If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)

Infobox Single
Name = If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)


Artist = Rodney Atkins
from Album = If You're Going Through Hell
Released = Start date|2006|1|3
Format = CD single, Digital download
Genre = Country
Length = 3:33
Label = Curb
Writer = Sam Tate, Annie Tate, Dave Berg
Producer = Ted Hewitt
Last single = "Monkey in the Middle"
(2004)
This single = "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)"
(2006)
Next single = "Watching You"
(2006)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = If You're Going Through Hell
Type = Studio
prev_track = "Angel's Hands"
prev_no = 9
this_track = "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)"
track_no = 10
next_track =
next_no =

"If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" is a single, released by country music artist Rodney Atkins, as the lead-off single to his 2006 album "If You're Going Through Hell". The song became a Number One hit on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Songs chart, spending four weeks at the top, in addition to reaching the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. "If You're Going Through Hell" was named the No. 1 song of 2006 on the Billboard magazine year-end countdown chart.

The title was inspired by two quotes: one from Winston Churchill ("If you're going through Hell, keep going.") and the other, an old Irish toast ("May you be in Heaven five minutes before the devil knows you're dead"). [cite journal |last=Horner |first=Alanna |year=2006 |title=Story Behind the Song: "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" |journal=Country Weekly |volume=13 |issue=19 |pages=64 |accessdate=2007-08-04 ]

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