
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Kenny Chesney: No. 9
9. Kenny Chesney wrote his first song to get a girl, and ...
It didn't work (womp, womp). He told Jay Leno during a 2010 interview that it was a persuasion class, but he was unable to persuade the coed to get romantic. She only nodded her head politely. One senses he might have better luck today than he did during his college years at East Tennessee State University!
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