Haggard cut his version alongside producer Ken Nelson at Capitol Studios.
Haggard had recently signed with the Capitol label, and later recorded his debut album in the same session as this single.
Also included on the album was his first top ten hit,"(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers.
He had first recorded a version that appeared on his 1965 debut studio album The Songs of Wynn Stewart.
Stewart re-recorded the song on November 4, 1975, at the RCA Victor Studio, located in Nashville, Tennessee.