"You Ask Me To" is a song written by Billy Joe Shaver and Waylon Jennings.
This record spent fifteen weeks on the Billboard country singles charts, reaching a peak of number eight.
[1] Shaver recorded his own version in 1977 titled "You Asked Me To" in the past tense for the album Gypsy Boy, with special guest Willie Nelson on guitar and vocals.
[2] "You Ask Me To" also appeared as the closing song on Elvis Presley's 1975 album Promised Land.
It also appeared with an alternate arrangement in Elvis Presley's posthumous 1981 album Guitar Man, which reached the Top 50 in the US.