Sing Me Back Home (song)

"Sing Me Back Home"
Single by Merle Haggard
from the album Sing Me Back Home
Released November 1967
Format 7"
Genre Country
Length 2:51
Label Capitol 2219
Writer(s) Merle Haggard
Producer Ken Nelson
Merle Haggard singles chronology
"Branded Man"
(1967)		 "Sing Me Back Home"
(1967)		 "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde"
(1968)

"Sing Me Back Home" is a 1967 single written and recorded by Merle Haggard. "Sing Me Back Home" would be Merle Haggard's third number one. The single spent two weeks at number one and a total of seventeen weeks on the country chart.[1] It was also recorded live by the Byrds on "There Is a Season".

In addition, the Grateful Dead performed it 38 times in concert between 1971 and 1973.[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1967–1968) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles 1

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 146. 
Preceded by
"For Loving You"
by Bill Anderson and Jan Howard		 Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single
January 20-January 27, 1968		 Succeeded by
"Skip a Rope"
by Henson Cargill