"Cotton Jenny" is a single by Canadian country pop artist Anne Murray

Anne Murray

Morna Anne Murray CC, ONS is a Canadian singer in pop, country and adult contemporary styles whose albums have sold over 54 million copies....

. The song was written by Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s...

, who originally recorded it on his 1971 album Summer Side of Life

Summer Side of Life

Summer Side of Life is Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's 7th original album, released in 1971 on the Reprise Records Label. The album continued the sound Lightfoot established on Sit Down Young Stranger and that would serve him well throughout the first half of the 1970's.The album reached #38 on...

. Murray's version was released in January 1972 as was the first single from her album Talk It Over in the Morning

Talk It Over in the Morning

Talk It Over in the Morning is the fifth studio album by Anne Murray issued in 1971 on Capitol Records. The album peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Country Albums chart.-Track listing:#"Talk It Over in the Morning"...

. It peaked at number 1 on the RPM

RPM (magazine)

RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

Country Tracks chart. It also reached number 11 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

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 in the United States.

Chart performance

Chart (1972)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Top Singles	1
Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	11
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	71
U.S. Billboard Easy Listening	32