2005Released
4:32

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This sweetly sentimental song by Don Sampson and Wynn Varble is about the stereotype that a woman is always late. Varble is probably best known for co-writing Darryl Worley's patriotic hit "Have You Forgotten?"

The video was shot at an outlet mall in Pea Island, North Carolina. It features Andy Griffith sitting on a bench with Paisley. The veteran actor explains to the country singer that a woman is worth waiting for. Paisley said on his press release: "'Waitin' on a Woman' is one of the most important songs I've recorded. It's a masterpiece written by Wynn Varble and Don Sampson, and the video demanded excellence and art to match the composition. Andy was my #1 choice for the video - he is the perfect person that embodies wisdom, years, and personality of the character in the video."

Wyn Varble told AOL the story behind the song. He explained: "A buddy of mine told me about a friend of ours who was in the hospital and wasn't doing well at all. After I hung up with him, I talked to the guy and asked how he was doing. He was in his last days, and I asked him where his wife was. He said he told her to go home, that there was nothing she could do there. That title came to mind, and that little story, the outline of it. Don [Sampson] and I had started a song the week before that we were going to finish, but Don said, 'Shoot, let's write this instead of that other one.' We finished it in one day. That afternoon, I went to town to play it for one of my song pluggers down there, Cris Lacy. She hears a million songs, and I looked up at her afterwards, and she had tears down her face. I told Don, 'I think we have something if it got through Cris Lacy's hard shell.' About a week later, somebody at Brad Paisley's company played it for him, and he put it on hold, and the rest is history."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Waitin' On a Woman.
CKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
76BPM

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Arista Nashville
(P) 2005 Sony Music Entertainment

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