Let's Take the Long Way Around the World

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| name = Let's Take the Long Way Around the World

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| type = single

| artist = Ronnie Milsap

| album = Only One Love in My Life

| B-side = I'm Not Trying to Forget

| released = September 2, 1978

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| genre = Country

| length = 3:27

| label = RCA Nashville

| writer = Archie Jordan, Naomi Martin

| producer = Tom Collins, Ronnie Milsap

| prev_title = Only One Love in My Life

| prev_year = 1978

| next_title = Back on My Mind Again

| next_year = 1979

}}

"Let's Take the Long Way Around the World" is a song written by Archie Jordan and Naomi Martin, and recorded by American country music artist Ronnie Milsap. It was released in September 1978 as the second single from the album Only One Love in My Life. The song was Milsap's eleventh number one on the country charts. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent ten weeks on the 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=232}}