Lord, I Hope This Day is Good - Wikipedia Lord, I Hope This Day is Good `` Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good '' Single by Don Williams from the album Especially for You B - side `` Smooth Talkin ' Baby '' Released November 1981 Genre Country Length 4 : 06 Label MCA Songwriter ( s ) Dave Hanner Producer ( s ) Don Williams Garth Fundis Don Williams singles chronology `` If I Needed You '' ( 1981 ) `` Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good '' ( 1981 ) `` Listen to the Radio '' ( 1982 ) `` If I Needed You '' ( 1981 ) `` Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good '' ( 1981 ) `` Listen to the Radio '' ( 1982 ) `` Lord, I Hope This Day is Good '' is a song written by Dave Hanner, and recorded by American country music artist Don Williams. It was released in November 1981 as the third single from the album Especially for You. `` Lord, I Hope This Day is Good '' was Don Williams ' twelfth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for one week and spent a total of twenty weeks on the country music charts. Hanner also recorded the song as a member of Corbin / Hanner, who released it as the b - side to the 1982 single `` One Fine Morning. '' Cover versions Anne Murray recorded a version of the song on her 1999 inspirational album. Lee Ann Womack also recorded a version of the song on her 2000 album I Hope You Dance. Keb ' Mo ' covered the song of the Williams tribute album Gentle Giants : The Songs of Don Williams. Charts Chart ( 1981 -- 1982 ) Peak position US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) Canadian RPM Country Tracks References Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2008 ). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 463. ISBN 0 - 89820 - 177 - 2. Jump up ^ Whitburn, p. 104 Jump up ^ `` Don Williams Chart History ( Hot Country Songs ) ''. Billboard. Preceded by `` Only One You '' by T.G. Sheppard Billboard Hot Country Singles number - one single February 27, 1982 Succeeded by `` You 're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had '' by Ed Bruce RPM Country Tracks number - one single March 6, 1982 Succeeded by `` Do Me with Love '' by Janie Fricke Don Williams Studio albums Don Williams Vol. 3 Harmony Especially for You Cafe Carolina And So It Goes Singles `` I Would n't Want to Live If You Did n't Love Me '' `` The Ties That Bind '' `` You 're My Best Friend '' `` ( Turn Out the Light And ) Love Me Tonight '' `` ' Til the Rivers All Run Dry '' `` Say It Again '' `` I Recall a Gypsy Woman '' `` She Never Knew Me '' `` Some Broken Hearts Never Mend '' `` I 'm Just a Country Boy '' `` I 've Got a Winner in You '' `` Rake and Ramblin ' Man '' `` Tulsa Time '' `` Lay Down Beside Me '' `` It Must Be Love '' `` Love Me Over Again '' `` Good Ole Boys Like Me '' `` I Believe In You '' `` Falling Again '' `` Miracles '' `` If I Needed You '' ( with Emmylou Harris ) `` Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good '' `` Listen to the Radio '' `` Mistakes '' `` If Hollywood Do n't Need You ( Honey I Still Do ) '' `` Love Is on a Roll '' `` Nobody but You '' `` Stay Young '' `` That 's the Thing About Love '' `` Maggie 's Dream '' `` Walkin ' a Broken Heart '' `` It 's Time for Love '' `` We 've Got a Good Fire Goin ' ' '' `` Heartbeat in the Darkness '' `` Then It 's Love '' `` Señorita '' `` I 'll Never Be in Love Again '' `` I Would n't Be a Man '' `` Another Place, Another Time '' `` Desperately '' `` Old Coyote Town '' `` One Good Well '' `` I 've Been Loved by the Best '' `` Just as Long as I Have You '' `` Maybe That 's All It Takes '' `` Back in My Younger Days '' `` True Love '' `` Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy '' Related articles Discography `` Amanda '' This 1981 country song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord,_I_Hope_This_Day_Is_Good&oldid=782517724 '' Categories : 1981 singles Billboard Hot Country Songs number - one singles 1981 songs Don Williams songs Anne Murray songs Lee Ann Womack songs RPM Country Tracks number - one singles Song recordings produced by Garth Fundis MCA Records singles 1981 country song stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Billboardcountrysongs Singlechart called without song All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 27 May 2017, at 12 : 08. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote the song lord i hope this day is good
Answer: Dave Hanner