"Gonna Get a Life" is a song written by Jim Lauderdale and Frank Dycus, and recorded by American country music singer Mark Chesnutt.

The song became Chesnutt's sixth U.S. Country Music charts Number One in May of that year.

[2] Jim Lauderdale told Taste of Country that he was working at co-writer Frank Dycus' house that day and while taking a break he played a melody that he came up with.

[5] Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a "spicy mix of country and cajun.

It features Chesnutt performing the song in concert, in a treehouse, and at a cajun party surrounded by various people.