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Story Behind the Song
Alan Jackson's "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)."
By Linda Owen
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"I've had so many people come up to me, and I don't know what to say, other than that I just feel like it was a gift from God," says Jackson, who sang in the choir at his Baptist church in Newman, Georgia, before moving to Nashville. "I don't know why he picked me to send those words to, but I'm glad it's been a healing song for some people.
"I think it was Hank Williams who said, 'God writes the songs, I just hold the pen.' That's the way I felt with this song."
Click here for lyrics to "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)."
Lyrics excerpted from "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" by Alan Jackson, ©2001 EMI Music/ Tri-Angels Music (ASCAP).
Copyright © 2003 by the author or Christianity Today International/Today's Christian magazine.
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