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I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will).

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Kenny Chesney
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 26
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