Bill Anderson: Don't She Look Good

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Bill Anderson is a CMA Hall of Fame Artist as well as one of my fellow Hall of Fame songwriters.

Bill is known among his peers as the man with the golden pen, so to say the least, I was somewhat surprised when he came to my office in search of a song.

I jokingly asked him what happened to his golden pen. He told me he'd been busy on the road performing and that he hadn't had time to do much writing.

I played him this song and he liked it, and recorded it. He later brought a copy of his recording by my office and asked me to listen to it and tell him if it needed anything.

After listening I told him all it needed was to be released. He released it and 12 weeks later it was the Number One song in the Nation ...

- Jerry

She was on her way out of your life when I found her

Not knowing which way to turn

She'd forgotten the feeling of two arms around her

But it didn't take her long to learn

You had new worlds to conquer, so you didn't want her

Or anything cramping your style

But don't she look great in the new dress I bought her

And don't she look good when she smiles

Did you really think you were so all important

She couldn't get by on her own

Did you really think loosing you would destroy her

And that's why she kept hanging on

She stuck to her promise, and talked to her conscience

And did all she could for a while

Then she picked up the pieces and she's started livin'

Now don't she look good when she smiles

Chorus:

Don't she look good in the new dress I bought her

And the new way that she wears her hair

She's in a new world and she's not the same girl

She knows now that somebody cares

You can't believe that the same girl you let go

Could change so in this little while

But don't she look great in the new dress I bought her

And don't she look good when she smiles

Tag: Oh Don't she look great in the new dress I bought her

And don't she look good when she smiles

 Words and Music by Jerry Chesnut