What Am I Gonna Do (With the Rest of My Life)

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| name = What Am I Gonna Do (With the Rest of My Life)

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| type = single

| artist = Merle Haggard

| album = That's the Way Love Goes

| B-side = I Think I'll Stay

| released = July 16, 1983

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| genre = Country

| length = 3:31

| label = Epic

| writer = Merle Haggard

| producer = Merle Haggard, Ray Baker

| prev_title = Pancho and Lefty

| prev_year = 1983

| next_title = That's the Way Love Goes

| next_year = 1983

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"What Am I Gonna Do (With the Rest of My Life)" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. It was released in July 1983 as the first single from the album That's the Way Love Goes. The song reached number 3 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=148}} In 2019, Montgomery Gentry released the song off the album Outskirts.

Chart performance

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!align="left"|Chart (1983)

!align="center"|Peak
position

{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|3|artist=Merle Haggard}}
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