Texas Women

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"Texas Women"
Single by Hank Williams Jr.
from the album Rowdy
B-side "You Can't Find Many Kissers"
ReleasedFebruary 7, 1981
Length2:29
Label Elektra/Curb
Songwriter(s) Hank Williams Jr.
Producer(s) Jimmy Bowen
Hank Williams Jr. singles chronology
"Old Habits"
(1980)
"Texas Women"
(1981)
"Dixie on My Mind"
(1981)

"Texas Women" is a song written and recorded by American musician Hank Williams Jr. It was released in February 1981 as the first single from the album Rowdy . The song was Williams Jr.'s third number one on the country chart, the first since "Eleven Roses" in 1972. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of ten weeks on the chart. [1]

Charts

Chart (1981)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks22

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 389.
  2. "Hank Williams, Jr. Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.