A Picture of Me (Without You) (song)

"A Picture of Me (Without You)" is a country music song written by Norro Wilson and George Richey.

According to Rich Kienzle's liner notes for the 1994 Sony retrospective The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country, the song was written specifically for Jones with co-writer Norro Wilson singing the song for George "imitating the Jones style to show how he wanted it sung.

It was originally recorded by Jones, whose version peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1972.

In his 1995 autobiography I Lived to Tell It All, Jones quoted lines from the song to describe his own sadness at the passing of his brother-in-law W.T.

[1] In the song, the narrator tells his lover to imagine incomplete things, like "a world where no music is playing, a church where nobody's praying, a sky with no blue, and by seeing this, she can see his picture without her by his side.