"Someday When Things Are Good' is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard. It was released in March 1984 as the third single from his album That's the Way Love Goes. The song was Haggard's thirty-first number one country single as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart.^[1] Haggard wrote the song with then-wife Leona Williams.

• Merle Haggard– vocals, guitar, fiddle

The Strangers:

• Roy Nichols – guitar
• Norm Hamlet – steel guitar
• Tiny Moore – fiddle, mandolin
• Mark Yeary – keyboards
• Dennis Hromek – bass
• Biff Adams – drums
• Jimmy Belken – fiddle
• Don Markham – horns