Watch George Jones and Tammy Wynette perform their hit “We’re Gonna Hold On” on Tammy’s NBC primetime special in 1980: For more videos: http://smarturl.it/TW_GJ_YT?IQid=fb20160117.leg | Legacy Recordings

They said George and Tammy were done — the fire had gone out, the story was over. But some love stories don’t end with divorce papers… they just find a new way to sing. 💔 One night in 1976, a janitor at the Opry found a torn envelope backstage. It read: “To Tammy — for the nights when the songs hurt more than the truth.” Inside was a handwritten lyric sheet, signed by George Jones himself. At the bottom, he’d written one last line: “If we can’t live the song together, at least let it remember u

“Golden Ring” tells the story of a wedding band that is bought from a pawn shop and given to a man’s wife. After their divorce, it ends up back in the pawn shop ready for its next owners. The irony that this song being released 14 months after George Jones and Tammy Wynette’s divorce is not lost on us. Watch Dillon Carmichael and Karen Waldrup perform it. | Country Rebel