Two Dozen Roses

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"Two Dozen Roses"
Single by Shenandoah
from the album The Road Not Taken
B-side "Hard Country"
Released August 1989
Recorded 1988
Genre Country
Length 3:42
Label Columbia Nashville
Writer(s) Robert Byrne, Mac McAnally
Producer(s) Rick Hall, Robert Byrne
Shenandoah singles chronology
"Sunday in the South"
(1989)		 "Two Dozen Roses"
(1989)		 "See If I Care"
(1990)

"Two Dozen Roses" is a song written by Mac McAnally and Robert Byrne, and recorded by American country music group Shenandoah. It was released in August 1989 as the fourth single from their album The Road Not Taken. It was their third number-one hit in both the United States[1] and Canada.

Content

The song's narrator offers hypotheticals to what may have changed his lover's mind about leaving him, such as "two dozen roses" instead of one dozen or "an older bottle of wine;" even going as far as asking "If I really could've hung the moon, would you change your mind?"

Chart performance

Chart (1989) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[2] 1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[3] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1989) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] 56
Chart (1990) Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] 50
Preceded by Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
December 16, 1989		 Succeeded by
"A Woman in Love"
by Ronnie Milsap
Preceded by RPM Country Tracks
number-one single
December 23, 1989-January 6, 1990

References

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  2. ↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 6643." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. December 23, 1989. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Shenandoah – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Shenandoah.
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External links

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