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Reba McEntire feat. Kenny Chesney - Every Other Weekend

Every Other Weekend is a duet by American country music artists Reba McEntire and Kenny Chesney, recorded on the former's 2007 album Reba: Duets.

The song, written by Skip Ewing and Connie Harrington, is the third and final single from the album.

When shipped to radio, Chesney's vocals were replaced with Ewing's, although for most of its chart run the song was not credited to either duet partner.

"Every Other Weekend" is a mid-tempo ballad backed by piano and a string section. It alternates between the male and female duet partners, who take the roles of a divorced couple that share custody of their children and exchange them "every other weekend". Despite the fact that they are divorced, both characters state that they still love each other but are unable to tell each other in front of their children.

This song is about a divorced couple who every other weekend trade off the kids. The couple still wishes that they where together, and for 15 minutes they feel like a family again.

In the music video, Joanna García and Steve Howey, who were Cheyenne and Van Montgomery on the hit TV show Reba, play the roles as the two parents after the show had ended.

This was written by Skip Ewing and Connie Harrington. Ewing is also a singer, and duets with Reba on the single version of this song, singing from the perspective of the father. For the album, Kenny Chesney sang the father's part.

Music video

The music video was filmed in early June 2008, in Los Angeles, California.

The video was directed by Roman White and features Joanna García and Steve Howey, both of whom starred in McEntire's sitcom Reba as Cheyenne and Van, respectively.

Chesney and Ewing do not appear in the video, although Chesney's recording is used. The video debuted on July 8, 2008.

The lyrics:

Every other Friday

It's toys and clothes and backpacks

Is everybody in? Okay, let's go see Dad

Same time in the same spot

Corner of the same old parking lot

Half the hugs and kisses, they are always sad

We trade a couple words

And looks and kids again

Every other weekend

Every other weekend, very few exceptions

I pick up the love we made in both my arms

It's movies on the sofa

Grilled cheese and cut the crust off

But that's not the way Mom makes it

Daddy breaks my heart

I miss everything

I used to have with her again

Every other weekend

I can't tell her I love her

(I can't tell him I love him)

'Cause there's too many questions

And ears in the car

So I don't tell him I miss him

(I don't tell her I need her)

She's over me, that's where we are

So we're as close as we might ever be again

Every other weekend

Every other Saturday, first thing in the morning

I turn the TV on to make the quiet go away

I know why, but I don't know

Why we ever let this happen

Fallin' for forever was a big mistake

There's so much not to do

And all day not to do with him

Every other weekend

Every other Sunday I empty out my backseat

While my children hug their mother in the parking lot

We don't touch, we don't talk much

Maybe goodbye to each other

As she drives away with every piece of heart I got

I re-convince myself

We did the right thing

Every other weekend

I can't tell her I love her

(I can't tell him I love him)

'Cause there's too many questions

And ears in the car

So I don't tell him I miss him

(I don't tell her I need her)

She's over me, that's where we are

We're as close as we might ever be again

Every other weekend

Yeah, for fifteen minutes

We're family again

God, I wish that he was still with me again

Every other weekend