Toby Keith – Beer For My Horses ft. Willie Nelson

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“Beer for My Horses” – Single by Toby Keith featuring Willie Nelson from the album Unleashed, released April 7, 2003.

“When I was a kid I worked for a rodeo company,” says Toby on his website. “The old timers who worked the stock and stuff in the back would carry a pint of whiskey in their pocket – they were just old cowboys. They would pull it out and say, ‘Here’s to me, here’s to you, we got screwed, so screw you, here’s to me.’ They always had some little toast. One was to hold up the bottle for a drink and say, ‘Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.’ I kept that in my head a long time thinking I’d write it some day. We did finally, trying to say that maybe it’s time that justice gets back into the judicial system. The big posse goes out and catches the bad guys and everybody comes back to lick their wounds, remember the ones they lost and celebrate with the ones that made it back. You raise your glass and say, ‘Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses, bartender.’ One of those conceptual deals. Soon as we got done writing it I thought man, it’d be cool if we could talk Willie Nelson into singing the Texas verse on that. Obviously he went for it and I think it’s the biggest multi-week #1 either of us ever had.

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Toby Keith - Beer For My Horses ft. Willie Nelson
Toby Keith and Willie Nelson

The music video for the song features Toby Keith, Willie Nelson, and Corin Nemec, as detectives hunting a serial killer, played by Gregg Gilmore. The detectives eventually convince Nemec to dress up as a woman to lure the serial killer and they end up capturing him. The video, directed by Michael Salomon, was shot in downtown Los Angeles and at the nearby Golden Oak Ranch, in Newhall, California. It is also the first video in which Keith does not actually sing. On March 4, 2004, the video was nominated for Video of the Year for the Academy of Country Music Awards.

“Beer for My Horses” also made Willie Nelson the oldest artist to top the country charts at age 70.

The phrase, “Whisky for me beer for my horse” is said in the 1975 film, Bite the Bullet, by Jan-Michael Vincent.

Charted No.1 – US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) (2003)
Charted No.22 – US Billboard Hot 100 (2003)

Toby Keith - Beer For My Horses ft. Willie Nelson
Toby Keith - Beer For My Horses ft. Willie Nelson

Beer For My Horses este o melodie înregistrată de Toby Keith împreună cu Willie Nelson, pentru albumul Unleashed a lui Toby Keith, din 2002. Piesa a fost cel de-al patrulea single de pe album, lansată la 7 Aprilie 2003.

În videoclip joacă Toby Keith, Willie Nelson, și Corin Nemec, detectivi care sânt în urmariarea unui criminal, rol jucat de Gregg Gilmore. Este primul video în care Toby Keith nu cânta.

Filmul din 2008, “Beer for my horses”, este bazat pe această melodie. Keith și Nelson joacă în film.

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