<P> In the United States, a version of the song was released to the country music format as a duet with Jennifer Nettles, lead singer of the duo Sugarland . </P> <P> The country music version was originally recorded as a duet with Keith Urban, who also played banjo on the song . After Jon Bon Jovi decided that Urban's voice was too similar to his own, he asked a representative of Mercury Records to recommend a female duet partner . </P> <P> The music video for the country / Jennifer Nettles version, released in November 2005 and directed by Jon's brother, Anthony M. Bongiovi, features Habitat for Humanity volunteers, including members of the Philadelphia Soul Arena Football League team owned in part by Jon Bon Jovi, building homes for low - income families and was used to promote the organization . It won an award for Best Collaborative Video at the CMT Music Awards in 2006 . </P> <P> The shooting of the music video for the regular version, featuring a man dressed up as a dog, began at the March 9, 2006 Bon Jovi concert at the Glendale Arena outside Phoenix and continued in the Los Angeles area . The video was released in the week of week of March 27, 2006 . It was directed by Jeff Labbé through @ radical. media, lensed by David Lanzenberg, and edited by Steve Prestemon . </P>

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