Walker Hayes is proudly declaring his Swiftie standing on his New Money EP.
The eight-song report ends with a monitor titled, “Taylor Swift,” which chronicles his expertise attempting to safe tickets to the 33-year-old singer’s Eras Tour.
“Two Taylor Swift concert ticket stubs / Cost me more than my mortgage goes / And that was before T-shirts, cokes and popcorn /But, hey, I mean how many times does your little girl turn 9?” Hayes, 43, croons in the first verse. “Dave Ramsey wouldn’t like it/ But it was priceless watchin’ her watch her hero, singin’ every single word to every song.”
He continues: “In the nosebleeds, smilin’ like we have VIP passes on / So enchanted, ’til her bedtime struck like midnight and she yawned / And, climbed up in my arms, she was gone.”
The nation singer took his daughter Loxley “Lolly” — whom he shares with spouse Laney Beville Hayes — to watch Swift’s present earlier this summer time, which spans her a long time in the highlight.
While Walker marveled at Lolly’s pleasure to attend the Eras Tour on the monitor, he additionally supplied the sweetest perception into their father-daughter bond.
“Who am I that I get to hold a real life princess / While she sleeps through her way too expensive birthday gift?” he sings in the refrain. “I just hope that she grows up and always knows that me, her mom and Jesus / Love her even more than she loves Taylor Swift.”
Walker later provides: “When she turns 22 and I turn 56 / I hope she thinks of me when she hears Taylor Swift.”
In June, Walker first teased his “Taylor Swift” tune when he performed an acoustic model with Lolly for his Instagram followers. “Lolly’s new favorite song. True story time,” he captioned video footage of the pair performing the then-unreleased single of their kitchen.
To promote the launch of “Taylor Swift” on Friday, September 29, Walker uploaded a clip of Swift cheering for rumored boyfriend Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs to his Instagram Story. He added a “Listen to ‘Taylor Swift’” button to the publish, which linked to the track’s Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music pages.
Walker and Laney had been highschool sweethearts — who met throughout a college manufacturing of Little Shop of Horrors — earlier than they tied the knot in 2004. Since then, the “Fancy Like” singer and Laney have gone on to welcome six kids: Lela, Chapel, Baylor, Beckett, Loxley and Everly. (The duo’s seventh little one, daughter Oakleigh, was stillborn in June 2018.)
“It’s important that your father loves you and that you know it,” Walker instructed Fatherly in 2020 after his strategy to parenting. “I know it’s important from being a son. I know my dad loves me. It has helped me to grow into a man. I always want them to know I’m in their corner.”
He continued at the time: “We don’t wake up as their parents and know every single thing we’re doing. I tell my 13-year-old all the time that we’re learning as we go along. It’s important to teach them to forgive themselves and each other.”
Walker Hayes’ New Money EP is out now.
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