The single was his second chart release and first to reach the Billboard Hot 100.
[4] The song is noted for the two spoken recitations, between the refrains of the song, telling first the men and then the women to keep on supporting their loved ones and not take them for granted.
Tex exhorts men that a "good woman" - someone he can call his own and minds their children and cooks his dinner before he comes home - is rare.
But when a man takes a woman like that for granted, he warns, and throws her away, she can be snapped up "before you can count one, two, three."
For women, Tex says the value of a good man is one who stands by her, brings home his pay from work and gives her all her heart desires.