Ashley McBryde Girl Goin’ Nowhere was released in 2018 as a track to her album by the same name. Her hit song “Girl Goin’ Nowhere,” reached country radio earlier this year and is a story very close to Ashley’s heart (based on when one of her high school teachers told her that her dreams of making it big in Nashville and in country music were never going to happen). Now, the singer-songwriter has a message for anyone who has ever doubted her potential!
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Ashley McBryde Girl Goin’ Nowhere
This is the inspiring track country fans need for the start of a new year. Hearing that someone thought her dreams were impossible fueled Ashely to push to be the best she could be.
“Every job I had I kept hearing her say, ‘You’re never going to be anything,’” Ashley begins. “For an educator to tell a kid that their dream is stupid, that is so ridiculous and most educators would never do that. But in all reality, she gave me my first experience with rejection and the word ‘no.'”
Ashley has a little something that one might laugh at and call mischievous in mind for that teacher. “I’m going to send her a copy of the record,” says Ashley. “I’m not gonna sign it, but I’m going to send her a copy of the record with a Post-it note on the front that says ‘Thank you for the years of inspiration.’” Ashley has released a compilation video and audio video for “Girl Goin’ Nowhere”. Check out both video versions and the lyrics below.
Ashley McBryde Girl Goin’ Nowhere Video (Compilation Version)
Listen to the audio video track below!
Ashley McBryde Girl Goin’ Nowhere Video (Audio Version)
Ashley McBryde Girl Goin’ Nowhere Lyrics
Don’t waste your life behind that guitar
You’re not the first, you won’t be the last
And you can tell us all about it when you come crawling back
That road you’re on, just winds and winds
Your spinning your wheels and wasting you’re time
And I hear the band
And where they said I’d never be is exactly where I am
I hear the crowd
I look around
And I can’t find an empty chair
Not bad for a girl goin’ nowhere
Heard your song on my radio
We always said you’d make it big
And I tell all my friends, I knew you back when
So don’t forget all us little folks
And when you crash and burn
Remember we told you so
And I hear the band
And where they said I’d never be is exactly where I am
I hear the crowd
I look around
And I can’t find one empty chair
Not bad for a girl goin’ nowhere
For that first set of strings
And all those folks who swore I’d never be anything
It took a whole lot of yes I wills and I don’t care
A whole lot of basement dives and county fairs
To this show right now and y’all sure look good out there
Not bad for a girl goin’ nowhere
Not bad for a girl goin’ nowhere
