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Tearjerker: Reba’s music video dedicated to her late father

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Country superstar Reba McEntire is getting personal in her new music video.

The singer released “Just Like Them Horses” on Tuesday, dedicating it to her late father.

“I got the idea for the video one day and knew it was going to be the most meaningful, heartfelt video I’d ever do,” she explains in a message on her website. “We shot the entire video in Chockie, Oklahoma, on the McEntire homeplace. Those old hills mean a lot to me. I lived there 21 years and they still call me back time after time. This is a song about goodbye, closure and letting go.”

The video opens on a panoramic shot of the Oklahoma landscape, with a voiceover of McEntire asking, “How do you say goodbye? How do you say goodbye to somebody who made you, raised you, taught you, disciplined you, loved you? How do you say goodbye?”

Reba performed the song, written by Liz Hengber and Tommy Lee James, at her father’s funeral.

“The minute I heard it, I knew I wanted it played at Daddy’s funeral,” she writes. “When my producer Tony Brown heard it, he loved it so much, that he insisted on putting it on the album. It made both — the album and Daddy’s funeral.”

McEntire adds that she knew the beautifully shot images depicting the emotional tune, “were going to be the most meaningful heartfelt video I’d ever do. Those old hills mean a lot to me… and they still call me back time after time.”

McEntire closes her letter saying, “His life was horses, cattle, land, rodeo and business. Daddy did a lot of traveling in his life. When he wasn’t rodeoing or buying cattle, he was working hard on the ranch. I took him to Europe and Australia. On one of those trips he said, ‘If I ever get home, I’m not gonna go past the mail box. My favorite line of the song is, ‘Just like them horses, now it’s time to run.’ He did. He ran all the way to heaven. Just like them horses.”

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