"Live Until I Die" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker.

The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

"[4] During an interview with the San Angelo Standard-Times Walker said, "I wrote a song, ‘Live Until I Die,’ — it's about my life.

We literally lived off the land, raised our own livestock, we hunted — there were very few things that were store-bought on our table.

My goal was to pitch it to Randy Travis or Clint Black, because I wanted to get a cut, thinking that would lead to a record deal of my own.

[9] Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe listed "Live Until I Die" as the 127th best country single of the 1990s and wrote, "This is one of the few instances when the theme of celebrating a carefree life is set to a pretty melody and restrained production.

"[10] The music video, directed by Marc Ball, features Walker singing and playing his guitar with friends and traveling down a river on a boat.

Some members of the community watch the baseball game while others play horseshoes, Frisbee, and jump rope.

As it gets later in the day, the community builds a bonfire and Walker plays alongside it and the town claps and cheers.

The video was filmed in the community of Rome, TN (Smith County) on the bank of the Cumberland River.