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{{short description|1990 single by Pam Tillis}}
{{for|the [[Baby Animals]] song of the same name|Don't Tell Me What to Do (Baby Animals song)}}
{{Infobox song
| name       = Don't Tell Me What to Do
| cover      =
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Pam Tillis]]
| album      = [[Put Yourself in My Place (album)|Put Yourself in My Place]]
| B-side     = Melancholy Child
| released   = December 1, 1990
| recorded   =
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Country music|Country]]
| length     = 3:12
| label      = [[Arista Records|Arista]]
| writer     = [[Harlan Howard]], [[Max D. Barnes]]
| producer   = [[Paul Worley]], Ed Seay
| prev_title = There Goes My Love
| prev_year  = 1987
| next_title = [[One of Those Things]]
| next_year  = 1991
}}
"'''Don't Tell Me What to Do'''" is a song written by [[Harlan Howard]] and [[Max D. Barnes]], and recorded by the American [[country music]] artist [[Pam Tillis]]. Her breakthrough single, it was released in December 1990 as the first single from the album ''[[Put Yourself in My Place (album)|Put Yourself in My Place]]''. The song reached number 5 on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Hot Country Songs|Hot Country Singles & Tracks]] chart.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=348}}</ref>

[[Marty Stuart]] recorded this song in 1988 under the title "I'll Love You Forever (If I Want To)" for his ''[[Let There Be Country]]'' album, although the album was not released until 1992.<ref>{{cite journal|year=1992|title=No title|journal=The Journal of Country Music|volume=15-16|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3IJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22marty+stuart%22+%22i%27ll+love+you+forever%22}}</ref>

==Chart performance==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!align="left"|Chart (1990–1991)
!align="center"|Peak<br />position
|-
{{singlechart|Canadacountry|18|chartid=1484|publishdate=April 6, 1991|accessdate=August 16, 2013}}
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|5|artist=Pam Tillis}}
|}

===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!scope="col"|Chart (1991)
!scope="col"|Position
|-
| US [[Hot Country Songs|Country Songs]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1991/hot-country-songs| title=Best of 1991: Country Songs | work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]] | date=1991| accessdate=August 16, 2013}}</ref>
| align="center" | 65
|}

==References==
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{{Pam Tillis}}
{{Marty Stuart}}

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[[Category:1991 singles]]
[[Category:Marty Stuart songs]]
[[Category:Pam Tillis songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Harlan Howard]]
[[Category:Songs written by Max D. Barnes]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Paul Worley]]
[[Category:Arista Nashville singles]]
[[Category:1991 songs]]


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