Half a Man

Half a Man" waƙa ce da mawakin ƙasar Amurka Willie Nelson ya rubuta kuma ya rubuta waƙar. An fitar da waƙar a matsayin A-gefen waƙar don album ɗin sa na Liberty Records na biyu, Here's Willie Nelson. Duk da ya samu gaurayawar wasan iska don abubuwan da ke cikinta, waƙar ta zama nasaran tallace-tallace, inda ta kai lamba ashirin da biyar a kan Billboard's da Hot Cash lamba guda ashirin.

 Rubutu da rikodi 
An yi wahayi zuwa ga Nelson ya rubuta waƙar bayan ya tashi a tsakiyar dare don shan taba. Hannunshi yana zagaye da wata mata mai barci, ya kasa sakinta ba tare da ya tada ta ba. Nelson ya kai hannu ya ɗauki sigari da dayan hannunsa, ya yi tunanin yadda zai kasance da rabin jikinsa kawai.Emery 2001, p. 201Waƙar ta ba da labarin wani mutum wanda ya bayyana cewa idan ya rasa wani ɓangare na jikinsa, zai yi kama da "rabin mutum" wanda ya rasa ƙauna ya mayar da shiRolling Stone staff 2010

An yi rikodin "Rabin Mutum" a lokacin wani zama na Disamba 1962, wanda Tommy Allsup ya shirya.Thomson 2012, p. 67An yi rikodin a Bradley's Barn, Nelson ya sami goyon bayan fiddler Tommy Jackson da mawaƙa Jerry Kennedy,  Wayne Moss, da Fred Carter, Jr.Patoski 2008, p. 140Mawakan mata masu goyon bayan waƙar sun ƙara ƙarfafa waƙar waƙar.Mawakin ya kasance Earl Palmer.Scherman, Tony, Backbeat: The Earl Palmer Story, foreword by Wynton Marsalis, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1999 p. 176

 Saki da liyafar 
Single, haɗe tare da murfin Rex Griffin's "Haruffa Na Ƙarshe" an fito da shi don haɓaka fitowar sa na Ɗaukar 'Yanci na biyu, Ga Willie Nelson.A cikin bitar waƙar a watan Janairu 1963, Billboard ta kira waƙar kamar haka: "(a) ƙaƙƙarfan karatun ƙasa na waƙar da ba a saba gani ba wacce saurayin ke roƙon baƙon sa", yayin da yake kwatanta wannan waƙar tana ɗauke da "(mafi kyawun hoto)".Billboard staff 1963, p. 24

Duk da cewa tashoshin da suka yi la'akari da ita "marasa lafiya" sun shafi wasan kwaikwayo na waƙar,  sakin da aka cimma a lamba ta ishirin da biyar a watan Afrilu akan Waɗannan Ƙasashe Masu Zafi na Billboard.Scobey 1982, p. 112Yayin da ya ci gaba da kasancewa akan jadawalin Billboard na tsawon makonni biyar, Whitburn 2001, p. 244 ya shafe makonni goma sha biyu akan jadawalin ɓangarorin kasashe na Cashbox, kuma ya kai lamba ashirin.Albert & Hoffmann 1984, p. 247

 Sauran rikodin 
Merle Haggard ya rufe waƙar a cikin fitowar sa na 1982 Tafi Inda Kadai Tafi.[10]Nelson ya sake yin rikodin waƙar a cikin wani duet tare da George Jones don kundinsa na Duet na 1985 Half.

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