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Set 'Em Up Joe

"Set 'Em Up Joe"
Single by Vern Gosdin
from the album Chiseled in Stone
B-side "There Ain't Nothing Wrong (Just Ain't Nothing Right)"
Released April 1988
Format 7"
Recorded 1987
Genre Country
Length 2:26
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Hank Cochran
Buddy Cannon
Dean Dillon
Vern Gosdin
Producer(s) Bob Montgomery
Vern Gosdin singles chronology
"Do You Believe Me Now"
(1987)
"Set 'Em Up Joe"
(1988)
"Chiseled in Stone"
(1988)
"Do You Believe Me Now"
(1987)
"Set 'Em Up Joe"
(1988)
"Chiseled in Stone"
(1988)

"Set 'Em Up Joe" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Vern Gosdin. It was released in April 1988 as the second single from the album Chiseled in Stone. "Set 'Em Up Joe" was Gosdin's second number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks within the Top 40. In 2010, this song was covered by Jamey Johnson on his album The Guitar Song. Gosdin wrote the song with Dean Dillon, Buddy Cannon and Hank Cochran.

The song was a tribute to country music legend Ernest Tubb.


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