Bettin' Man

Album: Different 'Round Here (2019)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Bettin' Man" is about the end of a relationship. Riley Green is weighing the odds that his girl is gone for good.

    If I was a bettin' man
    I'd say she's halfway to Birmingham
    On the phone with her mom and them
    Cussin' me to hell and back again


    Green co-wrote the song with Erik Dylan and Jonathan Singleton after he split up with a girl from Birmingham. The Alabama native went to try to win her back, but she had already told her family and friends how horrible a boyfriend the singer had been. He explained to Billboard: "I wrote this song about how I probably couldn't get her back, and how she already told her mom and them all about everything. It's not always exactly the way it happened, but I definitely write from personal experience."

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