what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. In this case emotionally, over time.
Note...no one is ever going to look down on you for crying. Because we are doing it with you, on the other side of the screen. And admiring your strength for being on the public side of that screen.
Manly tears are a sign of strength. Especially in the country music world. But every man has his own limits to how much he will let the world into his inner world. You have more strength than I do, I think, and I grew up with this music. I just wanted you to know that.
When my aunt delivered her full term baby girl, the umbilical cord burst. They gave her shots of just local anesthetic and started cutting her open trying to save the baby. The baby ended up bleeding out and we almost lost my aunt. She would have been 31 this year. RIP Lacie, you have always been missed.
Love and prayers from Arizona.
if you want a sad country song react to “the little girl” by John Michael Montgomery
I've been trying to get one of these youtubers to react to that somg for the past 2 months!! Lol
Hell, sissy song is pretty bad too, we used that song at my moms funeral so maybe why that's why I cant hear that song.
Omg stop 😢😢😢
@@dirtracer21d 100% agree
If you've ever had a child, There Goes My Life is a killer also.
This song never made me cry till I watched your reaction
The simplicity of all music back in the day says volumes. If we could go back in time and apply all that was written, song and believed we would be better off.
Its basically a circle of life song...
And one hell of a tear-jerker too
Most people don't pay much attention at the end of the video, Jonny's prayer was answered, she lived and near the very end of the video you see her running up with a basket. Yeah, I know, I'm a year late with this comment
Bruh who’s cutting onions right now
Wish that would stop
Best remark like that I ever saw was "...damn onion-chopping ninjas"...
She lived. The last screen was in color while the first was black and white.
I’ve heard the song more times than I can count and I bawl every time.
This was y favorite song as a child, even though i was growing up around metal and rock from my family and rap and r&b from my neighbors and friends...
It sits with me to this day as still the most heart wrenching songs in existence, that WILL grab me each and every time i hear it.
Also, I never went thru the cootie phase lol.
Thank you for this. I haven't heard this in a minute and wasn't expecting it.
I been binge watching your chanel the last two days, since I found it. My favorite channel out there. I enjoy the conversation and thoughts you share.
As I sit here bawling my eyes out...these songs are why I really can’t do country lol...you are absolutely gorgeous by the way
This song is very emotional, but you made me laugh when you said "she's got cooties," I was visiting my brother, doing a load of my laundry ... he comes over & throws some of his clothes in with mine. I yelled at him because I now have boy cooties on my clothes. (we were both in our 60's) LOL ! Some things never change between brothers & sisters. 😃
Your smile is contagious and you have the best personality. Thank you for making me smile today.
Fr sitting here bawlin my eyes out at 6am😭, I’ve known this song since I was a child and it will always have the same reaction each time I absolutely love this song it means so much to 💕🎵🎶
Ooooh...you're not gonna be laughing for long. This song makes me bawl 😭
If you look closely at the end of the video you see "the girl" is fine.
This is the song that stArted me listening to country music
I’m 38 years old and have heard this songs quite a few times and listening to this now and have tears streaming
So this was one of my favorite songs growing up and still every time I cry
This is a lot like what i said to god when i found out my adoptive father died. I would have rather taken his place. He was the first father figure to show me what a father was suppose to be.
Actually, mortality rates for mothers in this country are alarmingly high.
If you don't shed a tear on this one i'm assuming you don't have a heart.
Now this is a REAL reaction video...he is talkin about the story I love this
Classic song right there in country. Makes me cry every time. I remember hearing it when I was 3 years old riding in the car with my dad.