Rainy Day Woman

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{{Infobox song

| name = Rainy Day Woman

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Waylon Jennings

| album = The Ramblin' Man

| B-side = Let's All Help the Cowboys (Sing the Blues)

| released = December 21, 1974

| format =

| recorded =

| studio = Glaser Sound (Nashville, Tennessee)

| venue =

| genre = Country

| length = 2:33

| label = RCA Victor

| writer = Waylon Jennings

| producer = Waylon Jennings, Tompall Glaser

| prev_title = I'm a Ramblin' Man

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Dreaming My Dreams with You

| next_year = 1975

}}

"Rainy Day Woman" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. It was released in December 1974 as the second single from the album The Ramblin' Man. The song reached number 2 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 |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=174}}

20 years later, the song was covered by Mark Chesnutt as a duet with Jennings on Chesnutt's 1994 album What a Way to Live.

Charts

=Weekly charts=

class="wikitable sortable"

!align="left"|Chart (1974–1975)

!align="center"|Peak
position

{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|2|artist=Waylon Jennings}}
align="left"|Canadian RPM Country Tracks

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=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable"

!Chart (1975)

!Position

US Hot Country Songs (Billboard){{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/70s/1975/Billboard-1975-12-27-II-Talent-in-Action.pdf|title=Talent in Action|magazine=Billboard|volume=87|issue=52|page=28|date=December 27, 1975|accessdate=August 6, 2021}}

|align="center"|43

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