"Today My World Slipped Away" is the title of a song written by Mark Wright and Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin was an American country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers. An inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard, Gosdin was nicknamed "The Voice" by his...

, and recorded by American country music artist Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin was an American country music singer. He idolized The Louvin Brothers and The Blue Sky Boys as a young man and sang in a gospel quartet called The Gosdin Brothers. An inheritor of the soulful honky tonk style of Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard, Gosdin was nicknamed "The Voice" by his...

. Gosdin's version reached #10 on the Billboard

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Hot Country Singles

Hot Country Songs

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 chart in 1982. George Strait released a cover of the song in September 1997 as the third single from his album Carrying Your Love with Me

Carrying Your Love With Me

Carrying Your Love With Me is the title of an album released in 1997 by American country music singer George Strait. It was released by MCA Nashville Records and it produced four singles for Strait on the Billboard country charts...

. Strait's version reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in November 1997.

Vern Gosdin version

Kip Kirby, of Billboard

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magazine reviewed the song favorably, saying that Gosdin's "great, resonant voice squeezes every nuance of pain out of this story of separation and loss." He goes on to say that the female harmony is "reminiscent of Gosdin's early vocal pairing with Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

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George Strait version

Wade Jessen, of Billboard

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magazine, called the Strait version a "tear-stained reprise."

Vern Gosdin version

Chart (1982-1983)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	10

George Strait version

"Today My World Slipped Away" debuted at number 65 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of September 6, 1997.

Chart (1997)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	3
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	7