God's Gonna Get'cha (For That)

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"God's Gonna Get'cha for That"
Single by George Jones and Tammy Wynette
from the album George & Tammy & Tina
B-side "Those Were the Good Times"
ReleasedJune 1975 (U.S.)
Recorded1974 (1974)
Genre Country
Length2:38
Label Epic 50235
Songwriter(s) E. E. Collins
Producer(s) Billy Sherrill
George Jones and Tammy Wynette singles chronology
"We Loved It Away"
(1974)
"God's Gonna Get'cha for That"
(1975)
"Golden Ring"
(1976)

"God's Gonna Get'cha for That" is a song by country music singers George Jones and Tammy Wynette. Released in the spring of 1975, the song was the second of two chart singles from their 1974 duet album George & Tammy & Tina .

The song reached number 25 on the U.S. Hot Country Singles chart. [1] It asserts that the Christian god is aware of, and will inevitably judge, the sins of all people, particularly hypocrisy and hidden sins among professed people of faith including ministers.

Charts

Chart (1975)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles [2] 25

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 400.
  2. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 400.