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{{Infobox song
| name       = I'll Leave This World Loving You
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Ricky Van Shelton]]
| album      = [[Loving Proof (album)|Loving Proof]]
| B-side     = Sometimes I Cry Myself to Sleep
| released   = August 14, 1988<ref name="Hits">{{cite AV media notes |title=Greatest Hits Plus |others=Ricky Van Shelton |year=1992 |type=CD |publisher=Columbia Records |id=52753}}</ref>
| recorded   = January 19, 1988<ref name="Hits" />
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Country music|Country]]
| length     = 3:06
| label      = [[Sony Music Nashville|Columbia Nashville]]
| writer     = [[Wayne Kemp]] and [[Mack Vickery]]
| producer   = [[Steve Buckingham (record producer)|Steve Buckingham]]
| prev_title = [[Don't We All Have the Right]]
| prev_year  = 1988
| next_title = [[From a Jack to a King]]
| next_year  = 1988
}}
'''"I'll Leave This World Loving You"''' is a [[country music]] song written by [[Wayne Kemp]] and [[Mack Vickery]]. Kemp released it in 1980 on the [[Mercury Records]] label. He had previously recorded the song in 1974 for [[MCA Records]], and used this version as the [[B-side]] to his 1974 single "Harlan County".<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|date=2008|page=221|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref>
The song was covered by [[Ronnie Milsap]] in 1975, on the album ''[[A Legend in My Time]]''.
The song was covered by [[Mel Street]] on his 1977 self-titled album.
The song was later covered by [[Ricky Van Shelton]] in 1988. It was released in August 1988 as the lead-off single from his album ''[[Loving Proof (album)|Loving Proof]]''.  It was the fourth consecutive Number One single of Shelton's career, as well as his first multi-week Number One.
==Chart positions==
===Wayne Kemp===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Chart (1980)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|47|artist=Wayne Kemp}}
|}
===Ricky Van Shelton===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Chart (1988)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=Ricky Van Shelton}}
|-
|align="left"|Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rpmimages.3345.ca/pdfs/Volume+49-No.+6-November+26%2C+1988.pdf|title=RPM 100 Country Singles|work=RPM|date=November 26, 1988}}</ref>
|align="center"|1
|}
===Year-end charts===
{|class="wikitable"
!Chart (1988)
!Position
|-
|US Hot Country Songs (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1988/hot-country-songs|title=Hot Country Songs – Year-End 1988|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=July 4, 2021}}</ref>
|align="center"|60
|}
==References==
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[[Category:1980 singles]]
[[Category:1988 singles]]
[[Category:Ronnie Milsap songs]]
[[Category:Ricky Van Shelton songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Wayne Kemp]]
[[Category:Songs written by Mack Vickery]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Tom Collins (record producer)]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Steve Buckingham (record producer)]]
[[Category:Columbia Nashville Records singles]]
[[Category:1974 songs]]