"Would You Lay with Me" is the title track from Tanya Tucker

Tanya Tucker

Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...

's third album

Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)

Would You Lay with Me is the third album by Tanya Tucker. It was also the third of four albums with producer Billy Sherrill and Columbia Records. The title song, "Would You Lay with Me ," was a #1 on the Billboard Country Singles charts and a #46 Pop hit...

 and was written by David Allan Coe

David Allan Coe

David Allan Coe is an American outlaw country music singer who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written and performed over 280 original songs throughout his career...

. It was released in December 1973 as a single, it topped the U.S. country chart on March 30, 1974, for one week to become Tucker's third number-one song on the chart. On the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, the song peaked at number 46. Only her 1975 number-one country hit, "Lizzie and the Rainman

Lizzie and the Rainman

""Lizzie and the Rainman" is as song written by Kenny O'Dell and Larry Henley which was a #1 C&W hit for Tanya Tucker in 1975.A narrative song as was typical for the first phase of Tucker's career, "Lizzie and the Rainman" relates how a...

", would perform better on the pop chart. Coe later recorded the song as the b-side to his 1975 single "You Never Even Called Me by My Name

You Never Even Called Me by My Name

"You Never Even Called Me by My Name" is the title of a song written by Steve Goodman and John Prine, produced by Ron Bledsoe, and recorded by country music singer David Allan Coe. It was the third single release of his career, included on his album Once Upon a Rhyme...

." In 1975, a version by veteran Australian singer Judy Stone

Judy Stone

Judy Stone is an Australian pop singer from Sydney, who came to national prominence in the early 1960s through her regular TV appearances on the Australian pop music show Brian Henderson's Bandstand and her many hit records...

 reached into the top 5 of the Australian pop charts.
Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

 recorded the song on his 1983 album, Take it to the limit.
In 2000, Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

 covered the song on his album, American III: Solitary Man

American III: Solitary Man

American III: Solitary Man is the third album in the American series by Johnny Cash released in 2000. The album was notable for being Cash's highest charting solo studio LP since his 1976 One Piece at a Time , an album that reached No. 2 Country based on the title cut...

.

Alf Robertson

Alf Robertson

Alf Robertson was a Swedish singer and composer who produced 50 albums and about 150 songs during his lifetime...

covered the song in 1978, in Swedish as "Jennifers frågor".

Chart performance

Chart (1974)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	46
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	7
Canadian RPM Top Singles	54