I May Never Get To Heaven Some songs have been recorded several times before finding the right singer and the right recording to make it a hit, and according to Bill Anderson, Conway Twitty’s 1979 number one, “I May Never Get To Heaven,” was such a song. Bill commented, “I wrote the lyrics to that song and Buddy Killen wrote the melody. That song goes back real early in my career. I was living in Nashville, but I really hadn’t moved here to stay. I had to leave and go back home to Georgia and finish some college courses that I thought I had finished but I found out that I hadn’t. And I’d been dating this girl and we’d broken up and I was just sittin’ around my little one room apartment just thinking about our relationship. That lyric was pretty much right from the heart. You know, “I may never get to heaven but I almost did one time. Or I didn’t miss it much….or whatever.” Don Gibson cut the first record on that song. A lot of people don’t realize that by the time that song was a hit for Conway in 1979, it was 20 years old and it had probably been cut a dozen times. B. J. Thomas had cut it, Aretha Franklin cut it, Don Gibson, but it took that great record by Conway to finally get the song over the top.” “I May Never Get To Heaven” made the country music charts for Conway July 14th, 1979 and made it to the top spot. It was his 50th charted country song and was on the charts for 15 weeks.