"It's Been So Long, Darling" is a 1945 song by

Ernest Tubb Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), m ...

. "It's Been So Long, Darling" was Ernest Tubb's seventh chart entry on the country charts and his second to make it to number one, where it stayed for four weeks and a total of thirteen weeks on the chart.

Covers

*1952 – Don Cherry, single *1957 – Hank Snow on the album ''Country and Western Jamboree'' *1961 – Eddy Arnold on the album ''Let's Make Memories Tonight'' *1961 – George Jones on ''

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'' *1963 – Bill Anderson on the album ''Still'' *1963 – Glen Campbell on '' Too Late to Worry – Too Blue to Cry'' *1965 – George Hamilton IV on ''Mister Sincerity... A Tribute to Ernest Tubb'' *1966 – Loretta Lynn on ''

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'', which charted at #2 on the country charts *1969 – Carl Smith on ''Faded Love and Winter Roses'' *1980 – Merle Haggard on '' The Way I Am''

References

1945 songs Ernest Tubb songs Glen Campbell songs {{1940s-country-song-stub