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Fans have Brad Paisley to thank for Green releasing the song. Green was on tour with Paisley when Paisley found out about the song, encouraging Green to release it as a single.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrad actually did a cover of it on Instagram, which was a really awesome thing for him to do, help out a new artist like me,\u201d Green recalls<\/a>. \u201cBut when you got guys like that \u2026 Brad\u2019s got however many hits, that even remotely likes a song that I wrote is a pretty cool thing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy daddy left for another woman, moved off to L.A.\/ My mama fought hard against that cancer, she died when I was eight<\/em>,\u201d Green sings. \u201cI finished school, my country shipped me off to war \/ When I came home, my whole world didn\u2019t love me anymore \/ It\u2019s hard to see all that driving by \/ So, I just write down \u2018Jesus Saves\u2019 \u2019cause there ain\u2019t no way \/ I can fit that on a sign<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt was me passing the same guy on the same corner in Nashville,\u201d Green tells Holler,<\/em><\/a> sharing the story behind the song. \u201cAnd just thinking he\u2019s got one little piece of cardboard to try to tell people his story, and why they should stop and hear him out and lend a hand.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWell, how in the hell can I watch the big game<\/em>,\u201d Green sings. \u201cWithout me having you here to complain \/ And how am I gonna do anything now \/ Without you here telling me how \/ Guess it could be worse, hell, it\u2019s 75 degrees \/ You picked a damn good day to leave me<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t Mind If I D<\/a>o\u201d is another one that Riley Green wrote by himself, as the title track of his latest album. He sings it with Ella Langley, after their No. 1 hit with \u201cYou Look Like You Love Me\u201d.<\/p>\n The song says in part, \u201cAnd I don\u2019t mind if I do \/ Drink up the nerve to show up at your house \/ If you wanna know the truth \/ It\u2019s killin\u2019 me not holding you right now \/ I\u2019m one memory away from fallin\u2019 all the way apart \/ \u2018Cause I might still love you \/ Hope you don\u2019t mind if I do<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Don\u2019t Mind If I Do\u2019 is one that really surprised me with how big a song it became, just because it was such an easy song to write,\u201d Green tells Grammy.com<\/a><\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s a weird thing to write a duet by yourself and write from a female perspective \u2014 I love the job Ella [Langley] did on it.<\/p>\n Photo by Scott Legato\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A lot of country artists write their own songs, but few do it as well as Riley Green. Beginning with his 2019 freshman Different \u2018Round Here record, on which he wrote all but one of the 14 songs, Green has been proving himself as a talented songwriter. We found four Riley Green songs that prove … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4-Riley-Green-Songs-That-Prove-He-Is-One-of.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6995,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions\/6995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cJesus Saves\u201d<\/h3>\n
\u201cDamn Good Day to Leave\u201d<\/h3>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t Mind If I Do\u201d<\/h3>\n
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