"Last Cheater's Waltz" is the title track from

Sonny Throckmorton James Fron "Sonny" Throckmorton (born April 2, 1941) is an American country music songwriter. He has had more than 1,000 of his songs recorded by various country singers. He has also had minor success as a recording artist, having released two ...

's 1978 album '' Last Cheater's Waltz''. Throckmorton released the song as a double-A-side with " Smooth Sailin'" and charted at number 47 on the

Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data along with digital sales and streaming. ...

charts that year. In late 1979,

T. G. Sheppard William Neal Browder (born July 20, 1944) is an American country music singer, known professionally as T. G. Sheppard. He had 14 number-one hits on the US country charts between 1974 and 1986, including eight consecutive number ones between 19 ...

covered both songs. He released "Last Cheater's Waltz" as a single in 1979, reaching number one on Hot Country Songs.Whitburn, pp. 379-380.

Emmylou Harris Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, bandleader, and activist. She is considered one of the leading music artists behind the country rock genre in the 1970s and the Americana (music), Americana genre ...

covered the song on her 1981 album Cimmaron

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