| I Don't Wanna Play House | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Tammy Wynette |
| Album: | Take Me to Your World / I Don't Wanna Play House |
| B-Side: | Soakin' Wet |
| Released: | July 1967 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 2:38 |
| Label: | Epic |
| Producer: | Billy Sherrill |
| Prev Title: | Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad |
| Prev Year: | 1967 |
| Next Title: | Take Me to Your World |
| Next Year: | 1967 |
| I Don't Wanna Play House | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Connie Francis |
| B-Side: | Am I Blue |
| Released: | August 1968 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 3:05 |
| Label: | MGM Records |
| Producer: | Bobby Russel Buzz Cason |
| Prev Title: | Somebody Else Is Taking My Place |
| Prev Year: | 1968 |
| Next Title: | The Wedding Cake |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
"I Don't Wanna Play House" is a song written by Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton. In 1967, the song was Tammy Wynette's first number one country song as a solo artist. "I Don't Wanna Play House" spent three weeks at the top spot and a total of eighteen weeks on the chart.[1] The recording earned Wynette the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. The song was released in the UK in 1976 and made the Top 40.
In the song, the narrator, a young mother whose husband has left her, overhears her daughter describing to a neighborhood boy their broken home, and informing him that she doesn't want to play house since, after observing her parents' troubles, she knows that it cannot be fun.
| Chart (1967) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 | |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 3 |
In 1973, South African singer Barbara Ray recorded a version that was a number-one hit in her home country[3] as well as a top 10 hit in Australia, reaching No. 3 later in the year.[4] Her version was South Africa's highest-selling single of 1973.[5]