Jones, George - The Race Is On Lyrics

Oh, how I loved this song! My future husband played this for my Mom on her guitar! I fell in love right then!

Great old days

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I grew up on the Sawyer Brown Version, but god do I love this one

original is the best in this case....

George is God.

Nice Crew Cut GJ......

Love that Blair (jalopy) impalla

Hi how yall doing, it's me wells!!! Jack's Christmas gift; lol, lmfao 22

Jim Carey u sob 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

I still wear a flat top and I'm 54.

Haha jim carry

Man who else appreciates this real country?? Still jamming to this 2019

I wish I could play with these dudes

Hard to beat this. We are lucky to have had George on this planet with us.

Love George

still love this, after all this time <3

George Jones. "The Rolls Royce of country music".

0:00 free replay 😁

They just don't write lyrics this clever anymore. That's what I've always liked and appreciated about older country: the lyrics were always just clever and told a good story.

I don’t think anyone will fill his shoes

I love this song it's so awesome

Jim carrey is the man !

Love playin possum as loud as my speakers will go.

Thanks to the Grateful Dead for introducing me to this song.

Whoever's singing harmony should get some credit, too. What a great sixties song this is!

THIS MAN DOESNT EVEN COMPARE TO HANKWILLIAMS ASS EATERS

who played the guitar solo

Someone needs to make a cartoon music video for this song with him driving his riding lawnmower, while drunk, to the liquor store

George Jones looks like jim Carey when he played in me myself and Irene

Gotta be a Fender Bass VI on the solo...

they asked johnny cash who his favorite singer was; johnny said, you mean after george jones?

Still listening Sept 17 2019 ,who is with me

Hell yeah

Eternally 🔥👌🏼

Oct 5th 2019 for me but I'm with ya man

Been listening since the 60s.

My birthday 🤙🥳

Why do I feel like cooking up some moonshine?

I love this song but I could not help but ask why they put jim Carey on the photo for the song lol......😂🤣

George Jones ❤

George is the best. Willie, Waylon, and all those blokes wish they were as good as George Jones.

The lead part would have sounded much better and more complete had he used upstrokes and down strokes in his solo....using only the down stokes made the solo sound choppy..I'm used to hearing much better solos, as far a George goes..Perfect...I've listened to him since 1966 in Chicago with all the southerners that lived with us...

Classic!!!

George Jones ❤

Kelso Herston on bass guitar. Died of dementia.

My most favorite country song ever.

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Please Jim Carrey!! Make Jones proud and do a movie for him!!!

Now there's a haircut you can set your watch to!

when that guitar kicks in.....got damn!!!

and you wanna drink

He looks like a southern soldier

they ask'ed johnny cash who was his favorite singer was' johnny said you mean after george jones?

I feel tears wellin' up cold and deep inside
Like my heart's sprung a big leak
And a stab of loneliness sharp and painful
That I may never shake
You might say that I was taking it hard
Since you wrote me off with a call
But don't you wager that I'll hide in sorrow
When I may lay right down and bawl
Now the race is on
And here comes pride in the backstretch
Heartaches goin' to the inside
My tears are holdin' back, they're tryin' not to fall
My hearts out of the runnin'
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all
One day I'd ventured in love
Never once suspectin' what the final result would be
And how I lived in fear of waking up each morning
Thinking that you gone from me
There's ache and pain in my heart
For today was the one that I hated to face
Somebody new came up to win her
I came out in second place
Well the race is on
And here comes pride in the backstretch
Heartaches goin' to the inside
My tears are holdin' back, they're tryin' not to fall
My hearts out of the runnin'
True love's scratched for another's sake
The race is on and it looks like heartaches
And the winner loses all

That guitar solo sounds like a wet fish slopping about on the shore. 👍👌

So sad I didn’t get to see him with my son live...

I remember when The Race is On was released in the mid-1960s when I was attending Texas Tech in Lubbock. Each time it came on in the dorm, all the radios on the wing were cranked-up to full flume, the dorm rooms flew open and we all gave off a string of country/cowboy hollers. I think this was the first country country (and Western) song to actually jump the charts to also be a mega hit on the Pop-40 list. STILL great today and really takes me back.

George Sickler Great story!

George we miss ya

I can yodel

500 idiots thumbs down

Had no idea Sawyer Brown did this as a cover. He did it well though.

Dave Edmonds does a decent job with his version.

Love this song

Jim Carrey at his finest

Oh, Wow!!!! This came out in the 1960s while I was at Texas Tech in Lubbock, in the Men’s Carpenter Hall dorm. Each time it came on the radio, just about every radio on the wing was cranked up to full volume, the doors to the hallway swung open and we all sang along with “cowboy yells.”

If fading memory is still kinda correct, this was among the first if not THE FIRST Country (& Western, as we called ‘em) Songs to cross over and actually hit the pop music charts, with Cher, Peter, Paul and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, and many, many more, including Mantovani for the after-hours group.

My boyfriend just told me he doesnt know who George Jones is...hes now my EX boyfriend

Hahaha but seriously, who DOESNT know about the ol possum?! Music legend!

Don't George Jones!?! Kick em to the curb, LOL!

@setdrift he listens to that scream/heavy metal crap haha! Maybe i should lol

This reminds me of Buck Owens. It has that Bakersfield Sound. (That's a good thing.)

A VERY good thing!

Very sweet. So sorry for your loss.

reminds me of skidoo races in gmb

freaking awesome

George Jones whos.gonna.fill.his.shoes.some.country.singer.needs.to.write.a
Song.who.s.going.to.fill.his.shoes.

Who can resist this incomparable voice?

Man, this song has such a badass guitar solo. Can anybody recommend old country songs with similar guitar sounds?

La Raza's on?

RIP George

My cover. let me know what y'all think of it https://soundcloud.com/adrian-fernandez-487972769/the-race-is-on-cover

My favorite singer of all time

They always played this at the skating rink when I was a kid

Old school country wins again I hate the new country era but I do love old country is that wrong no okay

George Jones is remarkable.. He sings so good. Those were the good old days!!

Jim looks like George remember he was born first

Jim Carrey does look like George Jones, but I hate Carry anyway.

Natchez Burning brough me here!

You said it George. R I p possum.

Sawyer Brown covered this song as well

the race is on and he stopped loving her today   the best real country  love hank Williams  to

Who are the 443 deaf mothers?

Now THAT is Country Music!!
Giggling

i like the way george wore a flat top back then so did willie nelson

This version is too slow, I like sawyer browns version better

Tales from the Tour Bus.

I grew up hearing this and even at 32 I listen to our and reminisce about my childhood.. I love it

Me myself and Irene

Be prepared for the barrage of "This is real country, Luke Bryan (insert corny/gay/captain obvious comment here)" comments!

2.3 million view. So very underrated Rest In Peace, possum. There will never be another.

Am I the only replay the intro?

Listening in 2018

theys two kinds of music...countryANDwestern....theys two kinds of country.....GeorgeANDJones

George Jones is the best

Sawyer brown didn't do a bad version imo..but can't touch this masterpiece 😎