Don't Tell Me What to Do

{{short description|1990 single by Pam Tillis}}

{{for|the Baby Animals song of the same name|Don't Tell Me What to Do (Baby Animals song)}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Don't Tell Me What to Do

| cover =

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| type = single

| artist = Pam Tillis

| album = Put Yourself in My Place

| B-side = Melancholy Child

| released = December 1, 1990

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| genre = Country

| length = 3:12

| label = Arista

| writer = Harlan Howard, Max D. Barnes

| producer = Paul Worley, Ed Seay

| prev_title = There Goes My Love

| prev_year = 1987

| next_title = One of Those Things

| next_year = 1991

}}

"Don't Tell Me What to Do" is a song written by Harlan Howard and Max D. Barnes, and recorded by the American country music artist Pam Tillis. Her breakthrough single, it was released in December 1990 as the first single from the album Put Yourself in My Place. The song reached number 5 on the 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=348}}

Marty Stuart recorded this song in 1988 under the title "I'll Love You Forever (If I Want To)" for his Let There Be Country album, although the album was not released until 1992.{{cite journal|year=1992|title=No title|journal=The Journal of Country Music|volume=15-16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3IJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22marty+stuart%22+%22i%27ll+love+you+forever%22}}