"My Give a Damn's Busted" is the title of a song, co-written by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Joe Diffie

Joe Diffie

Joe Logan Diffie is an American country music singer known for his ballads and novelty songs. Between 1990 and 2004, Diffie charted 35 cuts on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, including five number one singles: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced ", "Third Rock from the Sun",...

 along with Tom Shapiro

Tom Shapiro

Tom Shapiro is an American songwriter and occasional record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. To date, he holds four Country Songwriter of the Year awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated, as well as the Songwriter of the Decade award from the Nashville Songwriters...

 and Tony Martin

Tony Martin (songwriter)

Tony Martin is a country music songwriter who has had twelve Number One hits as a songwriter. Among his compositions are "Third Rock from the Sun" by Joe Diffie and "Just to See You Smile" by Tim McGraw....

. Diffie originally recorded the song on his 2001 album In Another World

In Another World

In Another World is the eighth studio album released by American country music artist Joe Diffie. His only album for Monument Records, it features the single "In Another World", a Top Ten single on the Billboard country singles charts in 2002. "This Pretender" was also released as a single,...

. The song was later recorded by Jo Dee Messina

Jo Dee Messina

Jo Dee Marie Messina , known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. She has charted nine Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and has been nominated for two...

 for her 2005 album Delicious Surprise

Delicious Surprise

Delicious Surprise is the name of the fourth album by American country music artist Jo Dee Messina, released in 2005. Her first studio album since Burn almost five years previous, it produced a Number One single on the Billboard country music charts in "My Give a Damn's Busted", a song co-written...

. Released in early 2005, Messina's version went on to spend two weeks at the top of the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts that year, and her first chart single since "I Wish" in late 2003-early 2004. Canadian country music singer Michelle Wright

Michelle Wright

Michelle Wright is a Canadian country music artist. She is one of the country's most widely recognized and awarded female country singers of the 1990s, winning the Canadian Country Music Association's Fans' Choice Award twice...

 included her version of the song on her 2006 album Everything and More

Everything and More (Michelle Wright album)

Everything and More is the seventh studio album by Canadian singer Michelle Wright, and was released on July 4, 2006 on Icon Records. The album includes the singles "Everything and More", "Love Me Anyway" and "I've Forgotten You", which was previously a single for American bluegrass singer Rhonda...

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The song appears in the game Karaoke Revolution Country.

Music video

A music video

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

was released for the song, directed by Peter Zavadil. The video took place in the middle of a big city street, with Messina performing with her band behind her. Also included, are scenes of her walking down a sidewalk while being followed by a persistent man, who she directs the spoken lines of the song towards.

Chart performance

Chart (2005)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	63
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	73