If I Could Make a Living ( song ) - wikipedia If I Could Make a Living ( song ) `` If I Could Make a LIving '' Single by Clay Walker from the album If I Could Make a Living B - side `` Down by the Riverside '' Released September 13, 1994 Format CD single Genre Country Length 2 : 14 Label Giant Songwriter ( s ) Alan Jackson Keith Stegall Roger Murrah Producer ( s ) James Stroud Clay Walker singles chronology `` Dreaming with My Eyes Open '' ( 1994 ) `` If I Could Make a LIving '' ( 1994 ) `` This Woman and This Man '' ( 1995 ) `` Dreaming with My Eyes Open '' ( 1994 ) `` If I Could Make a Living '' ( 1994 ) `` This Woman and This Man '' ( 1995 ) `` If I Could Make a Living '' is a song written by Alan Jackson, Keith Stegall and Roger Murrah, and recorded by American country music artist Clay Walker. It was released in September 1994 as the first single and title track from his album of the same name. It was Walker 's fifth chart entry, and became his fourth Number One hit on the Billboard country charts in November 1994. It also reached # 21 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 charts, and on the Canadian RPM country charts, it followed Jackson 's `` Livin ' on Love '' at Number One. Contents 1 Background 2 Content 3 Reception 4 Music video 5 Charts 5.1 Weekly charts 5.2 Year - end charts 6 References 7 External links Background In an interview with The Columbus Dispatch Walker revealed he was mildly dissatisfied with the single and stated, `` I did n't pick the musicians or anything for If I Could Make a Living. I 'm not saying there 's anything wrong with doing songs with pop melodies, but I find the more mature I get with my music, the more traditional I become. The older I get, the more I love that fiddle and pedal ( steel ) sound, that pure country sound. '' In the same interview, Walker also said `` If I Could Make a Living is really a fun - lovin ' song, but it 's a short song... a really short song, only two minutes and 14 seconds. Every night I do that song in concert I think, ' Man, that 's not enough. ' '' Content The song is an up - tempo in which the narrator says that, if he could make a living out of loving his partner, he would `` be a millionaire in a week or two '' and never have to leave her behind. Reception Larry Flick of Billboard gave the song a mixed review writing `` Walker has made a hell of a living selling this kind of cornbread - philosophical lyric. Co-written by Alan Jackson, this sounds an awful lot like one of his leftovers. And that ai n't necessarily a bad thing. '' Tara Seetharam of Country Universe listed `` If I Could Make a Living '' as the 374th best country single of the 1990s and wrote, `` This song is either ridiculously cheesy or irresistibly cheesy depending on your taste, but there 's no denying Walker sells the heck out of it with charm and enthusiasm. '' Music video The music video was directed by Michael Merriman. Charts Weekly charts Chart ( 1994 ) Peak position Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles ( Billboard ) 21 US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) Year - end charts Chart ( 1994 ) Position Canada Country Tracks ( RPM ) 11 Preceded by `` Shut Up and Kiss Me '' by Mary Chapin Carpenter Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number - one single November 26, 1994 Succeeded by `` The Big One '' by George Strait Preceded by `` Livin ' on Love '' by Alan Jackson RPM Top Country Tracks number - one single December 5, 1994 Succeeded by `` Somebody 's Leavin ' '' by Patricia Conroy References Jump up ^ Eichenberger, Bill The Columbus Dispatch WALKER 'S COUNTRY - MUSIC ROOTS GROW DEEP ( 3 August 1995 ) Jump up ^ Flick, Larry. `` Single reviews : Country. '' Billboard 106.38 ( 1994 ) : 67. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. Jump up ^ Seetharam, Tara Country Universe 400 Greatest Singles of the Nineties : # 375 - # 351 Juli 7, 2010 Jump up ^ `` Top RPM Country Tracks : Issue 2674. '' RPM. Library and Archives Canada. December 5, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2013. Jump up ^ `` Clay Walker Chart History ( Bubbling Under Hot 100 ) ''. Billboard. Jump up ^ `` Clay Walker Chart History ( Hot Country Songs ) ''. Billboard. Jump up ^ `` RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1994 ''. RPM. December 12, 1994. Retrieved August 4, 2013. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Clay Walker singles Clay Walker `` What 's It to You '' `` Live Until I Die '' `` Where Do I Fit in the Picture '' `` Dreaming with My Eyes Open '' If I Could Make a Living `` If I Could Make a Living '' `` This Woman and This Man '' `` My Heart Will Never Know '' Hypnotize the Moon `` Who Needs You Baby '' `` Hypnotize the Moon '' `` Only on Days That End in `` Y '' '' `` Bury the Shovel '' Rumor Has It `` Rumor Has It '' `` One, Two, I Love You '' `` Watch This '' `` Then What ? '' Greatest Hits `` Ordinary People '' `` You 're Beginning to Get to Me '' Live, Laugh, Love `` She 's Always Right '' `` Live, Laugh, Love '' `` The Chain of Love '' `` Once in a Lifetime Love '' Say No More `` Say No More '' `` If You Ever Feel Like Lovin ' Me Again '' A Few Questions `` A Few Questions '' `` I Ca n't Sleep '' `` Jesus Was a Country Boy '' Fall `` ' Fore She Was Mama '' `` Fall '' `` She Likes It in the Morning '' She Wo n't Be Lonely Long `` She Wo n't Be Lonely Long '' `` Where Do I Go from You '' `` Like We Never Said Goodbye '' `` Jesse James '' Alan Jackson Albums Singles Studio albums Here in the Real World Do n't Rock the Jukebox A Lot About Livin ' ( And a Little ' bout Love ) Who I Am Everything I Love High Mileage Under the Influence When Somebody Loves You Drive What I Do Like Red on a Rose Good Time Freight Train Thirty Miles West The Bluegrass Album Angels and Alcohol Compilation albums The Greatest Hits Collection Super Hits Greatest Hits Volume II The Very Best of Alan Jackson 16 Biggest Hits Songs of Love and Heartache 34 Number Ones Playlist : The Very Best of Alan Jackson Specialty albums Honky Tonk Christmas Let It Be Christmas Precious Memories Live at Texas Stadium Precious Memories Volume II Related articles Keith Stegall The Wrights `` Forever Together '' `` Better Class of Losers '' `` I 'd Surrender All '' `` If I Could Make a Living '' `` I Ca n't Do That Anymore '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=If_I_Could_Make_a_Living_(song)&oldid=794752258 '' Categories : 1994 singles 1994 songs Clay Walker songs Billboard Hot Country Songs number - one singles RPM Country Tracks number - one singles Songs written by Roger Murrah Songs written by Alan Jackson Songs written by Keith Stegall Song recordings produced by James Stroud Giant Records ( Warner ) singles Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Canadacountry Singlechart called without artist Singlechart called without song Singlechart usages for Billboardbubbling100 Singlechart usages for Billboardcountrysongs Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 9 August 2017, at 21 : 06. 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Question: who sings if i could make a living out of loving you
Answer: Clay Walker