Mind Your Own Business is a 1949 song written and originally performed by Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys. It was released as a July 1949 single by MGM, with There’ll Be No Teardrops Tonight on the B-side, and was recorded in early March 1949 at Castle Studio in Nashville. The tune blends country and blues with a proto-rockabilly edge, and the narrator playfully admonishes a local busybody for gossip, delivered in Williams’s dry, laconic style. The lyrics reflect Williams’s own turbulent marriage to Audrey Williams and the gossip it sparked. It followed the success pattern of Move It On Over and climbed to No. 6 on the country charts. In 1986, Hank Williams Jr. recorded a notable version with Reba McEntire, Tom Petty, Reverend Ike and Willie Nelson for the Montana Cafe album, which reached No. 1 on the country chart for two weeks. The song has been covered by numerous artists over the years, including Jimmy Dean, Ernest Tubb, Steve Goodman, Moe Bandy, Charley Pride and Taj Mahal.
