Luke Bryan flipped the switch to turn the Grand Ole Opry’s signature barn backdrop pink in honor of the Opry’s 11th annual Opry Goes Pink show in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. He also performed during the show and was surprised with the ACM Album of the Decade Award for his Crash My Party album!
The Opry Goes Pink
While the country music superstar hasn’t had anyone in his immediate family with breast cancer, he does have several friends and extended family go through this terrible disease. “Thankfully, no one in my close proximity of my family has had breast cancer, but we’ve had friends down in Georgia and obviously in Nashville, since I’ve been here, that have dealt with it,” shared Luke. “But, you know, the big thing that I always notice is the fans at my concerts that have the signs up, you know, they have a pink sign, ‘LAST CHEMO TREATMENT TODAY. BEATING CANCER,’ and that always is something that, that visual is always something that I leave the show with.”
The show also featured performances by Sara Evans, Craig Morgan, Travis Tritt, Anita Cochran, Joe Diffie, and the Oak Ridge Boys.
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“Knockin’ Boots” Lyrics
This truck needs a half tank
These wheels need a two-lane
This radio needs three songs to play
To get me across town to you
That dress needs to slip off
That hair needs to come down
Friday nights need to do
What Friday nights need to do
That’s the truth
Yeah, birds need bees and ice needs whiskey
Boys like me need the girls like you to kiss me
Fishing in the dark needs Nitty Gritty
Under that pale moon
Sweet tea needs that sugar stirring
Small town nights need both ends burning
Shades need drawing, hearts need falling
Boots need knocking, knocking boots
Knocking boots, me and you, oh
Long weeks need a weekend
Cheap drinks need a-slinging
That dance floor needs some me on you
And you want me tonight
Singalongs need to be sung
Tip bells need to be rung
Last calls need a call that cab
And backseats need I want you so bad
Yeah, birds need bees and ice needs whiskey
Boys like me need the girls like you to kiss me
Fishing in the dark needs Nitty Gritty
Under that pale moon
Sweet tea needs that sugar stirring
Small town nights need both ends burning
Shades need drawing, hearts need falling
Boots need knocking, knocking boots
Knocking boots, girl me and yo
Doors need shutting
Lights need cutting
Lips need locking
Boots need knocking
And birds need bees and ice needs whiskey
Boys like me need the girls like you to kiss me
Fishing in the dark needs Nitty Gritty
Under that pale moon
Sweet tea needs that sugar stirring
Small town nights need both ends burnin’
Shades need drawing, hearts need falling
Boots need knocking, knocking boots
Mmm, knocking boots, me and you, oh
Knocking boots
