Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago

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"Twenty Years and Two Husbands"
Single by Lee Ann Womack
from the album There's More Where That Came From
ReleasedNovember 14, 2005
Genre Country
Length3:49
Label MCA Nashville
Songwriter(s) Lee Ann Womack, Dean Dillon, Dale Dodson
Producer(s) Greg Droman, Byron Gallimore
Lee Ann Womack singles chronology
"He Oughta Know That by Now"
(2005)
"Twenty Years and Two Husbands"
(2005)
"Finding My Way Back Home"
(2006)

"Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Lee Ann Womack. It was released in November 2005 as the third single from the album There's More Where That Came From . The song reached #32 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. [1] The song was written by Womack, Dean Dillon and Dale Dodson, and was the first single in Womack's career that she had a hand in writing, as well as the only track of such from the album.

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Chart (2005-2006)Peak
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US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 32

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References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2013). Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition. Record Research. p. 378.
  2. "Lee Ann Womack Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.