"Lynda" is a song written by Bill LaBounty and

Pat McLaughlin Pat McLaughlin is a singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee. He was raised in Waterloo, Iowa, but moved to San Francisco, California in the early 1970s. There McLaughlin began to write songs, playing alone at open mic nights and in the ...

, and recorded by American

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artist

Steve Wariner Steven Noel Wariner (born December 25, 1954) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Initially a backing musician for Dottie West, he also worked with Bob Luman and Chet Atkins before beginning a solo career in the late ...

. It was released in August 1987 as the third single from the album ''

It's a Crazy World It's a Crazy World is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Steve Wariner. It was released in 1987 by MCA Records. Three singles were released from it, and all three reached number-one. This album peaked at #30 on Top Country Al ...

''. The song was Wariner's seventh number one single. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of twenty-three weeks on the chart.

Content

"Lynda" is composed in the key of

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, mainly around the chord pattern D-Bm-G-A4. The song's success led to co-writer

signing to Capitol Records.

Charts

References

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