And then we started to develop a scenario and it became less of a joke and more of a cool thing. And as most of my co-writing goes, we sat and talked a while about it.
He came in and said, 'What if we write a song about somebody who's cheating on his wife, and every time he does it, the thunder rolls.' And I kind of laughed. Garth had been listening to that song - he'd been listening to stuff that (producer) Allen Reynolds had given him. It was the B-side of ' Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses.' There's a line about thunder rolling in the song. We'd written a song called ' Like A Hurricane' that Kathy Mattea had recorded. I'd written a song with Mark Sanders, who's a great songwriter, and he's a good friend. In a 2012 Songfacts interview with Pat Alger, he said: 'That was based on a song I'd written with another guy. Garth Brooks was a struggling songwriter when he got together with the Nashville writer Pat Alger and wrote this song.
