Choices - George Jones - 1999
Lyrics

I was tempted, by an early age I have found I like drinking.
Oh no I have never turned it down.
There were loved ones but I turned them all away.
Now I am living and dying with the choices I've made.

I've had choices since the day that I was born.
There were voices that told me right from wrong.
If I had listened
No I wouldn't be here today living and dying with the choices I've made.

I guess I am paying for the things that I have done.
If I could go back,
Oh Lord knows I would but I'm still losing this game of life I've played.
Living and dying with the choices I've made.

I've had choices since the day that I was born.
There were voices that told me right from wrong.
If I had listened I wouldn't be here today
Living and dying with the choices I've made.
Living and dying with the choices I've made.

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The year this was released, Jones was supposed to perform it on the televised CMA Awards. The CMA's wanted George to perform about 30 seconds of the song directly before a commercial break, so George backed out of the performance because he refused to perform only part of the song. During the live awards show, fellow Country singer Alan Jackson rebelled against the CMA's and stopped his song "Pop A Top" midway and started into the full version of this song. Rumor was from backstage at the CMA's after Alan Jackson broke the format and performed "Choices" on the awards show he walked straight out the back door saying, "That might be it for my career."

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