Life Don't Have to Be So Hard

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"Life Don't Have to Be So Hard"
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Single by Tracy Lawrence
from the album Tracy Lawrence
ReleasedSeptember 1, 2001
Genre Country
Length3:14
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s) Casey Beathard, Kenny D. West
Producer(s) Tracy Lawrence, Flip Anderson
Tracy Lawrence singles chronology
"Unforgiven"
(2001)
"Life Don't Have to Be So Hard"
(2001)
"What a Memory"
(2002)

"Life Don't Be So Hard" is a song recorded by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence. It was released in September 2001 as the first single from the album Tracy Lawrence . The song reached #36 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1] The song was written by Casey Beathard and Kenny D. West.

Chart performance

Chart (2001)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 36

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition. Record Research. p. 188.
  2. "Tracy Lawrence Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.