"What a Way to Go" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music artist Ray Kennedy

Ray Kennedy (country singer)

Ray Kennedy is an American country music artist. He has recorded three studio albums: one on Columbia Records and two on Atlantic Records...

. It was released in 1991 as the first single from his debut album, What a Way to Go. The song reached #10 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 in February 1991.

Radio edit

To make the single more suitable for radio airplay, the line "I got hogtied by a hooker in Ohio," from the song's chorus, was edited to replace the word "hooker" with "redhead."

Chart performance

Chart (1991)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	10
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	8