. . . . "Goodbye Marie"@en . . "\"Goodbye Marie\" is a country-pop song written by Mel McDaniel and Dennis Linde. The song is about a man who has to leave his lover to head for \"the lonesome highway\" back to his home in Houston, Texas. Bobby Goldsboro took a version of the song to #17 on the Billboard Country chart in 1981. Kenny Rogers had previously covered the song on his 1979 #1 album Kenny."@en . . .