"Living in the Promiseland" is a song written by

David Lynn Jones David Lynn Jones (born January 15, 1950) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1987 and 1994, Jones released four studio albums. He also charted four singles on ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Hot Country Songs, Hot Country ...

, and recorded by American country music artist Willie Nelson. It was released in February 1986 as the first single from the album '' The Promiseland''. The song was Nelson's twelfth number one single on the country chart as a solo artist, spending one week at number one and twenty weeks on the chart. In 1988, Jones recorded his own version of the song and included it as the

b-side The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes; these terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings. The A-side usually features a recording that its artist, producer, or record compan ...

to his single "High Ridin' Heroes", a duet with Waylon Jennings which reached number 14 on the same chart.Whitburn, p. 212 It was most recently recorded by Laura Black-Wines under the record label Subterra Records, and released in August 2017.

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