| "Rockin' Years" | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Single by Dolly Parton with Ricky Van Shelton | ||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Eagle When She Flies and Backroads | ||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "What a Heartache" | |||||||||||||||||||
| Released | February 4, 1991[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" single, CD Single | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | November 8, 1990[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Country | |||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:25 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Columbia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Floyd Parton | |||||||||||||||||||
| Producer | Steve Buckingham, Gary Smith, Dolly Parton[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Rockin' Years" is a song written by Floyd Parton and released as a single in 1991 by American country music artists Dolly Parton and Ricky Van Shelton. Serving as the lead-off single to both Parton's 1991 album Eagle When She Flies and Shelton's 1991 album Backroads, the song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, giving Parton her twenty-third number one and Shelton his eighth. The song would be Parton's last chart-topper until 2005.
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The song is a mid-tempo country waltz in which two narrators — a male and a female — promise to love each other until their "rockin' years"; i.e., when they are old and sitting in rocking chairs together.
| Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 1 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
| Preceded by "Down Home" by Alabama |
Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number-one single April 27-May 4, 1991 |
Succeeded by "If I Know Me" by George Strait |
| RPM Country Tracks number-one single May 18, 1991 |
Succeeded by "Drift Off to Dream" by Travis Tritt |
George Jones recorded a version of this song with Parton on his 2008 album Burn Your Playhouse Down - The Unreleased Duets.
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