| "Beer for My Horses" | ||||
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| Single by Toby Keith and Willie Nelson | ||||
| from the album Unleashed | ||||
| B-side | "Rock You Baby" | |||
| Released | April 7, 2003 | |||
| Recorded | 2002 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:24 (album version) 3:31 (Greatest Hits 2 version) | |||
| Label | DreamWorks Records 450785 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Scotty Emerick Toby Keith | |||
| Producer(s) | James Stroud Toby Keith | |||
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"Beer for My Horses" is a song recorded by American country music artists Toby Keith and Willie Nelson. It was written by Keith and Scotty Emerick for Keith's seventh studio album, Unleashed. The song was released as the album's fourth and final single on April 7, 2003.
"Beer for My Horses" was extremely popular but received mixed reviews from music critics. The single reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Keith's highest charting song of his career at the time. The song also peaked at number one for six weeks in the US Billboard Hot Country Songs (one of two songs to stay that long at the top for Keith), becoming Keith's eleventh number one single and Nelson's twenty-third, and his first since "Nothing I Can Do About It Now" in 1989. "Beer for My Horses" was certified Platinum once by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The accompanying music video was directed by Michael Salomon and premiered on CMT on April 9, 2003, during CMT Smash Hits of Country.[1]
"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.
- ^ "CMT : Music Video : Beer for My Horses : Toby Keith". CMT. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved 2014-03-22.