Get Your Lie the Way You Want It

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"Get Your Lie the Way You Want It"
Single by Bonnie Guitar
from the album Miss Bonnie Guitar
B-side "Would You Believe" [1]
ReleasedJune 1966
RecordedJanuary 1966
Hollywood, California, U.S. [1]
Genre Country, Nashville Sound
Label Dot
Songwriter(s) Billy Mize
Producer(s) Bonnie Guitar, George Richey
Bonnie Guitar singles chronology
"I'm Living in Two Worlds"
(1965)
"Get Your Lie the Way You Want It"
(1966)
"The Tallest Tree"
(1966)

"Get Your Lie the Way You Want It"' is a song written by Billy Mize, which was recorded by American country artist Bonnie Guitar. The song was released as a single in June 1966 and peaked at number fourteen on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart. "Get Your Lie the Way You Want It" became Guitar's fourth major hit as a musical artist. [2] It was later released on Guitar's 1966 album entitled, Miss Bonnie Guitar on Dot Records.

Chart performance

Chart (1966)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles14

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References

  1. 1 2 "Discographies: Bonnie Guitar". Praguefrank's Country Music. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research.