Add LeAnn Rimes to the list of country singers who profess to not know where Portland, Maine, is.

A new duet version of the song “Portland, Maine” was released Thursday, featuring Rimes and Canadian singer-songwriter Donovan Woods. The song had first gotten people’s attention in Portland when it was released by country star Tim McGraw in 2014, mostly for the lyric “Portland, Maine. I don’t know where that is. And I don’t want to know.”

Portland’s mayor at the time, Michael Brennan, offered to give McGraw a tour and Maine media outlets began trying to find out from McGraw, and the songwriters, if they actually knew where Portland was and why the city was the subject of such a sad song. The song was written by Woods and Abe Stoklasa.

A few weeks after the song’s release, McGraw felt compelled to call Portland country radio station 99.9 The Wolf and explain, basically, it’s just a song and is not to be taken literally. The song is about a man so devastated by a breakup that he doesn’t want to know where his ex has fled to, which happens to be Portland, Maine. He told the station Portland was picked because it “just seems to sing really well.”

Rimes agreed to this new duet after she heard Woods’ own version of the song, and was struck by the “solitude” in his voice and the lonely feeling of the song, said Darrell Brown, Rimes’ longtime collaborator and manager. She began posting on social media about how much she liked the song, so at some point Woods asked her if she’d do a duet of it with him for the song’s 10th anniversary, Brown said.

“She’s always searching out new music and looking for new singers, and when she heard the song it just broke her heart,” Brown said Friday.

Rimes does in fact know where Portland is. She told Brown Friday she can’t recall if she’s ever played a gig in Portland, but she knows she’s driven through it many times on the way to other gigs. She performed at the Waterville Opera House in April and at the Snow Pond Center for the Arts in Sidney in 2022.

Rimes’ website doesn’t list any upcoming concerts in Portland, though Woods is scheduled to play the other Portland, the one in Oregon, next May.

In announcing the new version on social media this week, Rimes called Woods “one of the sweetest souls out there” and said she couldn’t wait for fans “to hear this beautiful duet.” On his Facebook page a week ago, Woods said he had some “Portland, Maine” news to announce soon, “and it’s not that I figured out where it is.”

Brown responded to the Press Herald on Rimes’ behalf Friday, because she was busy filming the new ABC action drama “9-1-1: Nashville,” which debuted Oct. 9. She plays the mother of a firefighter. A publicist for Woods did not immediately return an email Friday asking how he came to use Portland, Maine, for his song.

While Maine has shown up in a dozen or two pop songs, finding specific lyrics or titles referring to Portland is tougher. Jackson Browne’s 1977 song “Nothing But Time” has a line about “rolling down on 295 out of Portland, Maine” on a tour bus. Boston-based J. Geils Band released a weird spoken-word piece in 1980 called “No Anchovies, Please” which begins with the line “This is the story of a young couple in Portland, Maine.”