Cool to Be a Fool

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| name = Cool to Be a Fool

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| type = single

| artist = Joe Nichols

| album = Man with a Memory

| B-side = She Only Smokes When She Drinks

| released = September 8, 2003

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| recorded = 2002

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| genre = Country

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| label = Universal South

| writer = Joe Nichols, Steve Dean, Wil Nance

| producer = Brent Rowan

| prev_title = She Only Smokes When She Drinks

| prev_year = 2003

| next_title = If Nobody Believed in You

| next_year = 2004

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"Cool to Be a Fool" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Joe Nichols. It was released in September 2003 as the fourth and final single from his 2002 album Man with a Memory. The song reached number 18 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=249}} Nichols wrote this song with Steve Dean and Wil Nance.