Rockin' Years
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| "Rockin' Years" | ||||
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| Single by Dolly Parton and Ricky Van Shelton | ||||
| from the album Eagle When She Flies and Backroads | ||||
| B-side | "What a Heartache"[1] | |||
| Released | February 4, 1991[2] | |||
| Recorded | November 8, 1990[2] | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:25 | |||
| Label | Columbia/TriStar | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Floyd Parton | |||
| Producer(s) | Steve Buckingham, Gary Smith, Dolly Parton[2] | |||
| Dolly Parton singles chronology | ||||
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| Ricky Van Shelton singles chronology | ||||
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"Rockin' Years" is a song written by Floyd Parton, and recorded as a duet by American country music artists Dolly Parton and Ricky Van Shelton. it was released in February 1991 as the lead-off single to both Parton's album Eagle When She Flies and Shelton's album Backroads, and on both albums, it is track #2 on each of the albums track lists. The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart, giving Parton her twenty-fourth number one and Shelton his eighth. The song would be Parton's last chart-topper until 2006.
The song is a mid-tempo country waltz in which two narrators — a male and a female — promise to love each other until their "rockin' years"; i.e., when they are old and sitting in rocking chairs together.
