It Wouldn't Hurt to Have Wings

"It Wouldn't Hurt to Have Wings"
Single by Mark Chesnutt
from the album Wings
B-side	"I May Be a Fool"[1]
Released	December 18, 1995
Genre	Country
Length	3:13
Label	Decca
Songwriter(s)	Jerry Foster, Roger Lavoie, Johnny Morris
Producer(s)	Tony Brown
Mark Chesnutt singles chronology
"Trouble" (1995) "It Wouldn't Hurt to Have Wings" (1995) "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" (1996)

"It Wouldn't Hurt to Have Wings" is a song written by Jerry Foster, Roger Lavoie and Johnny Morris, and recorded by American country music artist Mark Chesnutt. It was released in December 1995 as the second single from the album Wings. The song reached number 7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and number 4 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.

Critical reception

Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, stating that Chesnutt "makes the trials of heartbreak sound survivable in this fiddle-laced tune that eloquently expresses, 'They say time can fly like a magical thing, but it sure wouldn't hurt to have wings.'^[2]

Chart performance

"It Wouldn't Hurt to Have Wings" debuted at number 60 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of December 30, 1995.

Chart (1995–1996)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[3]	4
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4]	7

Year-end charts

Chart (1996)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[5]	82
US Country Songs (Billboard)[6]	42

References

1. Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. pp. 92–93. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
2. Billboard, December 16, 1995
3. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 2948." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. April 22, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
4. "Mark Chesnutt Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
5. "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1996". RPM. December 16, 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
6. "Best of 1996: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1996. Retrieved July 20, 2013.