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If I Could Just Go Home is the first album by country artist Ed Bruce, released in 1968. The album contains newly recorded songs, with the exception of five tracks that had previously been featured on single releases between 1966 and 1967. The album reached No. 44 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ed Bruce, except where noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original release	Length
1.	"I Know Better"			2:38
2.	"Why Can't I Come Home?"			2:17
3.	"Walker's Woods"	Kay Arnold	"Lonesome Is Me" (B-side, 1966)	2:37
4.	"Ninety-seven More to Go"			2:13
5.	"If I Could Just Go Home"			3:40
6.	"Give More Than You Take"			2:29
7.	"By Route of New Orleans"	Sonny Moore		2:30
8.	"Shadows of Her Mind"	Kris Kristofferson	"Her Sweet Love and the Baby" (B-side, 1967)	2:44
9.	"Lonesome Is Me"		1966	2:20
10.	"The Price I Pay to Stay"			2:31
11.	"I'm Getting Better"		"Last Train to Clarksville" (B-side, 1967)	2:06
12.	"Her Sweet Love and the Baby"		1967	2:24
Total length:				30:24

Personnel

Ed Bruce - vocals
Louis Nunley, Bergen White, Marijohn Wilkin, Dorothy Ann Dillard, Glenn Baxter, Priscilla Hubbard, Mary Greene, William Wright - other vocals
Wayne Moss, Jerry Reed, Fred Carter Jr., Jack Eubanks - lead guitar
Ray Edenton, Jerry Shook - rhythm guitar
Pete Drake - steel guitar
Henry Strzelecki, Norbert Putnam - bass guitar
Bobby Dyson - electric bass
Jerry Carrigan - drums
Jerry Smith - piano
John Hartford - banjo
Charlie McCoy, Onie Wheeler - harmonica
Harold Cruthirds, Sadao Harada - cello
Marvin Chantry, Gary Vanosdale - viola
Brenton Banks, Kazuhide Isomura, Byron Williams - violin

References

Discography, retrieved November 7, 2013

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Albums	If I Could Just Go Home (1968) Ed Bruce (1976) Ed Bruce (1980) One to One (1981) I Write It Down (1982) You're Not Leavin' Here Tonight (1983) Homecoming (1984) Night Things (1986)
Singles	"Last Train to Clarksville" "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" "Texas (When I Die)" "The Man That Turned My Mama On" "Girls, Women and Ladies" "(When You Fall in Love) Everything's a Waltz" "You're the Best Break This Old Heart Ever Had" "Love's Found You and Me" "Ever, Never Lovin' You" "My First Taste of Texas" "After All" "You Turn Me On (Like a Radio)" "Nights"
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