"Sacred Ground" is a country music song, co-written and originally recorded by American singer Kix Brooks, prior to his joining Ronnie Dunn in the duo Brooks & Dunn. Brooks' version was issued in 1989 as a single, and was included on his 1989 self-titled debut album.
A second version was recorded three years later by the country band McBride & the Ride. Released in 1992, that version would become the group's highest-charting hit, reaching a peak of #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts.
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"Sacred Ground" is a mid-tempo ballad centralizing on a male narrator, who is talking to another man that wants to commit adultery on the narrator's wife.[1] In the first verse, the singer tells of how he married at an early age, and had to work various jobs to sustain his family. He defends his relationship with his wife in the chorus: "We were joined in the eyes of the Lord in the eyes of our hometown / Why don't you leave her alone / You're treadin' on sacred ground".
[edit] Kix Brooks version
Kix Brooks' version was released in 1989. It was the second and final single from his debut album Kix Brooks, and it reached a peak of #87 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles charts. Although Brooks never charted any solo singles afterward, he joined Ronnie Dunn in the duo Brooks & Dunn in 1991.
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles |
87 |
[edit] McBride & the Ride version
Three years after Brooks's version charted, McBride & the Ride recorded its own version of "Sacred Ground." It was released in March 1992 as the lead-off single to the band's second album, also titled Sacred Ground. The song reached a peak of #2 on the Billboard country charts (having been blocked from Number One by Billy Ray Cyrus' debut single "Achy Breaky Heart"[1]), representing the band's highest chart peak.
[edit] Music video
The music video was directed by Bill Young and premiered in early 1992.
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks |
2 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks |
2 |
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- "Baby, When Your Heart Breaks Down"
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- "New to This Town"
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