<P> "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight" is a song written by Rodney Crowell and Donivan Cowart . The song was initially covered by Emmylou Harris (in whose band Crowell had played during the late 1970s), who included it on her 1978 Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town album . </P> <P> The Oak Ridge Boys released the song in December 1979 as the third single from their album The Oak Ridge Boys Have Arrived . "Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight" was The Oak Ridge Boys' second number one country single, remaining at number one for a single week, and spending a total of eleven weeks on the chart . </P> <P> A story of unhappy love of a girl . </P> <P> The single was performed by the band on the 1981 The Dukes of Hazzard episode "State of the County". </P>

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