Edited sentence: Alan Jackson talks about the song in the liner notes for his The Greatest Hits Collection: "Jim McBride and I were trying to write an up-tempo song and Jim came in with the line 'way down yonder on the Chattahoochee'.It kind of went from there.It's a song about having fun, growing up.We never thought it would be as big as it's become.and coming of age in a small town - which really applies to anyone across the country, not just by the Chattahoochee