"Where the Green Grass Grows" is a song written by Craig Wiseman

Craig Wiseman

Craig Michael Wiseman is an American country music songwriter. Active since the late 1980s as a songwriter, he has had his songs recorded by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, and several other acts....

 and Jess Leary and performed by Tim McGraw

Tim McGraw

Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the...

. Released in July 1998, it was the fifth single from McGraw's Everywhere album. The song reached number one on the Billboard

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now 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...

) chart and peaked at number seventy-nine on the Hot 100. It also reached number one on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.

Content

This songs states the narrator's desire to leave the big city and go back out into the country "where the green grass grows".

Chart performance

"Where the Green Grass Grows" debuted at No. 75 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of July 11, 1998.

Chart (1998)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	79
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1