Living in the Promiseland
{{Infobox song
| name = Living in the Promiseland
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Willie Nelson
| album = The Promiseland
| B-side = "Bach Minuet in G"{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|page=295|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}
| released = February 1986
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| genre = Country
| length = 3:18
| label = Columbia
| writer = David Lynn Jones
| producer = Willie Nelson
| prev_title = Me and Paul
| prev_year = 1985
| next_title = I'm Not Trying to Forget You
| next_year = 1986
}}
"Living in the Promiseland" is a song written by David Lynn Jones, and recorded by American country music artist Willie Nelson. It was released in February 1986 as the first single from the album The Promiseland. The song was Nelson's twelfth number one single on the country chart as a solo artist, spending one week at number one and twenty weeks on the chart.
In 1988, Jones recorded his own version of the song for his 1988 album Hard Times on Easy Street and included it as the B-side to his single "High Ridin' Heroes", a duet with Waylon Jennings, which reached number 14 on the same chart.Whitburn, p. 212
Chart performance
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!align="left"|Chart (1986) !align="center"|Peak |
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References
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{{Willie Nelson singles}}
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Category:Columbia Records singles
Category:American patriotic songs
Category:David Lynn Jones songs
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