Wendell mobley biography of william

In Kenny Chesney's chart-topper, "There Goes My Life," a young man learns he's going to be a father — and thinks it's all over for him. Instead, the little girl that arrives quickly becomes his whole world. In the song's final verse, she's a young woman packing up her car to head for the west coast. Songwriter Wendell Mobley was once that young father-to-be with his life flashing before his eyes.

He first got the idea for the song on what would have been his daughter's 18th birthday and brought it to collaborator Neil Thrasher. Take us back! Do you remember the day you wrote "There Goes My Life?

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Neil Thrasher: If you want specific dates and times, you are talking to the wrong boys! That happened to me just right out of high school. We had this little girl, and she passed away within eight or nine months. Fast forward 18 years in Nashville, sitting at a red light.