Gonna Get a Life

Album: What a Way to Live (1994)
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Songfacts®:

  • This was the first #1 Country hit written by Jim Lauderdale, a very successful songwriter whose credits include "We Touched The Sun" by Gary Allan and "Twang" for George Strait. In our interview with Jim Lauderdale, he told us: "I wrote that with a great guy, Frank Dycus. We wrote it really quickly, so sometimes it's funny, the songs that you really labor over might not get cut, so you really just never know."

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