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"When the Grass Grows Over Me"
Single by George Jones
from the album I'll Share My World with You
B-side
"Heartaches and Hangovers"
Released
1968
Recorded
1968
Genre
Country
Length
2:47
Label
Musicor
Songwriter(s)
Don Chapel
Producer(s)
Pappy Daily
George Jones singles chronology
"Milwaukee (Here I Come)" (1968)
"When the Grass Grows Over Me" (1968)
"I'll Share My World with You" (1969)
"When the Grass Grows Over Me" is a song by George Jones. It was released on the Musicor label in 1968 and rose to #2 on the Billboard country singles chart. The song is credited to Don Chapel, Tammy Wynette's husband before George, but Tammy claimed that she actually wrote it. The song is similar in theme to Jones' later comeback hit "He Stopped Loving Her Today" except from a first person point of view, with the narrator claiming he will only stop loving his departed lover when he is dead and buried:
When you left I thought that I would soon be over you
Even told myself that I would find somebody new
Time and tears have come and gone but not your memory
But I'll be over you when the grass grows over me
In 1969, Conway Twitty cut the song for his LP Darlin', You Know I Wouldn't Lie. A year later, Jerry Lee Lewis recorded it for his album She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye. Tammy Wynette would also perform the song live occasionally.
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Discography with Tammy Wynette
Awards
Solo studio albums
Grand Ole Opry's New Star
Country Church Time
White Lightning and Other Favorites
George Jones Salutes Hank Williams
George Jones Sings Country and Western Hits
George Jones Sings from the Heart
George Jones Sings Bob Wills
Homecoming in Heaven
My Favorites of Hank Williams
I Wish Tonight Would Never End
George Jones Sings Like the Dickens!
I Get Lonely in a Hurry
The Race Is On
Mr. Country & Western Music
New Country Hits
Old Brush Arbors
Trouble in Mind
Country Heart
Love Bug
I'm a People
We Found Heaven Right Here on Earth at "4033"
Walk Through This World with Me
George Jones Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier
The George Jones Story
My Country
If My Heart Had Windows
I'll Share My World with You
Where Grass Won't Grow
Will You Visit Me on Sunday
George Jones with Love
George Jones Sings the Great Songs of Leon Payne
George Jones (We Can Make It)
A Picture of Me (Without You)
Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)
In a Gospel Way
The Grand Tour
Memories of Us
The Battle
Alone Again
I Wanta Sing
Bartender's Blues
My Very Special Guests
I Am What I Am
Still the Same Ole Me
Shine On
Jones Country
You've Still Got a Place in My Heart
Ladies' Choice
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes
Wine Colored Roses
Too Wild Too Long
One Woman Man
You Oughta Be Here with Me
And Along Came Jones
Walls Can Fall
High-Tech Redneck
The Bradley Barn Sessions
I Lived to Tell It All
It Don't Get Any Better Than This
Cold Hard Truth
The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001
The Gospel Collection
Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't
Burn Your Playhouse Down – The Unreleased Duets
Collaborative studio albums
What's in Our Heart (with Melba Montgomery)
Close Together (As You and Me) (with Melba Montgomery)
Bluegrass Hootenanny (with Melba Montgomery)
George Jones & Gene Pitney – For the First Time! Two Great Stars
George Jones & Gene Pitney – Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee! (with Gene Pitney)
It's Country Time Again! (with Gene Pitney)
Double Trouble (with Johnny Paycheck)
A Taste of Yesterday's Wine (with Merle Haggard)
Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again (with Merle Haggard)
George Jones & The Smoky Mountain Boys
Compilation albums
Hillbilly Hit Parade
George Jones Singing 14 Top Country Song Favorites
George Jones Sings His Greatest Hits
The Fabulous Country Music Sound of George Jones
Long Live King George
The Crown Prince of Country Music
A King & Two Queens (with Judy Lynn and Melba Montgomery)
Blue & Lonesome
Heartaches & Tears
Famous Country Duets
Hits by George
The Best of George Jones
All-Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Encore
Anniversary – 10 Years of Hits
By Request
Super Hits
Friends in High Places
Super Hits, Volume 2
16 Biggest Hits
50 Years of Hits
God's Country: George Jones and Friends
Live albums
First Time Live
Live at Dancetown U.S.A.
