Someday When Things Are Good

{{Infobox song

| name = Someday When Things Are Good

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Merle Haggard

| album = That's the Way Love Goes

| B-side = If You Hated Me

| released = March 24, 1984

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| genre = Country

| length = 3:36

| label = Epic

| writer = Merle Haggard
Leona Williams

| producer = Merle Haggard, Ray Baker

| prev_title = That's the Way Love Goes

| prev_year = 1983

| next_title = Let's Chase Each Other Around the Room

| next_year = 1984

}}

"Someday When Things Are Good' is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard. It was released in March 1984 as the third single from his album That's the Way Love Goes. The song was Haggard's thirty-first number-one country single as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country 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=148}}

Haggard wrote the song with his then-wife Leona Williams; it became the title track of her own 1984 album Someday When Things Are Good.{{cite web |title=Leona Williams – Someday When Things Are Good |url=https://www.discogs.com/master/897780-Leona-Williams-Someday-When-Things-Are-Good |website=discogs.com |publisher=Discogs |access-date=13 March 2025}}

Personnel

The Strangers:

  • Roy Nichols – guitar
  • Norm Hamlet – steel guitar
  • Tiny Moore – fiddle, mandolin
  • Mark Yeary – keyboards
  • Dennis Hromek – bass
  • Biff Adams – drums
  • Jimmy Belken – fiddle
  • Don Markham – horns

Charts

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=Weekly charts=

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!align="left"|Chart (1984)

!align="center"|Peak
position

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align="left"|Canadian RPM Country Tracks

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=Year-end charts=

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!Chart (1984)

!Position

US Hot Country Songs (Billboard){{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1984/hot-country-songs|title=Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1984|work=Billboard|accessdate=June 15, 2021}}

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References