"We Danced" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American

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 country music artist Brad Paisley

Brad Paisley

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. It was released in June 2000 as the fourth and final single from his debut CD, Who Needs Pictures

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-Personnel:*Eddie Bayers - drums on tracks 1-3, 5, 9*Earl Clark - steel guitar on "Cloud of Dust"*Glen Duncan - fiddle and mandolin*James Gregory - bass guitar*Bernie Herms - piano, Hammond B-3 organ, Rhodes piano, strings*Wes Hightower - background vocals...

. The song reached the top of the Billboard

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Hot Country Singles & Tracks

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 (now Hot Country Songs

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) chart.

Background

Paisley said about the song: "We had no idea at first where we were going with this song. It started out with us focusing on a guy who owns a bar. And we began with the scenario that he's there working after the bar is closed, sweeping and putting the chairs up. Then this girl comes in who's forgotten her purse. We built the rest of the song around that concept. That's my favorite way of writing a song, because you never know where it's going. You're never pigeonholed by having to get from A to B, because you don't know what B is."

Content

The narrator of the song is a bartender who is closing the bar and cleaning up. A woman then walks in saying she left her purse behind. He says he has it and they begin to talk for a while. After that he says he'll only give here her purse on one condition, they dance. They fall in love and the narrator plans to propose. When she walks in after the bar is closed up, he proposes to her. She says she will on one condition, that they dance.

Chart performance

"We Danced" debuted at number 58 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of July 1, 2000.

Chart (2000–2001)	Peak Position