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{{For|the song "Goodbye Marie" by the [[Gear Daddies]]|Billy's Live Bait}}
{{Infobox song
| name = Goodbye Marie
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = [[Bobby Goldsboro]]
| album = Bobby Goldsboro
| B-side = Love Has Made a Woman out of You
| released = 1980
| format =
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = [[Country music|Country]]
| length =
| label = [[Curb Records|Curb]]
| writer = [[Mel McDaniel]]<br />[[Dennis Linde]]
| producer =
| prev_title = Black Fool's Gold
| prev_year = 1979
| next_title = Alice Doesn't Love Here Anymore
| next_year = 1981
}}
"'''Goodbye Marie'''" is a country-pop song written by [[Mel McDaniel]] and [[Dennis Linde]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nsfhalloffame.com/l-o/dennis-linde.aspx |title=Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame |access-date=2009-06-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714203752/http://nsfhalloffame.com/l-o/dennis-linde.aspx |archive-date=2011-07-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>"Soon McDaniel was signed to a songwriting contract with Combine and he and another Combine writer Dennis Linde wrote Goodbye Marie which was recorded by ..." Hurse, Jack, [https://archive.today/20120716011248/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/633069392.html?dids=633069392:633069392&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb+26,+1984&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=COUNTRY&pqatl=google Country], [[Chicago Tribune]], February 26, 1984</ref> The song is about a man who has to leave his lover to head for "the lonesome highway" back to his home in [[Houston, Texas]]. It was first released by [[Johnny Rodriguez]] on his March 1979 album, ''Rodriguez Was Here''.

In September 1979, [[Kenny Rogers]] released the song on his album, ''[[Kenny (album)|Kenny]]''. Although the song was not issued as a single at the time, after Kenny Rogers signed to [[RCA Records]] his former label, [[Liberty Records]], issued a newly overdubbed version on a Rogers compilation album called ''[[Short Stories (Kenny Rogers album)|Short Stories]]'' and as a single in December 1985 that went to #47 in 1986.<ref>""Goodbye Marie," the new Liberty release of a cut recorded some years ago by Kenny Rogers, was cowritten by Mel McDaniel. biography of George Jones written ..." Hurst, Jack, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121103200935/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/1087395292.html?dids=1087395292:1087395292&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb+06,+1986&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Stage+fright+takes+on+new+meaning+when+singer+moves+to+TV&pqatl=google Stage fright takes on new meaning when singer moves to TV], [[Chicago Tribune]], February 6, 1986</ref><ref name="bb">[https://books.google.com/books?id=5CQEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Goodbye+Marie%22+&pg=PT66 "Hot Country Singles"], [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]], February 15, 1986</ref>

[[Bobby Goldsboro]] took a version of the song to #17 on the [[Hot Country Songs|Billboard Country chart]] in December 1980.<ref name="bbbook">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=eKicir5sZr4C&dq=%22goodbye+marie%22+goldsboro&pg=PA434 The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits]''. pg. 434.</ref><ref>"His other Top 20 country singles include "Muddy Mississippi Line" (1969), "Goodbye Marie" (1980), ...", ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bi_aAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Goodbye+Marie%22+song The comprehensive country music encyclopedia]'' by Country Music Magazine Editors, Times Books, 1994, Pg. 146</ref>

Mel McDaniel also released the song on his 1981 album, ''[[I'm Countryfied]]'', and as the B-side of his single "I Call It Love." Bluegrass group Merle Monroe covered the song for a hit in 2021 with Tim Raybon as lead singer (the group later renamed itself Tim Raybon Band).

==Chart performance==

===Bobby Goldsboro===
{|class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Chart (1980)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles
|align="center"|17<ref name="bbbook" />
|}

===Kenny Rogers===
{|class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Chart (1986)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
|align="left"|U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles
|align="center"|47<ref name="bb" />
|}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
{{Kenny Rogers}}
{{Bobby Goldsboro}}

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[[Category:1981 singles]]
[[Category:1986 singles]]
[[Category:Bobby Goldsboro songs]]
[[Category:Kenny Rogers songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Dennis Linde]]
[[Category:Songs written by Mel McDaniel]]
[[Category:1980 songs]]

Goodbye Marie - Revision history

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