"Hurry Home" is the title of a song written by Zane Williams

Zane Williams

Zane Williams is a native of Abilene, Texas. He is now a Texas Country singer/songwriter in McKinney, Texas.Zane's 2003 collection of music prompted a string of national awards for the relatively unknown artist. Zane was a finalist in an unprecedented three categories at MerleFest's Chris Austin...

, and first recorded by him on a 2005 album of the same name. Country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Jason Michael Carroll

Jason Michael Carroll

Jason Michael Carroll is an American country music artist. After being discovered at a local talent competition in 2004, Carroll was signed to the Arista Nashville label in 2006, releasing his debut album Waitin' in the Country that year...

 later recorded it on his 2009 album Growing Up Is Getting Old

Growing Up Is Getting Old

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, releasing it as that album's second single

Single (music)

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 in June 2009. The song is his fifth Top 40 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Content

"Hurry Home" is a mid-tempo country ballad mostly accompanied by acoustic guitar

Acoustic guitar

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, with piano

Piano

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 and electric guitar

Electric guitar

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 flourishes. Its lyrics describe a father who is very worried about his daughter, who ran away from home. In the first verse, the father records on his answering machine a message to tell her that he misses her and asks for her to "hurry home."

In the second verse, the father receives a call from "an old friend", who had just heard about his missing daughter. The friend told the father that if he saw his daughter, he would tell her to "hurry home." In the third verse, many days have flown by since the father has called his daughter, and in the song's bridge, the daughter has been abandoned by "her so-called friends" outside a bar

Bar (establishment)

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 in New York City

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, so she decides to call her father to tell him that she has decided to come home.

Zane Williams, who wrote the song, first recorded it in 2005. His rendition won him a $20,000 prize at the John Lennon Songwriting Contest

John Lennon Songwriting Contest

The John Lennon Songwriting Contest, named for the former member of The Beatles, is a songwriting competition for songwriters, open to amateurs and professionals. The contest accepts instrumental pieces as well as songs with a vocal component. Though all entries must include a CD, cassette, or...

.

Critical reception

Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave a positive review, saying that he considered it well-suited to Carroll's voice, also saying, " Anyone who is alive has felt that kind of limitless love be it as a child or a parent and that’s what makes this song a winner as it tells a gentile tale of the best kind of love. Country songs are best when they deal with human emotion and that’s what 'Hurry Home' does here."

Chart performance

"Hurry Home" debuted at number 56 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

chart dated July 11, 2009, and reached a peak of number 14 on the chart in February 2010. It also peaked at number 99 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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