"Baby I Lied" is a single by American country music artist Deborah Allen

Deborah Allen

Deborah Allen is an American country music singer. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, most notably the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied" which reached #4 on the country charts and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also...

. Released in 1983, it was the first single from the album Cheat the Night

Cheat the Night

Cheat The Night is an EP by country and pop musician Deborah Allen. It peaked at #67 on the Billboard Charts. It features her two best-known hits of the 80s, Baby I Lied and I've Been Wrong Before, along with her final top 10 Hit I Hurt For You.-Track listing:#"Baby I Lied" – 4:06#"Cheat the...

. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

Hot Country Singles & Tracks

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart. It was also her only hit on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, where it went to number 26.

In The Encyclopedia of Country Music, Mary A. Bufwack wrote that the song showed "Allen's country-pop style, marked by a wall of sound and soulful singing".

Shannon Brown released a cover of the song in 2001, taking it to number 40 on the country charts. Her version was to have been included on her BNA Records

BNA Records

BNA Records, formerly known as BNA Entertainment, is a label group that shares ties with Arista Nashville and RCA Nashville from parent company Sony Music Nashville, which itself is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, BNA features country music acts on its roster...

album Untangle My Heart, which was never released.

Deborah Allen

Chart (1983)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	4
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	26
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	10

Shannon Brown

Chart (2001)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	40