"The Lord Knows I'm Drinking" is a song written by Bill Anderson, and recorded by American country music singer Cal Smith.
Smith, who had first gained fame performing with Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours in the 1960s, released a series of minor hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
It wasn't until 1972 when he hit the top 5 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart with "I've Found Someone of My Own" (a cover of The Free Movement pop hit).
A sharp denunciation of small-town religious self-righteousness,[1] "The Lord Knows I'm Drinking" was his first No.
[2] The record was also Smith's only single to cross over to the pop chart, where it peaked at number 64.