"Golden Ring" is a song written by Bobby Braddock and Rafe Van Hoy, and recorded by American country music singers George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

In the third verse, the couple has been fighting and, with the marriage clearly in trouble, the man accuses his wife of planning to leave town.

Shortly afterward, the woman retorts by telling her husband that she does not love him anymore, throws the ring down and leaves.

According to Rich Kienzle's essay for the 1994 Sony compilation The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country, the recording features Pete Wade and Jerry Kennedy on acoustic guitars and drummer Jerry Carrigan playing a snare drum with his hands, as instructed by producer Billy Sherrill.

Like many of the duets that the two recorded when they were still husband and wife, "Golden Ring" resonated with an authentic sense of romantic tragedy and irresolution that was hauntingly similar to the real-life timbre of their troubled, on-again-off-again love affair.

[3] Jones, who at the time made no secret of the fact that he still carried a torch for his ex-wife, later addressed the issue of re-teaming with Wynette in his 1996 memoir by insisting, "That wasn't my idea.