Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone) (song)

"Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)" is the title track from Tanya Tucker's third album and was written by David Allan Coe. It was released in December 1973 as a single, it topped the U.S. country chart on March 30, 1974, for one week to become Tucker's third number-one song on the chart.^[1] On the Billboard Hot 100, the song peaked at number 46. Only her 1975 number-one country hit, "Lizzie and the Rainman", would perform better on the pop chart. Coe later recorded the song as the b-side to his 1975 single "You Never Even Called Me by My Name." In 1975, a version by veteran Australian singer Judy Stone reached into the top 5 of the Australian pop charts. Willie Nelson recorded the song on his 1983 album, Take it to the limit. In 2000, Johnny Cash covered the song on his album, American III: Solitary Man.

Alf Robertson covered the song in 1978, in Swedish as "Jennifers frågor".^[2]

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