I Just Came to Get My Baby

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"I Just Came to Get My Baby"
Single by Faron Young
from the album Here's Faron Young
B-side "Missing You Was All I Did Today"
ReleasedJuly 1968
Genre Country
Label Mercury
Songwriter(s) Wayne Kemp
Faron Young singles chronology
"She Went a Little Bit Farther"
(1968)
"I Just Came to Get My Baby"
(1968)
"I've Got Precious Memories"
(1969)

"I Just Came to Get My Baby" is a single by American country music artist Faron Young. Released in July 1968, it was the second single from his album Here's Faron Young. The song peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. [1] It also reached number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. [2]

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Chart performance

Chart (1968)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles8
Canadian RPM Country Tracks1

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  2. "RPM Country Singles for October 28, 1968". RPM . Retrieved 30 March 2011.