Along with classic country songs like "He Stopped Loving Her Today," "The Grand Tour" and "White Lightning," there's a legendary tale that millions associate with George Jones.

The lawn mower story.

It might be country music's greatest tall tale, but the man himself said it was true. Once, during a terrible bout of binge drinking, Jones was left alone in his house with no booze. To stop him from driving to the liquor store, his wife had hidden all of his car keys.

"But she forgot about the lawn mower," Jones wrote in his autobiography, "I Lived To Tell It All."

"... I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did."

Jones cleaned up his act for good in 1999, living a sober life until his death in 2013 — but the lawn mower legend lives on.

Now, it's been immortalized in a new mural on the side of Nashville's Colonial Liquors, where Jones was once a frequent customer.

The mural was painted by Nashville artist Shawn Catz, along with a crew of musician friends. But the cartoon design of Jones and his riding mower actually comes from an episode of "Tales From the Tour Bus," an animated TV series by Mike Judge ("Beavis & Butthead," "King of the Hill").

Catz and Colonial Liquors were inspired to put something together after the episode depicting Jones' ride aired in 2017. It took some time, but they eventually secured permission from Judge and Cinemax to paint the mural. Nashville's George Jones Museum also gave its blessing.

When Jones penned his autobiography in the mid-'90s, the lawn mower story was a distant memory. He said it happened in Texas, while he was married to his second wife, Shirley Corley.

But with "Tales From the Tour Bus," things got even hazier. His former lawyer, John Lentz, said it happened in Nashville and that he and Tammy Wynette followed him in a car to Colonial Liquors (or "Melrose Liquors," as he referred to it).

At any rate, Jones has more than one connection to Colonial Liquors, which has been in business for more than 40 years. Songwriter Gary Gentry used to work behind the counter, and went from bagging bottles for Jones to writing his 1986 hit, "The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)."

In his later years, Jones would embrace the lawn mower legend, poking fun at the incident in music videos for Hank Williams Jr., Vince Gill and eventually his own "Honky Tonk Song." At his posthumous all-star tribute concert in Nashville, country duo Big & Rich drove riding mowers on stage.

You can see the mural of Jones and his lawn mower at 2401 Franklin Pike.