Blake Shelton helps Craig Morgan to No. 1 spot with song about losing his son

Craig Morgan lost his son Jerry following a boating accident in 2016. At the time, Jerry was 19 years old and the country music community banded behind Morgan to lift him and his family up in their time of grief. 

Now, they're doing it again. Morgan, who is currently without a record label, independently released his new song "The Father, My Son And The Holy Ghost" about coping with the loss of his son.

Lyrics include:  In the morning I wake up, give her a kiss, head to the kitchen| Pour a cup of wake-me-up and try to rouse up some ambition| Go outside, sit by myself but I ain't alone| I've got the Father, my son, and the Holy Ghost.

On Monday, Blake Shelton picked up the mantle for Morgan and ran with it becoming a one-man radio promotion team for Morgan.

"I would gladly give up my spot on country radio to get this song on," he tweeted. 

Over the next two days, Shelton kept rallying his social media followers, fellow celebrities and radio personalities to get behind Morgan's "The Father, My Son And The Holy Ghost."

He wrote: "Come on everybody this song deserves to be number 1 at least on iTunes. Tweet your friends, tag the song. All people need to do is hear it once. They will want to own it. This song deserves to be recognized."

By Wednesday, Ellen DeGeneres had tweeted about the song as had Gwen Stefani, Travis Tritt, Ricky Skaggs, actress Angie Harmon and more. 

"The Father, My Son And The Holy Ghost" started moving up the iTunes charts settling at No. 2 on the country charts and No. 9 on the all-genre chart Wednesday night.

But Shelton wasn't finished. He tweeted fellow "The Voice" star Carson Daly and Hoda Kotb late Wednesday night in an effort to keep pushing forward.

Morgan told People the beginning of the song came to him in a dream, which had never happened to him. He wrote lyrics for hours and converted them into the first new song he'd released in years. 

"I have heard from so many people already who have said that they had given up on their faith until they heard this song,” Morgan told People. “But I’m purely the one singing that song. It’s not about me. I was just the outlet, the way to get the song to the people who need it the most.”

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