God Must Be Busy

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"God Must Be Busy"
Single by Brooks & Dunn
from the album Cowboy Town
ReleasedNovember 5, 2007
Recorded2007
GenreCountry
Length3:42
LabelArista Nashville
Songwriter(s)Clint Daniels
Michael P. Heeney
Producer(s)Kix Brooks
Ronnie Dunn
Tony Brown
Brooks & Dunn singles chronology
"Proud of the House We Built"
(2007)
"God Must Be Busy"
(2007)
"Put a Girl in It"
(2008)

"God Must Be Busy" is a song written by Clint Daniels and Michael P. Heeney, and recorded by American country music duo Brooks & Dunn. It was released in November 2007 as the second single from the album Cowboy Town. It reached a peak of number 11 on the Hot Country Songs charts in 2008.[1]

Content[edit]

Featuring lead vocals from Ronnie Dunn, "God Must Be Busy" tells of a man who is praying to God, asking for help in a failed relationship. Having not yet found a solution to his problems, he begins to list off various problems in the world, saying that God must be busy with those problems.

Chart performance[edit]

Chart (2007-2008) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 11
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 78
Canada Country (Billboard)[4] 11
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[5] 92

Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (2008) Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[6] 52

Parodies[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  3. ^ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  4. ^ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard.
  5. ^ "Brooks & Dunn Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard.
  6. ^ "Best of 2008: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2008. Retrieved December 13, 2008.