You Can Sleep While I Drive

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"You Can Sleep While I Drive"
Single by Melissa Etheridge
from the album Brave and Crazy
B-side
  • "You Can Sleep While I Drive" (live)
  • "The Late September Dogs" (live)
Released1990
Genre Pop rock
Length3:14
Label Island
Songwriter(s) Melissa Etheridge
Producer(s)
Melissa Etheridge singles chronology
"The Angels"
(1989)
"You Can Sleep While I Drive"
(1990)
"Ain't It Heavy"
(1992)
"You Can Sleep While I Drive"
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Single by Trisha Yearwood
from the album Thinkin' About You
B-side "Two Days from Knowing"
ReleasedApril 29, 1995
Genre Country
Length3:15
Label MCA
Songwriter(s) Melissa Etheridge
Producer(s) Garth Fundis
Trisha Yearwood singles chronology
"Thinkin' About You"
(1995)
"You Can Sleep While I Drive"
(1995)
"I Wanna Go Too Far"
(1995)

"You Can Sleep While I Drive" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge for her second album Brave and Crazy released in 1989. Country music artist Trisha Yearwood covered the song and released it in April 1995 as the third single from her album Thinkin' About You . The song reached #23 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]

Chart performance

Chart (1995)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [2] 23
Canadian RPM Country Tracks26 [3]

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  2. "Trisha Yearwood Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
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