I Saw the Light (Wynonna song)

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“I Saw the Light”
Single by Wynonna from the album Wynonna
Released	1992
Genre	Country
Length	3:55
Label	MCA/Curb
Writer(s)	Andrew Gold Lisa Angelle
Wynonna singles chronology
"She Is His Only Need" (1992) "I Saw the Light" (1992) "No One Else on Earth" (1992)

"I Saw the Light" is a 1992 song performed by Wynonna, written by Lisa Angelle and Andrew Gold. The second single from Wynonna's self-titled debut album, it was also that album's second Number One hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. It was also ranked by Billboard as the Number One country hit for 1992.

The narrator of Wynonna's "I Saw the Light" discovers her lover is cheating on her when she peeks through the windows of his house and sees him romancing another woman, and afterward announces that she is leaving him.

[edit] Chart performance

Year	Chart	Position
1992	US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	1

Preceded by "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus	Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number one single by Wynonna July 4-July 18, 1992	Succeeded by "The River" by Garth Brooks
Preceded by "Don't Rock the Jukebox" by Alan Jackson	Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number one song of the year by Wynonna 1992	Succeeded by "Chattahoochee" by Alan Jackson