About The Song
On September 16, 1995, Tim McGraw’s “I Like It, I Love It” peaked on the number one spot. It placed at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It spent a total of five weeks on the said chart. The song’s final and fifth week started from October 8 to October 14, 1995.
Written by Jeb Stuart Anderson, Steve Dukes and Mark Hall, the uptempo “I Like It, I Love It” — with lines such as, “I like it, I love it, I want some more of it / I try so hard, I can’t rise above it / Don’t know what it is ’bout that little gal’s lovin’ / But I like it, I love it, I want some more of it” — also became an unofficial sports anthem. It was often played during ABC’s Monday Night Football broadcasts, and it is the goal celebration song for the NHL’s Nashville Predators. Fortunately for McGraw, he didn’t follow his initial reaction to the now-hit song.
“I didn’t think much about recording it,” he recalls to Huntsville radio station WDRM-FM. “I was kind of cold on it, and I listened to it again, and for some reason, it hit me a whole lot different the second time around. And then when we went in and cut the track, the track just turned out so fun and so cool that it really didn’t matter how much I liked it anymore after we got to the track, because I loved it after that.”
“I Like It, I Love It” stayed at the top of the charts for five weeks. It is included on McGraw’s 2000 Greatest Hits album, his 2008 Greatest Hits: Limited Edition album and his 2010 Number One Hits album.
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Lyrics
Spent 48 dollars last night at the county fair
I throwed out my shoulder, but I won her that teddy bear
She’s got me sayin’ “Sugar Pie”, “Honey”, “Darlin'”, and “Dear”
I ain’t seen the Braves play a game all year
I’m gonna get fired if I don’t get some sleep
My long lost buddies say I’m getting in too deep
But I like it, I love it, I want some more of it
I try so hard, I can’t rise above it
Don’t know what it is ’bout that little girl’s lovin’
But I like it, I love it, I want some more of it
My mama and daddy tried to teach me courtesy
But it never sank in ’til that girl got a hold of me
Now I’m holdin’ umbrellas, and opening up doors
I’m taking out the trash and I’m sweeping my floor
I’m crossing my fingers, and counting every kiss
Prayin’ that it keeps goin’ on like this
‘Cause I like it, I love it, I want some more of it
I try so hard, I can’t rise above it
I don’t know what it is ’bout that little girl’s lovin’
But I like it, I love it, I want some more of it
Gotta wash my truck and dress up
To pick her up to watch TV
When she sits down on the sofa, she’ll move a little closer
She can’t get enough of me
And I like it, I love it, I want some more of it
I try so hard, I can’t rise above it
I don’t know what it is ’bout that little girl’s lovin’
But I like it, I love it, I want some more of it
Come on, baby
You know what I like
Yeah, I like that
Hey, don’t forget to turn out the lights