Live with the Possum
Related artists
Merle Haggard
Melba Montgomery
Johnny Paycheck
Gene Pitney
Margie Singleton
Tammy Wynette
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George Jones singles
Albums
Singles
Discography with Tammy Wynette
Awards
1950s
"No Money in This Deal"
"Play It Cool, Man"
"You All Goodnight"
"Why Baby Why"
"What Am I Worth"
"I'm Ragged But I'm Right"
"Rock It"
"You Gotta Be My Baby"
"Just One More"
"Don't Stop the Music"
"Too Much Water"
"Tall, Tall Trees"
"Seasons of My Heart"
"Too Much Water"
"Treasure of Love"
"White Lightning"
"Who Shot Sam"
"Big Harlan Taylor"
1960s
"Accidentally on Purpose"
"Out of Control"
"The Window Up Above"
"Family Bible"
"Tender Years"
"Aching, Breaking Heart"
"She Thinks I Still Care"
"Open Pit Mine"
"A Girl I Used to Know"
"Your Heart Turned Left (And I Was on the Right)"
"I'll Share My World with You
"The Race Is On"
"Love Bug"
"Take Me"
"I'm a People"
"Walk Through This World with Me"
"I Can't Get There from Here"
"If My Heart Had Windows"
"Say It's Not You"
"Small Time Laboring Man"
"As Long as I Live"
"Milwaukee, Here I Come" (with Brenda Carter)
"When the Grass Grows Over Me"
"I'll Share My World with You"
"If Not for You"
"She's Mine"
1970s
"Where Grass Won't Grow"
"Tell Me My Lying Eyes Are Wrong"
"A Good Year for the Roses"
"Sometimes You Just Can't Win"
"Right Won't Touch a Hand"
"I'll Follow You (Up to Our Cloud)"
"We Can Make It"
"Loving You Could Never Be Better"
"A Picture of Me (Without You)"
"What My Woman Can't Do"
"Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)"
"Once You've Had the Best"
"The Grand Tour"
"The Door"
"These Days (I Barely Get By)"
"Memories of Us"
"The Battle"
"You Always Look Your Best (Here in My Arms)"
"Her Name Is"
"Old King Kong"
"If I Could Put Them All Together (I'd Have You)"
"Bartender's Blues"
"I'll Just Take It Out in Love"
"Someday My Day Will Come"
1980s
"He Stopped Loving Her Today"
"I'm Not Ready Yet"
"If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)"
"Still Doin' Time"
"Same Ole Me"
"Shine On (Shine All Your Sweet Love on Me)"
"I Always Get Lucky with You"
"Tennessee Whiskey"
"You've Still Got a Place in My Heart"
"She's My Rock"
"Hallelujah, I Love You So" (with Brenda Lee)
"Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" (with Lacy J. Dalton)
"The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)"
"Somebody Wants Me Out of the Way"
"Wine Colored Roses"
"The Right Left Hand"
"I Turn to You"
"The Bird"
"I'm a Survivor"
"The Old Man No One Loves"
"If I Could Bottle This Up" (with Shelby Lynne)
"I'm a One Woman Man"
"The King Is Gone (So Are You)"
"Writing on the Wall"
"Radio Lover"
1990s
"You Couldn't Get the Picture"
"I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair"
"Honky Tonk Song"
"Choices"
As a collaborative artist
"Yearning" (with Jeanette Hicks)
"Did I Ever Tell You" (with Margie Singleton)
"Waltz of the Angels" (with Margie Singleton)
"We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" (with Melba Montgomery)
"Let's Invite Them Over" (with Melba Montgomery)
"Please Be My Love" (with Melba Montgomery)
"What's in Our Heart" (with Melba Montgomery)
"Things Have Gone to Pieces" (with Gene Pitney)
"I've Got Five Dollars and It's Saturday Night" (with Gene Pitney)
"Blue Moon of Kentucky" (with Melba Montgomery)
"That's All It Took (with Gene Pitney)
"Maybellene" (with Johnny Paycheck)
"You Can Have Her" (with Johnny Paycheck)
"When You're Ugly Like Us (You Just Naturally Got to Be Cool)" (with Johnny Paycheck)
"You Better Move On" (with Johnny Paycheck)
"Yesterday's Wine" (with Merle Haggard)
"C.C. Waterback" (with Merle Haggard)
As a featured artist
"We Didn't See a Thing" (Ray Charles with Chet Atkins and George Jones)
"A Few Ole Country Boys" (Randy Travis featuring George Jones)
"You Don't Seem to Miss Me" (Patty Loveless with George Jones)
"A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K version)" (Chad Brock featuring George Jones and Hank Williams, Jr.)
"Country Boy" (Aaron Lewis featuring Charlie Daniels and George Jones)
Promotional singles
"Wrong Number"
Other charted songs
"Money to Burn"
"Big Fool of the Year"
"I Saw Me"
"What's in Our Heart" (with Melba Montgomery)
"My Tears Are Overdue"
"I Just Don't Give a Damn"
"He Stopped Loving Her Today"
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