That somebody was supermodel Niki Taylor, who both played the role in the music video and dated Keith on and off for 3 years until their break up was officially announced in 2004.

The Orange Blossom Special was a deluxe passenger train (operated primarily by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad) that went between New York City and Miami in the US.

The train was marked by its excellent passenger service and luxury. “The World’s Greatest Railway Buff”, E. M. Frimbo, offered this account of a dining car chef who had worked aboard the train:

Our chef… spent nine of his forty-three years with the Pennsylvania Railroad as chef on the celebrated all-Pullman New York-to-Florida train the Orange Blossom Special—the most luxurious winter-season train ever devised by man. Nothing even remotely resembling a can opener was allowed on the premises. All the pies, cakes, rolls, birthday cakes were baked on board under his supervision. Cut flowers and fresh fish were taken on at every re-victualling stop, and the train carried thirty-five hundred dollars' worth of wine, liquor and champagne… for each run.

Charlie Daniels told Songfacts that the idea for this song came from a poem he read in high school called “The Mountain Whippoorwill” by Stephen Vincent Benet.

Daniels stated:

We had gone in and rehearsed, written, and recorded the music for our Million Mile Reflections album, and all of a sudden we said, ‘We don’t have a fiddle song.’ I don’t know why we didn’t discover that, but we went out and we took a couple of days' break from the recording studio, went into a rehearsal studio and I just had this idea: ‘The Devil went down to Georgia.’ The idea may have come from an old poem that Stephen Vincent Benet wrote many, many years ago. He didn’t use that line, but I just started, and the band started playing, and first thing you know we had it down.

Turpentine is a fluid that is obtained by distilling the resin obtained from trees, primarily pine trees. In day-to-day use, it is a chemical used in many cleaning products for its antiseptic properties and fresh smell.

Miranda utilizes this uncommon word to complete her metaphor regarding the slippery nature in which the lies come out of her man.

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade…a valuable lesson that Dolly’s mom would go on to teach her. Dolly explained in her 1994 memoires, “My Life and Other Unfinished Business”, because she could find no paper, as the song came to her, she wrote it on the back of a dry cleaning receipt from one of Porter Wagoner’s suits. When the song became a hit, Wagoner had the receipt framed.