Eleven Roses
"Eleven Roses" | ||||
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Single by Hank Williams Jr. | ||||
from the album Eleven Roses | ||||
B-side | "Richmond Valley Breeze" | |||
Released | March 1972 | |||
Recorded | December 9, 1971 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 2:40 | |||
Label | MGM K 14371 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Lamar Morris and Darrell McCall | |||
Producer(s) | Jim Vienneau | |||
Hank Williams Jr. singles chronology | ||||
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"Eleven Roses" is a song written by Lamar Morris and Darrell McCall and recorded by American musician Hank Williams Jr. It was released in March 1972 as the only single and title track from the album of the same name. The song was Williams' first number one, as solo artist, on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart in July 1972, spending two weeks atop the chart. The song spent 14 weeks on the Hot Country Singles chart's top 40.[1]
Content
The song—recorded in the countrypolitan vein, and much different than Williams' later recordings—is a ballad about a man who gives his girlfriend a bouquet of 11 roses. The boyfriend, apparently repentant and remorseful for wrongs that he did to her ("after what I've done you may not keep my roses"), then asks her to look into the mirror while clutching the bouquet, hoping that she'll find that "the 12th rose will be staring back at you."
Charts
Chart (1972) | Peak position |
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US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] | 1 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
References
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- Your Cheatin' Heart
- Connie Francis and Hank Williams Jr. Sing Great Country Favorites
- Ballads of the Hills and Plains
- Blues My Name
- A Time to Sing
- Songs My Father Left Me
- Luke the Drifter Jr. – Vol. 2
- Live at Cobo Hall
- After You, Pride's Not Hard to Swallow
- Hank Williams Jr. and Friends
- Family Tradition
- Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound
- Habits Old and New
- Rowdy
- The Pressure Is On
- High Notes
- Strong Stuff
- Man of Steel
- Major Moves
- Five-O
- Montana Cafe
- Hank Live
- Born to Boogie
- Wild Streak
- Lone Wolf
- Pure Hank
- Maverick
- Out of Left Field
- Hog Wild
- A.K.A. Wham Bam Sam
- Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts
- Stormy
- The Almeria Club Recordings
- I'm One of You
- 127 Rose Avenue
- It's About Time
- Rich White Honky Blues
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits Vol. 2
- Fourteen Greatest Hits
- Hank Williams Jr.'s Greatest Hits
- Hank Williams Jr.'s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
- America (The Way I See It)
- The Best of Hank Williams Jr. Volume One: Roots and Branches
- Tribute to My Father
- 20 Hits Special Collection, Vol. 1
- Early Years, Vol. 1
- Early Years, Vol. 2
- The Bocephus Box
- That's How They Do It in Dixie: The Essential Collection
- "Long Gone Lonesome Blues"
- "Nobody's Child"
- "All for the Love of Sunshine"
- "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)" (with Lois Johnson)
- "Rainin' in My Heart"
- "Eleven Roses"
- "Rainy Night in Georgia"
- "I'll Think of Something"
- "I Fought the Law"
- "To Love Somebody"
- "Family Tradition"
- "Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound"
- "Women I've Never Had"
- "Kaw-Liga"
- "Old Habits"
- "Texas Women"
- "Dixie on My Mind"
- "All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)"
- "A Country Boy Can Survive"
- "Honky Tonkin'"
- "The American Dream"
- "Gonna Go Huntin' Tonight"
- "Leave Them Boys Alone" (with Ernest Tubb and Waylon Jennings)
- "Queen of My Heart"
- "Man of Steel"
- "Attitude Adjustment"
- "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight"
- "Major Moves"
- "I'm for Love"
- "This Ain't Dallas"
- "Ain't Misbehavin'"
- "Country State of Mind"
- "Mind Your Own Business" (with Reba McEntire, Tom Petty, Reverend Ike and Willie Nelson)
- "Born to Boogie"
- "Heaven Can't Be Found"
- "Young Country"
- "If the South Woulda Won"
- "Early in the Morning and Late at Night"
- "There's a Tear in My Beer" (with Hank Williams Sr.)
- "Finders Are Keepers"
- "Ain't Nobody's Business"
- "Good Friends, Good Whiskey, Good Lovin'"
- "If It Will, It Will"
- "Devil in the Bottle"
- "Are You Ready for the Country?" (with Eric Church)
- "The Conversation" (with Waylon Jennings)
- "That Old Wheel" (with Johnny Cash)
- "Bartender Song (Sittin' at a Bar)" (with Rehab)
- Hank Williams (father)
- Audrey Williams (mother)
- Jett Williams (half-sister)
- Hank Williams III (son)
- Holly Williams (daughter)
- Coleman Williams (grandson)
- Discography
- Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
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