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Paint Me a Birmingham

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Content
Music video
Chart positions
Ken Mellons Tracy Lawrence Year-end charts
Parodies
References
External links

{{Infobox song
| name = Paint Me a Birmingham
| cover = Paint Me a Birmingham.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Tracy Lawrence
| album = Strong
| released = October 13, 2003
| format = CD single
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Country
| length = 3:47
| label = DreamWorks Nashville 14205
| writer = Buck Moore
Gary Duffy
| producer = James Stroud
| prev_title = What a Memory
| prev_year = 2002
| next_title = It's All How You Look at It
| next_year = 2004
}}"Paint Me a Birmingham" is a song written by Buck Moore and Gary Duffy. It was concurrently released by American country music artists Ken Mellons and Tracy Lawrence, whose versions entered the country charts within one week of each other. Lawrence's was the more successful of the two, reaching #4 in May 2004 and becoming his first Top 5 country hit since "Lessons Learned" in April 2000.^[1]

Content

The narrator describes an encounter on the beach with an artist who is painting ocean scenes. The singer then asks the painter to paint a picture of the plans the man and his lost lover had actually made. The song is in the key of G-flat major, modulating up to A-flat major at the last chorus, with a vocal range from A{{flat}}3 to D{{flat}}5.^[2]

Music video

The music video was filmed live in concert.

Chart positions

Ken Mellons

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Chart (2003)	Peak position

Tracy Lawrence

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Chart (2003-2004)	Peak position

Year-end charts

Chart (2004)	Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[3]	28

Parodies

On his 2005 album Bipolar and Proud, country music parodist Cledus T. Judd parodied the song as "Bake Me a Country Ham". Judd's parody charted at #58 on the country music charts as well.

References

1. ^{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|isbn=0-89820-177-2}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0089841&|title='Paint Me a Birmingham' sheet music|work=Musicnotes.com|accessdate=17 December 2013}}
3. ^{{Cite web | url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2004/hot-country-songs| title=Best of 2004: Country Songs | work=Billboard | publisher=Prometheus Global Media | date=2004| accessdate=July 11, 2012}}

External links

{{MetroLyrics song|tracy-lawrence|paint-me-a-birmingham}}

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