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( May 2016 ) `` I Always Get Lucky with You '' Single by George Jones from the album Shine On B - side `` I 'd Rather Have What We Had '' Released April 1983 Genre Country Length 3 : 18 Label Epic Songwriter ( s ) Merle Haggard Freddy Powers Gary Church Tex Whitson Producer ( s ) Billy Sherrill George Jones singles chronology `` Shine On ( Shine All Your Sweet Love on Me ) '' ( 1983 ) `` I Always Get Lucky with You '' ( 1983 ) `` Tennessee Whiskey '' ( 1983 ) `` Shine On ( Shine All Your Sweet Love on Me ) '' ( 1983 ) `` I Always Get Lucky with You '' ( 1983 ) `` Tennessee Whiskey '' ( 1983 ) `` I Always Get Lucky With You '' is a song written by Merle Haggard, Freddy Powers, Gary Church, and Tex Whitson and recorded by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in April 1983 as the second single from the album Shine On. `` I Always Get Lucky with You '' became George Jones ' ninth and final number one on the country chart as a solo artist. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent thirteen weeks on the country chart. Background Co-writer Merle Haggard recorded the song first on his 1981 hit LP Big City but did not release it as a single. According to the Stephen L. Betts Rolling Stone article `` George Jones Gets ' Lucky ' with Merle Haggard Song '' published online on February 13, 2015, Haggard 's manager Tex Whitson first pitched it to Jones ' producer Billy Sherrill because Jones and Haggard were on the outs at the time. `` I 'd get mad at him over the years because of his self - damage, but everything I said to him was out of love, '' Haggard wrote in an article for Rolling Stone after his friend died. `` Imagine you 're George Jones, and every night you 're expected to sing as good as you did on a song like ' She Thinks I Still Care. ' He was a shy country boy from East Texas walking around with that on his shoulders. He knew people expected him to be the greatest country singer that ever lived. He was the Babe Ruth of country music, and people expected a home run every time. '' Sherrill, who had produced Jones and Haggard on their first duet album together A Taste of Yesterday 's Wine the year before, still possessed his instincts for a great song and persuaded Jones to cut it. In the 1994 video retrospective Golden Hits, Jones recalled that he `` sung it around Nashville at some of the clubs to try and get used to it before I went into the studio and it came off great. It 's a great song. Merle Haggard wrote a good one there. '' Jones, who was about to hit rock bottom after spending most of the previous decade in a booze and drug - crazed wasteland, delivered a sterling performance, which became the last chart topper of his career, ironically bumping off `` Pancho and Lefty, '' Haggard 's hit duet with Willie Nelson. Haggard would record the song again in 2006 as part of the second Jones / Haggard release Kickin ' Out the Footlights... Again. A duet version featuring Jones and Shelby Lynne was made available on the 2009 Jones LP Burn Your Playhouse Down -- The Unreleased Duets. Chart performance Chart ( 1983 ) Peak position US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) Canadian RPM Country Tracks 6 References Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits : 1944 - 2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 182. Jump up ^ `` George Jones -- Chart history '' Billboard Hot Country Songs for George Jones. Preceded by `` Pancho and Lefty '' by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard Billboard Hot Country Singles number - one single July 30, 1983 Succeeded by `` Your Love 's on the Line '' by Earl Thomas Conley George Jones songs Singles `` No Money in This Deal '' `` Why Baby Why '' `` Achin ', Breakin ' Heart '' `` Seasons of My Heart '' `` Too Much Water '' `` Just One More '' `` Do n't Stop the Music '' `` Color of the Blues '' `` White Lightning '' `` Window Up Above '' `` Tender Years '' `` She Thinks I Still Care '' `` I 'll Share My World with You `` The Race Is On '' `` Love Bug '' `` Walk Through This World with Me '' `` If My Heart Had Windows '' `` Good Year for the Roses '' `` Loving You Could Never Be Better '' `` A Picture of Me ( Without You ) '' `` The Grand Tour '' `` The Door '' `` He Stopped Loving Her Today '' `` I 'm Not Ready Yet '' `` If Drinkin ' Do n't Kill Me ( Her Memory Will ) '' `` Still Doin ' Time '' `` Same Ole Me '' `` Shine On ( Shine All Your Sweet Love on Me ) '' `` I Always Get Lucky with You '' `` Tennessee Whiskey '' `` You 've Still Got a Place in My Heart '' `` She 's My Rock '' `` Hallelujah, I Love You So '' `` Who 's Gonna Fill Their Shoes '' `` The One I Loved Back Then ( The Corvette Song ) '' `` Somebody Wants Me Out of the Way '' `` Wine Colored Roses '' `` The Right Left Hand '' `` I Turn to You '' `` The Bird '' `` I 'm a One Woman Man '' `` I Do n't Need Your Rockin ' Chair '' `` Choices '' `` Funny How Time Slips Away '' Collaborative singles `` We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds '' ( w / Melba Montgomery ) `` Let 's Invite Them Over '' ( w / Melba Montgomery ) `` What 's in Our Heart '' ( w / Melba Montgomery ) `` Blue Moon of Kentucky '' ( w / Melba Montgomery ) `` We 're Gonna Hold On '' ( w / Tammy Wynette ) `` Golden Ring '' ( w / Tammy Wynette ) `` Near You '' ( w / Tammy Wynette ) `` Maybellene '' ( w / Johnny Paycheck ) `` Two Story House '' ( w / Tammy Wynette ) `` You Better Move On '' ( w / Johnny Paycheck ) `` Yesterday 's Wine '' ( w / Merle Haggard ) `` C.C. Waterback '' ( w / Merle Haggard ) Guest singles `` A Few Ole Country Boys '' ( w / Randy Travis ) `` You Do n't Seem to Miss Me '' ( w / Patty Loveless ) `` A Country Boy Can Survive ( Y2K version ) '' ( w / Chad Brock and Hank Williams, Jr. ) `` Murder on Music Row '' ( w / Dierks Bentley ) Related articles Albums discography Singles discography Discography with Tammy Wynette Awards This 1980s country song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 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Question: who wrote i always get lucky with you
Answer: Merle Haggard