I Do n't Wanna Play House - Wikipedia I Do n't Wanna Play House `` I Do n't Wanna Play House '' Single by Tammy Wynette from the album Take Me to Your World / I Do n't Wanna Play House B - side `` Soakin ' Wet '' Released July 1967 Genre Country Length 2 : 38 Label Epic Songwriter ( s ) Billy Sherrill Glenn Sutton Producer ( s ) Billy Sherrill Tammy Wynette singles chronology `` Your Good Girl 's Gonna Go Bad '' ( 1967 ) `` I Do n't Wanna Play House '' ( 1967 ) `` Take Me to Your World '' ( 1967 ) `` Your Good Girl 's Gonna Go Bad '' ( 1967 ) `` I Do n't Wanna Play House '' ( 1967 ) `` Take Me to Your World '' ( 1967 ) `` I Do n't Wanna Play House '' Single by Connie Francis B - side `` Am I Blue '' Released August 1968 Genre Country Length 3 : 05 Label MGM Records Songwriter ( s ) Billy Sherrill Glenn Sutton Producer ( s ) Bobby Russel Buzz Cason Connie Francis singles chronology `` Somebody Else Is Taking My Place '' ( 1968 ) `` I Do n't Wanna Play House '' ( 1968 ) `` The Wedding Cake '' ( 1969 ) `` Somebody Else Is Taking My Place '' ( 1968 ) `` I Do n't Wanna Play House '' ( 1968 ) `` The Wedding Cake '' ( 1969 ) `` I Do n't Wanna Play House '' is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton. In 1967, the song was Tammy Wynette 's first number one country song as a solo artist. `` I Do n't Wanna Play House '' spent three weeks at the top spot and a total of eighteen weeks on the chart. The recording earned Wynette the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Contents 1 Content 2 Chart performance 3 Cover versions 4 References 5 External links Content In the song, the narrator, a young mother whose husband has left her, overhears her daughter describing to a neighbor boy their broken home, and informing him that she does n't want to play house since, after observing her parents ' troubles, she knows that it can not be fun. Chart performance Chart ( 1967 ) Peak position U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles Canadian RPM Country Tracks U.K. Singles Chart 37 Cover versions Connie Francis released a cover version of the song in August 1968. It peaked at # 40 on Billboard 's Adult Contemporary Charts. Skeeter Davis covered the song on her 1968 album Why So Lonely. Lynn Anderson ( then the wife of the song 's co-writer, Sutton ) covered the song in 1970 on her album Rose Garden. Loretta Lynn covered the song on her 1968 album, Fist City. Barbara Ray recorded a version that was a top 10 hit in Australia in 1973. It was ranked as the No. 2 song for that year in Australia. Mona Gustafsson recorded the song on her 2010 album Countrypärlor. References Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits : 1944 - 2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 399. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2002 ). Top Adult Contemporary : 1961 - 2001. Record Research. p. 97. Jump up ^ `` Countrypärlor '' ( in Swedish ). Svensk mediedatabas. 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2011. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Preceded by `` Turn the World Around '' by Eddy Arnold Billboard Hot Country Singles number - one single October 14 - October 28, 1967 Succeeded by `` You Mean the World to Me '' by David Houston Tammy Wynette Studio albums Your Good Girl 's Gonna Go Bad ( 1967 ) Take Me to Your World / I Do n't Wanna Play House ( 1968 ) D-I-V-O-R-C-E ( 1968 ) Stand by Your Man ( 1969 ) Inspiration ( 1969 ) The Ways to Love a Man ( 1970 ) Tammy 's Touch ( 1970 ) The First Lady ( 1970 ) We Sure Can Love Each Other ( 1971 ) Bedtime Story ( 1972 ) My Man ( 1972 ) Another Lonely Song ( 1974 ) Woman to Woman ( 1974 ) I Still Believe in Fairy Tales ( 1975 ) ' Til I Can Make It on My Own ( 1976 ) You and Me ( 1976 ) Higher Ground ( 1987 ) Next to You ( 1989 ) Heart Over Mind ( 1990 ) Without Walls ( 1994 ) Collaboration albums We Go Together Me and the First Lady We Love to Sing About Jesus Let 's Build a World Together We 're Gonna Hold On George & Tammy & Tina Golden Ring Together Again Honky Tonk Angels ( 1993 ) George and Tammy Super Hits ( 1995 ) One ( 1995 ) Singles `` I Do n't Wanna Play House '' `` Take Me to Your World '' `` D-I-V-O-R-C-E '' `` Stand by Your Man '' `` Singing My Song '' `` The Ways to Love a Man '' `` He Loves Me All the Way '' `` Run, Woman, Run '' `` We Sure Can Love Each Other '' `` Good Lovin ' ( Makes It Right ) '' `` Bedtime Story '' `` Reach Out Your Hand ( And Touch Somebody ) '' `` My Man ( Understands ) '' `` ' Til I Get It Right '' `` Kids Say the Darndest Things '' `` Another Lonely Song '' `` Woman to Woman '' `` ' Til I Can Make It on My Own '' `` You and Me '' `` Womanhood '' `` Crying in the Rain '' `` Sometimes When We Touch '' Collaboration singles `` My Elusive Dreams '' `` We 're Gonna Hold On '' `` Golden Ring '' `` Near You '' `` Two Story House '' `` Silver Threads and Golden Needles '' `` It Was n't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels '' Related articles Discography Discography with George Jones `` Justified & Ancient '' Connie Francis U.S. albums on MGM Records Who 's Sorry Now ? 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Question: who sings i don't want to play house
Answer: Tammy Wynette