"Whiskey Lullaby" is a song composed by Bill Anderson and Jon Randall. It was first recorded by country music artist Brad Paisley as a duet with Alison Krauss on Paisley's album Mud on the Tires, and released on March 29, 2004, as that album's third single, and the eleventh chart single of Paisley's career. The song reached a peak of number three on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, and 41 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song won the 2005 Country Music Association Song of the Year Award. It is one of Paisley's four songs certified 2× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, the others being "She's Everything", "Then", and "Remind Me".

"Whiskey Lullaby" is a largely acoustic ballad in the key of B minor, accompanied mostly by acoustic guitar and Dobro. Its narrative centers on a couple that has an abruptly painful separation leading both to alcoholism and eventually drinking themselves to death: first the man, with a broken heart, and later the woman, feeling guilt for the man's death. While the video shows infidelity on the part of the woman, the lyrics don't state what the woman did to break the man's heart or imply infidelity. Paisley sings the first verse and chorus, which focus on the male character, while Krauss sings the second verse and chorus, which focus on the female character.

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