Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)

"Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)"
Single by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
from the album Plain Dirt Fashion
B-side"Video Tape"
ReleasedMay 21, 1984
RecordedDecember 1983
GenreCountry
Length3:20
LabelWarner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s)Rodney Crowell
Producer(s)Paul Worley
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band singles chronology
"Dance Little Jean"
(1983) 		"Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)"
(1984) 		"I Love Only You"
(1984)

"Long Hard Road (The Sharecropper's Dream)" is a song written by Rodney Crowell and recorded by American country music band Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. It was released in May 1984 as the lead single from the album, Plain Dirt Fashion. The song was the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's first (of three) No. 1 songs on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.[1]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 249.