## Metadata
**Caption:** 90s country, novelty storytelling, twangy guitar, upbeat mood, mid-tempo, male vocal
**BPM:** 77
**Duration:** 175.0s
**Key:** D major
**Time Signature:** 4

## Lyrics
[verse]
Billy Ray loved a girl named Sue
Didn't know quite what to do
No fancy words, no diamond ring
Just a can of paint and a crazy thing
Climbed the water tower before the light
Painted her name up there that night

[chorus]
Wrote it in John Deere green
Biggest love letter this town has seen
Up on the tower for the world to view
Billy Ray loves Sue, plain and true
Painted in John Deere green
Boldest thing that boy had seen
Whole town woke up and had to stare
At the sweetest secret painted up there

[verse]
Sheriff hollered, mama gasped out loud
Preacher wasn't exactly proud
But Sue looked up and started to cry
Best darn gift she'd seen roll by
They got married come the fall
Still got that story told by all

[chorus]
Wrote it in John Deere green
Biggest love letter this town has seen
Up on the tower for the world to view
Billy Ray loves Sue, plain and true
Painted in John Deere green
Boldest thing that boy had seen
Whole town woke up and had to stare
At the sweetest secret painted up there

[bridge]
Forty years later the paint's still there
Faded some but the town still cares
Every kid that passes by asks why
There's a name still painted against the sky

[chorus]
Wrote it in John Deere green
Biggest love letter this town has seen
Up on the tower for the world to view
Billy Ray loves Sue, plain and true
Painted in John Deere green
Boldest thing that boy had seen
Whole town woke up and had to stare
At the sweetest secret painted up there