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2007 single by Brooks & Dunn

"God Must Be Busy"

Single by Brooks & Dunn

from the album Cowboy Town

Released

November 5, 2007

Recorded

2007

Genre

Country

Length

3:42

Label

Arista 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.

Content

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

Chart (2007–2008)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)	11
US Billboard Hot 100	78
Canada Country (Billboard)	11
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)	92

Year-end charts

Chart (2008)	Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)	52

Parodies

American parody artist Cledus T. Judd released a parody of "God Must Be Busy" titled "Garth Must Be Busy" as a duet with Ronnie Dunn on his 2009 album Polyrically Uncorrect.

References

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

Brooks & Dunn

Kix Brooks
Ronnie Dunn

Studio albums

Compilations

Singles

1990s

"Brand New Man"
"My Next Broken Heart"
"Neon Moon"
"Boot Scootin' Boogie"
"Lost and Found"
"Hard Workin' Man"
"We'll Burn That Bridge"
"She Used to Be Mine"
"Rock My World (Little Country Girl)"
"That Ain't No Way to Go"
"She's Not the Cheatin' Kind"
"I'll Never Forgive My Heart"
"Little Miss Honky Tonk"
"You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone"
"Whiskey Under the Bridge"
"My Maria"
"I Am That Man"
"Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing"
"A Man This Lonely"
"Why Would I Say Goodbye"
"Honky Tonk Truth"
"He's Got You"
"If You See Him/If You See Her" (with Reba McEntire)
"How Long Gone"
"Husbands and Wives"
"I Can't Get Over You"
"Missing You"
"Beer Thirty"

2000s

"You'll Always Be Loved by Me"
"Ain't Nothing 'bout You"
"Only in America"
"The Long Goodbye"
"My Heart Is Lost to You"
"Every River"
"Red Dirt Road"
"You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl"
"That's What She Gets for Loving Me"
"That's What It's All About"
"It's Getting Better All the Time"
"Play Something Country"
"Believe"
"Building Bridges" (with Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill)
"Hillbilly Deluxe"
"Proud of the House We Built"
"God Must Be Busy"
"Put a Girl in It"
"Cowgirls Don't Cry" (with Reba McEntire)
"Indian Summer"
"Honky Tonk Stomp" (with Billy Gibbons)

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