Drivin' Nails in My Coffin

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"Drivin' Nails in My Coffin"
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Single by Floyd Tillman
Released1946
GenreCountry
Length2:38
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Jerry Irby

"Drivin' Nails in My Coffin" is a country music song written by Jerry Irby. It is a breakup song, telling of a man who has been drinking booze, "driving nails in my coffin over you."

The song was originally recorded and released in 1945 by Jerry Irby. It became a hit in 1946 for both Floyd Tillman and Ernest Tubb. The Tillman record was released on the Columbia label (catalog no. 36998), peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's folk chart in August 1946, and was ranked as the No. 16 record in Billboard's year-end folk juke box chart.[1][2] Tubb's version was issued on the Decca label (catalog no. 73679) and peaked at No. 5 on the folk chart in December 1946.[3]

The song was later covered by many artists, including Beck and Willie Nelson (duet),[4] Hank Thompson, the Osborne Brothers, the Wilburn Brothers, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Asleep at the Wheel, Rhonda Vincent, Mike Auldridge, Boxcar Willie, Mac Wiseman, Johnny Bush, and Charlie Walker.

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  1. ^ "Year's Most-Played Folk Records on Nation's Juke Boxes". The Billboard. January 4, 1947. p. 55.
  2. ^ Joel Whitburn (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits. Billboard Books. p. 323. ISBN 0823076326.
  3. ^ Whitburn, p. 328.
  4. ^ "The Hi-Lo Country". AllMusic. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
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