This 1993 video from Gill kicks off laughs with a band member dropping a golf cart into a pond, but it’s the John Deere tractor that gets the real knee-smashing as soon as you see someone. driving it (why, none other than George Jones!). For those who don’t like the joke: One of the lines in the song, “She might have taken my car keys, but she forgot my old John Deere”, referring to the time Jones was drunk driving. his lawn mower to a bar later. his wife hid his car keys.