It's a Business Doing Pleasure With You

Album: Southern Voice (2009)
Charted: 59
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Songfacts®:

  • This upbeat track was the lead single from Tim McGraw's 12th studio album, Southern Voice. In the song, McGraw has fallen for a girl with very expensive tastes, and she's bleeding him dry. Not only does she make him buy her diamonds and designer duds, she makes him go out for sushi, his "personal hell." Why does he put up with her? Because when she turns on the lovin', he can't say no.
  • This tongue-in-cheek tale about the price of love was penned by Nickelback's Chad Kroeger and singer-songwriter Brett James ("Jesus, Take The Wheel," "Out Last Night"). The title is an inversion of the phrase "It's a pleasure doing business with you."

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