"It's Been So Long, Darling" is a 1945 song by Ernest Tubb. "It's Been So Long, Darling" was Ernest Tubb's seventh chart entry on the country charts and his second to make it to number one, where it stayed for four weeks and a total of thirteen weeks on the chart.
Covers 1952 – Don Cherry, single 1957 – Hank Snow on the album Country and Western Jamboree 1961 – George Jones on Sings Country and Western Hits 1963 – Bill Anderson on the album Still 1963 – Glen Campbell on Too Late to Worry – Too Blue to Cry 1966 – Loretta Lynn on I Like 'Em Country, which charted at #2 on the country charts 1980 – Merle Haggard on The Way I Am
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