I Meant Every Word He Said I Meant Every Word He Said "I Meant Every Word He Said" is a song co-written by Joe Chambers, Bucky Jones and Curly Putman, and recorded by American country music artist Ricky Van Shelton. It was released in June 1990 as the third single from the album "RVS III". It peaked at number 2 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart and reached number 1 on the Canadian "RPM" country singles chart. The narrator tells his former love that everything her new man is telling her is what he really meant to tell her himself. She gets married to the
Twilight in the Wilderness country falling into discord on the brink of the Civil War. In this context, the painting is considered patriotic. Sanford Robinson Gifford's "A Twilight in the Catskills" (1860) has been interpreted similarly. "Twilight in the Wilderness" was commissioned for William T. Walters. It was acquired by John Taylor Johnston in 1866, and then sold to John Work Garrett in 1876. It was inherited by his daughter Mary Garrett, and sold to family friend (and John Taylor Johnston's son-in-law) Robert de Forest. His brother Lockwood de Forest inherited it in 1931, and the painting descended through the family until sold by