Living in the Promiseland

"Living in the Promiseland"
Single by Willie Nelson
from the album The Promiseland
B-side	"Bach Minuet in G" [1]
Released	February 1986
Genre	Country
Length	3:18
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	David Lynn Jones
Producer(s)	Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson singles chronology
"Me and Paul" (1985) "Living in the Promiseland" (1986) "I'm Not Trying to Forget You" (1986)

"Living in the Promiseland" is a song written by David Lynn Jones, and recorded by American country music artist Willie Nelson. It was released in February 1986 as the first single from the album The Promiseland . The song was Nelson's twelfth number one single on the country chart as a solo artist, spending one week at number one and twenty weeks on the chart. It was sung in the end credits of the 1987 HBO crime drama, Into the Homeland. ^[1]

In 1988, Jones recorded his own version of the song for his 1988 album Hard Times on Easy Street and included it as the B-side to his single "High Ridin' Heroes", a duet with Waylon Jennings, which reached number 14 on the same chart. ^[2]

Chart performance

Chart (1986)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3]	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 295. ISBN   978-0-89820-177-2.
2. Whitburn, p. 212
3. "Willie Nelson Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.