Time Marches on ( song ) - wikipedia Time Marches on ( song ) `` Time Marches On '' Single by Tracy Lawrence from the album Time Marches On Released March 18, 1996 Format CD single Genre Country Length 3 : 03 Label Atlantic Songwriter ( s ) Bobby Braddock Producer ( s ) Don Cook Tracy Lawrence singles chronology `` If You Loved Me '' ( 1996 ) `` Time Marches On '' ( 1996 ) `` Stars over Texas '' ( 1996 ) `` If You Loved Me '' ( 1996 ) `` Time Marches On '' ( 1996 ) `` Stars over Texas '' ( 1996 ) `` Time Marches On '' is a song written by Bobby Braddock, and recorded by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It was released in March 1996 as the second single and title track from his album Time Marches On. It was the fifteenth chart single of his career. It spent three weeks at Number One on the Billboard country charts in mid-1996, becoming the longest - lasting Number One hit of his career. It also received a Single of the Year nomination from the Country Music Association in 1996, as well as a Song of the Year nomination for both 1996 and 1997. Contents 1 Background 2 Content 3 Critical reception 4 Music video 5 Chart positions 5.1 Year - end charts 6 References Background The song is in a moderate tempo in the key of A major with a vocal range of A3 - F ♯ 5. It features three verses, with a bridge preceding the third. The introduction and interludes follow a chord pattern of A-F ♯ m for four measures. Each verse uses that same chord pattern for four measures, followed by D - Bm for two measures, two more A-F ♯ m measures, ending on Bm - F ♯ m - Bm - A. The bridge uses D - Bm twice, A-F ♯ m twice, D - Bm twice again, and ends on E-Bm - D-E-A. After the third verse, Lawrence sings the line `` Time marches on '' several times over the chord pattern F ♯ m - Bm - A. Content The song details various events in the lives of a married couple and their two children, starting with the children 's young childhoods, then moving through their adolescences and adulthoods. In the bridge, the narrator observes that `` the only thing that stays the same is that everything changes ''. By the final verse, the children have grown up and moved away, the daughter is now a single grandparent, the son is on a diet to control his high cholesterol, the mother is senile ( possibly Alzheimer 's ) and the father has died. Each verse also references various items of pop culture. Critical reception Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine in her review of the album called the song a `` quirky kind of ' Pilgrim 's Progress ' set in the saga of a white - trash family. '' Price also reviewed the song as an official single. She called it an `` intriguing song that chronicles the life of a family in different stages ; it uses vivid images that connect the listener to the lyric through the characters and cultural references. '' She goes on to say that `` Lawrence 's delivery and Cook 's production are right on target... '' Music video The music video was directed by Marc Ball and premiered in March 1996. It shows Lawrence performing in front of an audience. It was filmed at Coyote Joe 's in Charlotte, North Carolina. Chart positions `` Time Marches On '' debuted at number 64 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of March 23, 1996. Chart ( 1996 ) Peak position Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) Year - end charts Chart ( 1996 ) Position Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) 51 US Country Songs ( Billboard ) References Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2008 ). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 0 - 89820 - 177 - 2. Jump up ^ `` CMA Awards database ''. Country Music Association. Retrieved 2008 - 09 - 27. Jump up ^ `` ' Time Marches On ' sheet music ''. musicnotes.com. Retrieved 19 June 2016. Jump up ^ Billboard, March 9, 1996 Jump up ^ Billboard, April 6, 1996 Jump up ^ `` Top RPM Country Tracks : Issue 3008. '' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. June 24, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Tracy Lawrence Chart History ( Hot Country Songs ) ''. Billboard. Jump up ^ `` RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1996 ''. RPM. December 16, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Best of 1996 : Country Songs ''. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013. Tracy Lawrence Studio albums Sticks and Stones Alibis I See It Now Time Marches On The Coast Is Clear Lessons Learned Tracy Lawrence Strong For the Love All Wrapped Up in Christmas The Rock Compilation albums Tracy Lawrence Live and Unplugged The Best of Tracy Lawrence Then & Now : The Hits Collection The Very Best of Tracy Lawrence Notable singles `` Sticks and Stones '' `` Today 's Lonely Fool '' `` Runnin ' Behind '' `` Somebody Paints the Wall '' `` Alibis '' `` Ca n't Break It to My Heart '' `` My Second Home '' `` If the Good Die Young '' `` Renegades, Rebels and Rogues '' `` I See It Now '' `` As Any Fool Can See '' `` Texas Tornado '' `` If the World Had a Front Porch '' `` If You Loved Me '' `` Time Marches On '' `` Stars over Texas '' `` Is That a Tear '' `` Better Man, Better Off '' `` How a Cowgirl Says Goodbye '' `` The Coast Is Clear '' `` Lessons Learned '' `` Lonely '' `` Unforgiven '' `` Life Do n't Have to Be So Hard '' `` Paint Me a Birmingham '' `` It 's All How You Look at It '' `` Used to the Pain '' `` Find Out Who Your Friends Are '' Related articles Discography Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Time_Marches_On_(song)&oldid=847325403 '' Categories : 1996 singles 1996 songs Tracy Lawrence songs Songs written by Bobby Braddock Billboard Hot Country Songs number - one singles RPM Country Tracks number - one singles Song recordings produced by Don Cook Atlantic Records singles Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Canadacountry Singlechart called without artist Singlechart called without song Singlechart usages for Billboardcountrysongs Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 24 June 2018, at 14 : 33 ( UTC ). 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Question: who sings the country song time marches on
Answer: Tracy Lawrence