Seven Year Ache is the third studio album by American country music singer Rosanne Cash, and her second for Columbia Records.

It was released on February 27, 1981, and reached number one on the Billboard country album chart.

As a tribute to Lennon, Cash asked the mastering engineer to scratch the message “Goodbye, John” into the run-out groove of the mother vinyl.

[citation needed] The CD was reissued in 2005 in an edition which was part of the American Milestone series from Sony BMG, which later identified the reissue as being among the 52 CD titles that were deemed to have been shipped with Extended Copy Protection (XCP) computer software.

Several security software vendors, including Microsoft, regard XCP as a trojan horse, spyware, or rootkit.