Wrong Number | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | George Jones |
Album: | George Jones Sings More New Favorites |
B-Side: | The Old, Old House |
Released: | April 1965 |
Recorded: | 1965 |
Genre: | Country |
Length: | 2:35 |
Label: | United Artists |
Producer: | Pappy Daily |
"Wrong Number" is a song by American country singer George Jones. Jones composed the song with Dickie Overby. It was released as a promotional single in 1965 and rose to #14 on the Billboard country chart. The song tells the story of a man who, filled with despair, calls his former lover on the telephone because he wants to hear her voice again. However, he dares not speak: "I bite my lip till the blood runs free and keep the words 'I love you' hidden deep, deep inside of me..." The woman assumes it is a wrong number and hangs up. Although not a major hit, "Wrong Number" is another in a long list of obscure George Jones songs that he sings, as Nick Tosches put it in the Texas Monthly in 1994, "as if his soul were on fire."