"If It Don't Come Easy" is a song written by Dave Gibson and Craig Karp, and recorded by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

artist

Tanya Tucker Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature int ...

. It was released in February 1988 as the third single from the album ''

Love Me Like You Used To ''Love Me Like You Used To'' is the sixteenth studio album by American country music artist Tanya Tucker, released in 1987. Continuing the success of her preceding comeback album '' Girls Like Me'', the album produced three Billboard Top Ten Co ...

''. The song was Tucker's ninth number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent fourteen weeks on the country chart.

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1988 singles 1987 songs Tanya Tucker songs Capitol Records Nashville singles Song recordings produced by Jerry Crutchfield Songs written by Dave Gibson (American songwriter) {{1987-country-song-stub