About The Song
“Vidalia” is a song written by Tim Nichols and Mark D. Sanders, and recorded by American country music artist Sammy Kershaw. It was released in July 1996 as the second single from the album Politics, Religion and Her. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
The song is a wordplay on Vidalia onions and a woman named Vidalia.
Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a “nice blend of cuteness and country boy wit rolled into a song of love and longing. She goes on to say that it is the kind of left-of-center love song that Kershaw has “always excelled at.”
The music video was directed by Michael Merriman and premiered in mid-1996. It was filmed during Kershaw’s 1996 tour, and in Vidalia, Georgia, and features Kershaw performing to a large crowd, and scenes of farmers harvesting Vidalia onions.
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Lyrics
Ain’t nothin’ so precious as a first born child
What to call their little angel
They wondered for awhile
Your dear mama Violet
And your proud daddy Dale
I know when they named ya
They surely meant well (but)
Vidalia, Vidalia
Girl won’t you tell me why
Sweet Vidalia
You always gotta make me cry
Never paid no attention to a girl before
Till the day I saw you standin’
In the Sunday school door
One boy sorta snickered when the roll was read
Till you laid the word of God
Up side his head
Vidalia, Vidalia
Girl won’t you tell me why
Sweet Vidalia
You always gotta make me cry
When I try to get too close
Seems like we’ve always been almost
Just one step or two away from true love
I love the way you walk, I love the way you kiss
I love to get away with you, alone like this
If I could just mention just one little thing
Vidalia, would ya stop livin’ up to your name
Vidalia, Vidalia
Girl won’t you tell me why
Sweet Vidalia
You always gotta make me cry
Vidalia
Girl won’t you tell me why
Sweet Vidalia
You always gotta make me cry
You always gotta make me cry
You always gotta make me cry
You always gotta make me cry
