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"May You Never Be Alone" | ||||
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Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys | ||||
A-side | "I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living" | |||
Published | November 25, 1949 Acuff-Rose Publications [1] | |||
Released | January 1950 | |||
Recorded | March 1, 1949 [2] | |||
Studio | Castle Studio, Nashville | |||
Genre | Country, blues | |||
Length | 2:49 | |||
Label | MGM | |||
Songwriter(s) | Hank Williams | |||
Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys singles chronology | ||||
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"May You Never Be Alone" is a song written and recorded by Hank Williams. It was released as the flipside of "I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living" in January 1950.
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