If I Were a Carpenter

Name: If I Were a Carpenter
Duration: 3 min 48 s

~ Recording by Bob Seger

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.3	If I Were a Carpenter	3:48	Bob Seger	Smokin’ O.P.’s	Bob Seger	Album	US1972-08	Palladium Records ('60s/'70s US label founded by Punch Andrews)	P-1006
1.3	If I Were a Carpenter	3:48	Bob Seger	Smokin’ O.P.’s	Bob Seger	Album	-1992	EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint), Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)	7990772, CDPM (WM) 12
1.3	If I Were a Carpenter	3:48	Bob Seger	Smokin’ O.P.’s	Bob Seger	Album	US1993	Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)	CDP 0777 7 99077 2 4
1.3	If I Were a Carpenter	3:48	Bob Seger	Smokin’ O.P.’s	Bob Seger	Album	US2005-06-07	Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)	CDP 0946 3 11407 2 3
1.2	If I Were a Carpenter	3:49	Bob Seger	Early Seger, Volume 1	Bob Seger	Album + Compilation	XW2009-11-24
1.2	If I Were a Carpenter	3:49	Bob Seger	Early Seger, Vol. 1	Bob Seger	Album + Compilation	US2010-02-01	Hideout Records (2000-10s Bob Seger releases)
1.2	If I Were a Carpenter	3:49	Bob Seger	Early Seger, Vol. 1	Bob Seger	Album + Compilation	US2011-09-12	Capitol Records (imprint of Capitol Records, Inc.)

assistant engineer:	Greg Miller
engineer:	Jim Bruzzese
producer:	Punch (Ed Andrews, Bob Seger's Manager)
mixer:	Jim Cassily Mark Smith (Canadian engineer)
guitar:	Michael "Monk" Bruce ("Monk") Bob Seger
tambourine [tamborine]:	Jim Bruzzese
lead vocals:	Bob Seger

recorded at:	Pampa Studios in Warren, Michigan, United States
mixed at:	RCA Studios (Toronto, ON, Canada) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

recording of:	If I Were a Carpenter (cover)

lyricist and composer:	Tim Hardin

publisher:	Allen Stanton Productions Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships) Faithful Virtue Music

later translated versions:	Kdybych já byl kovářem Om jag vore arbetslös Si j'étais un charpentier (French version) Si yo fuera un carpintero Wenn ich nur ein Trucker wär (If I Were a Carpenter)