You Take Me for Granted

"You Take Me for Granted"
Single by Merle Haggard
from the album Going Where the Lonely Go
B-side"I Won't Give Up My Train"
ReleasedMarch 12, 1983
GenreCountry
Length2:40
LabelEpic
Songwriter(s)Leona Williams
Producer(s)Merle Haggard
Lewis Talley
Merle Haggard singles chronology
"Going Where the Lonely Go"
(1982)
"You Take Me for Granted"
(1983)
"Pancho and Lefty"
(1983)

"You Take Me for Granted" is a song written by Leona Williams, and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. It was released in March 1983 as the second single from the album Going Where the Lonely Go. The song was Haggard's twenty-ninth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart.[1]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 148.