Hang on to Your Life

"Hang on to Your Life"
Single by The Guess Who
from the album Share the Land
B-side "Do You Miss Me Darlin'"
Released December 1970 (CAN)
January 1971 (US)
March 1971 (UK)
Genre Rock
Length 4:09
Label Nimbus Records 0414 (CAN)
RCA Victor 0414 (US)
RCA Records 2065 (UK)
Writer(s) Burton Cummings, Kurt Winter
Producer(s) Jack Richardson
The Guess Who singles chronology
"Share the Land"
(1970)
"Hang on to Your Life"
(1970)
"Albert Flasher"/"Broken"
(1971)

"Hang on to Your Life" is a song written by Burton Cummings and Kurt Winter and performed by The Guess Who. It reached #5 in Canada[1] and #43 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971.[2] The song was also released in the United Kingdom as a single, but it did not chart.[3] The song is featured on their 1970 album, Share the Land.[4]

The song was produced by Jack Richardson and arranged by The Guess Who.[5]

At the end of the song Cummings recites verses 13-15 of Psalm 22.

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