<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Please Forgive Me" (1968) </Td> <Td> "You Gave Me a Mountain" (1969) </Td> <Td> "Dammit Isn't God's Last Name" (1969) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Please Forgive Me" (1968) </Td> <Td> "You Gave Me a Mountain" (1969) </Td> <Td> "Dammit Isn't God's Last Name" (1969) </Td> </Tr> <P> "You Gave Me a Mountain" (sometimes credited as "Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain") is a song written by country singer - songwriter Marty Robbins during the 1960s . It has been recorded by many artists, including Robbins himself, but the highest - charting version of the song was by Frankie Laine in 1969 . This version was included on Laine's album of the same name . </P> <P> In Laine's autobiography That Lucky Old Son, he stated that "Marty Robbins once told me that he'd been trying to bring' You Gave Me a Mountain' to my attention for several years before he finally succeeded in November 1968 . I wish he'd been quicker about it . There were many times in the mid-60s when I longed for a song of its quality ." </P>

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