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Remember that story we laughed about — the man on the green lawnmower? Yeah… that was George Jones. The one who wouldn’t let a missing car key stop him. When his wife hid every set, he found the riding mower with the keys still in it — and drove eight miles to the liquor store. Years later, he did it again. Tammy Wynette woke up to find him gone, only to spot that same mower parked outside a bar ten miles away. When she arrived, George just grinned and said, “Well fellas, here she is now. My little wife. I told you she’d come after me.” Vince Gill even tipped his hat to that story in “One More Last Chance” — “She might have took my car keys, but she forgot about my old John Deere.” And in the video? Vince drives right past George Jones on a mower — because some country legends aren’t just stories… they’re true.

The Possum on the Mower: The Wildest (and Truest) Story in Country Music

Have you ever heard a story so ridiculously over-the-top that you just knew it had to be made up? Well, let me tell you about a country music legend, George Jones, and his absolute refusal to be kept from a good time. This isn’t just a story; it’s a piece of music history that proves truth is often way funnier than fiction.

So, picture this: it’s the late 1960s. George Jones, affectionately known as “The Possum,” wants to go to the liquor store. The only problem? His wife, trying to curb his habits, has hidden the keys to every single car they own. A normal person might call a friend or just stay home. But George Jones was not a normal person. He spotted his riding lawnmower in the yard, keys dangling, and thought, “Well, that’ll do.” He then proceeded to drive that mower a full eight miles down the road to Beaumont, Texas, to get his drink.

You’d think that would be a one-time thing, right? A hilarious lapse in judgment. Nope.

Fast forward a few years, and he’s now married to another country superstar, Tammy Wynette. She knew his tricks and, once again, hid all the car keys. Did it stop him? Of course not. Tammy woke up one morning to a strange silence and the distinct realization that George was gone. After a bit of searching, she found him—ten miles away, parked on his mower right outside a local bar.

The best part? When she walked in to get him, he wasn’t embarrassed at all. He just grinned at his buddies and announced, “Well fellas, here she is now. My little wife. I told you she’d come after me.” The sheer audacity is just brilliant!

This story became so legendary that it was immortalized in country music itself. In Vince Gill’s 1993 hit “One More Last Chance,” he sings the line, “She might have took my car keys, but she forgot about my old John Deere.” And if you watch the music video, who do you see cruising past Vince on a riding mower? None other than George Jones himself, tipping his hat.

It’s one of those tales that perfectly captures the larger-than-life personality of a true icon. It wasn’t just about the music with George; it was about a stubborn, unapologetic, and hilariously determined spirit that simply couldn’t be tamed. And that, my friends, is what makes a legend.

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“In the waiting, in the healing and the hurting…” Those words float through this image of Dolly, as though they settle softly into her bones. “Dolly once said she cried while recording this song because she ‘felt God in the room.’” That vulnerability — to feel a presence so deeply that tears follow — changes how we hear the rest. Right now, as she faces health challenges, those lines seem less like lyrics and more like lifelines. This photo isn’t of a performer on stage, but of someone bearing it all: faith, exhaustion, hope. Her eyes hold both fragility and fierce persistence. In that tension lies a fuller journey — one whose chapters we only glimpse here but whose weight carries far beyond the frame.

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