I Wish I Was Crazy Again (original) (raw)

"I Wish I Was Crazy Again" is a song written by Bob McDill and introduced by the duet of Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings on Cash's 1978 album I Would Like to See You Again. Two Cash and Jennings' duets from that album, "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" and "I Wish I Was Crazy Again", were coupled together for a single release. "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" peaked at number 2 on U.S. Billboard's country chart for two weeks in July of that year, while "Wish I Was Crazy Again" peaked at number 22 a year and a half later, for two weeks of January 1980.