JD's My Whiskey (Not My Name) - Dennis Ledbetter

JD's My Whiskey (Not My Name)

Saint and Sinner Records

JD’s My Whisky (Not My Name)"

There’s something undeniably satisfying about a cryin’ in your beer country shuffle that sports twin fiddles and a no-frills lead guitar laying down the heartbreak beat. Dennis Ledbetter’s vocal quality and delivery bring Hank, Jr. to mind on this song about a country picker who has sacrificed too much in his personal life for his music. JD (Jack Daniels) is the singer’s whiskey, not his name, is the conversation starter with the pretty lady three stools down the bar at some old club on Lower Broad in Nashville. If you like your country music to sound like country music, you’ll find that co-writers Ledbetter and Chris Bellamy have hit the nail on the head with this clever original.

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JD’s My Whiskey Not My Name

Verse:

She sat down in the bar room

Just three stools from a fool

She leaned my way and asked me

What’s your name ……..

You don’t want to know me 

My life…. is filled with pain

The waitress calls me JD, but

That’s my whiskey not my name.

Chorus:

JD’s my whiskey not my name.

I went out searching for my wealth and fame

But all I found was heartaches

While I played honky tonk games

Now it’s me and old JD

With no one else to blame

Instrumental – (Same as chorus)

 Verse: 

My mind drifts back to yesterday

Right here on Broadway

When pedal steels and fiddles ruled the day.

What was it I thought I heard… Hank Williams say

Now it’s me and ole JD headed down a lost highway.

Chorus: 

JD’s my whiskey not my name.

I went out searching for my wealth and fame

But all I found was heartaches

While I played honky tonk games

Now it’s me and old JD

To help me ease the pain

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JD’s my whiskey not my name.

Written By: Dennis Ledbetter BMI & Chris Bellamy BMI

Publishing: Saint and Sinner Publishing, BMI