"What I Need to Do"
Single by Kenny Chesney
from the album Everywhere We Go
ReleasedJanuary 31, 2000
Recorded1999
GenreCountry
Length4:04
LabelBNA
Songwriter(s)Tom Damphier
Bill Luther
Producer(s)Buddy Cannon
Norro Wilson
Kenny Chesney singles chronology
"She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"
(1999) 		"What I Need to Do"
(2000) 		"I Lost It"
(2000)

"What I Need To Do" is a song written by Tom Damphier and Bill Luther, and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released in January 2000 as the fourth and final single from Chesney's 1999 album Everywhere We Go. The song peaked at number 8 in the United States and number 13 in Canada in 2000.[1]

Content

The song describes the narrator thinking about "what [he] need[s] to do" as he is driving away from his old hometown away from his former lover. He also thinks that he should "turn [his] car around" and go back to his lover, then hold her, and then tell her how sorry he is for what he did.

Chart positions

Chart (2000) Peak
position
Canada Country (Billboard)[2] 13
US Billboard Hot 100[3] 56
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] 8

Year-end charts

Chart (2000) Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 36

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^ "Kenny Chesney Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard.
  3. ^ "Kenny Chesney Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  4. ^ "Kenny Chesney Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  5. ^ "Best of 2000: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2000. Retrieved August 15, 2012.


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