"Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" is a song written by Harlan Howard, sung by Charlie Walker, and released on the Columbia label.

Harlan Howard, while living in a frame house in Gardena, California, played the song for another songwriter, Lance Guynes.

Guynes offered to send the song to Nashville, and shortly thereafter, Howard received a call from Ray Price saying he loved the song.

There was a fight between Price, Ernest Tubb, and Charlie Walker over who would get to record the song.

They ultimately agreed to give it to Walker, "because he needed a hit.