"Where Corn Don't Grow" is a song written by Roger Murrah

Roger Murrah

Roger Murrah is a songwriter and music publisher who has written hits for artists including Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, Al Jarreau, and Alabama....

 and Mark Alan Springer. It was first recorded by Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

 on his 1990 album The Eagle

The Eagle (album)

The Eagle is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on Epic Records in 1990. It was the first of his two solo albums on the label, which he joined after a two-year stay at MCA. The selections themselves are a mixture of fast-paced songs and slower ballads. "Wrong", a humorous track about a...

, peaking at #67 on the country singles charts that year. Six years later, Travis Tritt

Travis Tritt

James Travis Tritt is an American country music singer from Marietta, Georgia. He signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1989, releasing seven studio albums and a greatest hits package for the label between then and 1999. In the 2000s, he released two albums on Columbia Records and one for the defunct...

 covered it on his 1996 album The Restless Kind

The Restless Kind

The Restless Kind is the American artist Travis Tritt's fifth album, released on Warner Bros. Records in 1996. The tracks "More Than You'll Ever Know", "Helping Me Get over You" , "She's Going Home with Me", and "Where Corn Don't Grow" were released as singles, all peaking in the Top 40 on the...

. Also released as a single, his rendition was a Top Ten country hit in 1997, peaking at #6 on the same chart.

Music video

The music video for Tritt's version was directed by Michael Merriman. The video features a boy who leaves his father's farm in search of a life in the big city. The boy eventually gets his guitar and wallet, and everything but his father's gold watch stolen. He robs food from a store because he has no money, but he is caught and arrested. The boy turns out to be Tritt when Tritt returns to his father's home with the gold watch.

Waylon Jennings

Chart (1990)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	67
Canadian RPM Country Singles Chart	42

Travis Tritt

"Where Corn Don't Grow" debuted at #73 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of November 23, 1996.

Chart (1996-1997)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	6
Canadian RPM Country Singles Chart	8