If I Know Me

"If I Know Me"
Single by George Strait
from the album Chill of an Early Fall
B-side "Home in San Antone"
Released March 12, 1991
Format 7" single, CD single
Genre Country
Length 2:42
Label MCA 54052
Writer(s) Pam Belford, Dean Dillon
Producer Jimmy Bowen
George Strait
George Strait singles chronology
"I've Come to Expect It from You"
(1990)
"If I Know Me"
(1991)
"You Know Me Better Than That"
(1991)

"If I Know Me" is the title of a song written by Pam Belford and Dean Dillon, and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in March 1991 as the lead-off single to his 1991 album Chill of an Early Fall. It peaked at #1 on both the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.[1]

Contents

Content

The narrator has just left his lover, but he knows that if he knew himself, then he'd turn his car around, and not get out of town, and come running back to her.

Music video

The music video was directed by Bill Young.

Chart positions

Chart (1991) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 1
Preceded by
"Rockin' Years"
by Dolly Parton with Ricky Van Shelton
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks
number-one single

May 11-May 18, 1991
Succeeded by
"In a Different Light"
by Doug Stone
Preceded by
"Drift Off to Dream"
by Travis Tritt
RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

June 1, 1991

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 336.