I Threw Away the Rose

"I Threw Away the Rose"
Single by Merle Haggard and The Strangers
from the album Branded Man
B-side "Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive"
Released February 27, 1967
Format 7"
Genre Country
Length 3:21
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Merle Haggard
Producer(s) Ken Nelson
Merle Haggard and The Strangers singles chronology
"The Fugitive"
(1966)		 "I Threw Away the Rose"
(1967)		 "Branded Man"
(1967)

"The Fugitive"
(1966)		 "I Threw Away the Rose"
(1967)		 "Branded Man"
(1967)

"I Threw Away the Rose" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in February 1967 as the first single from the album Branded Man. The song peaked at number two on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles.[1] In 1994 Lorrie Morgan recorded a version of the song which replaced the "I" in the lyrics with "you", changing it from a self-referential song to a song about someone else, for the Merle Haggard tribute album Mama's Hungry Eyes: A Tribute to Merle Haggard.

Chart performance

Chart (1967) Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] 2

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 146.
  2. ↑ "Merle Haggard Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.


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