chorus
Don't rock the jukebox
I wanna hear George Jones
'Coz my heart ain't ready
For the Rolling Stones
I don't feel like rocking
Since my baby's gone
So don't rock the jukebox
Play me a country song
I wanna hear George Jones
'Coz my heart ain't ready
For the Rolling Stones
I don't feel like rocking
Since my baby's gone
So don't rock the jukebox
Play me a country song
verse 1
Before you drop that quarter
Keep one thing in mind
You got a heart-broke hillbilly
Standing here in line
I've been down and lonely
Ever since she left
Before you punch that number
Could I make one request
Keep one thing in mind
You got a heart-broke hillbilly
Standing here in line
I've been down and lonely
Ever since she left
Before you punch that number
Could I make one request
chorus
Don't rock the jukebox
I wanna hear George Jones
'Coz my heart ain't ready
For the Rolling Stones
I don't feel like rocking
Since my baby's gone
So don't rock the jukebox
Play me a country song
I wanna hear George Jones
'Coz my heart ain't ready
For the Rolling Stones
I don't feel like rocking
Since my baby's gone
So don't rock the jukebox
Play me a country song
verse 2
I ain't got nothing
Against rock and roll
But when your heart's been broken
You need a song that's slow
Ain't nothing like a steel guitar
To drown a memory
Before you spend your money baby
Play a song for me
Against rock and roll
But when your heart's been broken
You need a song that's slow
Ain't nothing like a steel guitar
To drown a memory
Before you spend your money baby
Play a song for me
chorus
Don't rock the jukebox
I wanna hear George Jones
'Coz my heart ain't ready
For the Rolling Stones
I don't feel like rocking
Since my baby's gone
So don't rock the jukebox
Play me a country song
I wanna hear George Jones
'Coz my heart ain't ready
For the Rolling Stones
I don't feel like rocking
Since my baby's gone
So don't rock the jukebox
Play me a country song
outro
Yeah, don't rock the jukebox
Play me a country song
Play me a country song
song info:
Verified yes
LanguageEnglish
GenreCountry
Rank−
Duration00:02:52
Charts
Copyright ©Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music
WriterRoger Murrah, Keith Stegall, Alan Jackson
Lyrics licensed byLyricFind
Added
Last updatedFebruary 6th, 2024
About"Don't Rock the Jukebox" is a song by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released on April 29, 1991 as the lead single from the album of the same name. It was his second consecutive Number One single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts. Jackson wrote the song with Roger Murrah and Keith Stegall.
The song also received an ASCAP award for Country Song of the Year in 1992. That same year, the song was covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks, featuring commentary by Alan Jackson himself, for their 1992 album Chipmunks in Low Places.
The song is sung from the perspective of a heartbroken bar patron who wishes to hear country music to ease his heartbreak. As such, he tells the other patrons in the bar, "don't rock the jukebox" (i.e. play country instead of rock).
Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A grade," saying that the song "defies explanation" because Jackson "perfectly inhabits the song's affable weariness, and because Scott Hendricks and Keith Stegall arrange it to honky-tonk heaven."
Alan wrote about the inspiration for the song in the liner notes from The Greatest Hits Collection:
I wanna tell you a little story about an incident that happened on the road a couple years ago when me and my band, The Strayhorns, were playing this little truck stop lounge up in Doswell,_Virginia – a place called Geraldine's. We'd been there for four or five nights, you know, playing those dance sets. It'd been a long night, I took a break and walked over to the Jukebox. Roger, my bass player, was already over there reading the records, you know. I leaned up on the corner of it and one of the legs was broken off, jukebox sort of wobbling around, you know. And Roger looked up at me and said,"
The song also received an ASCAP award for Country Song of the Year in 1992. That same year, the song was covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks, featuring commentary by Alan Jackson himself, for their 1992 album Chipmunks in Low Places.
The song is sung from the perspective of a heartbroken bar patron who wishes to hear country music to ease his heartbreak. As such, he tells the other patrons in the bar, "don't rock the jukebox" (i.e. play country instead of rock).
Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song an A grade," saying that the song "defies explanation" because Jackson "perfectly inhabits the song's affable weariness, and because Scott Hendricks and Keith Stegall arrange it to honky-tonk heaven."
Alan wrote about the inspiration for the song in the liner notes from The Greatest Hits Collection:
I wanna tell you a little story about an incident that happened on the road a couple years ago when me and my band, The Strayhorns, were playing this little truck stop lounge up in Doswell,_Virginia – a place called Geraldine's. We'd been there for four or five nights, you know, playing those dance sets. It'd been a long night, I took a break and walked over to the Jukebox. Roger, my bass player, was already over there reading the records, you know. I leaned up on the corner of it and one of the legs was broken off, jukebox sort of wobbling around, you know. And Roger looked up at me and said,"