<P> `` You Were on My Mind '' is a popular song written by Sylvia Fricker in 1962 in a bathtub in a suite at the Hotel Earle in Greenwich Village . She wrote it in the bathroom because `` it was the only place ... the cockroaches would not go '' . It was originally performed by Fricker and her then husband - to - be Ian Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia and they recorded it for their 1964 album , Northern Journey . It was published in sheet form by M. Witmark & Sons of New York City in 1965 . In 1965 the song was covered in an up - tempo version , with slightly altered lyrics and melody by the California pop quintet We Five . Their recording reached # 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1965 and topped the Billboard easy listening chart for five weeks . Billboard ranked the record as the No. 4 song of 1965 . The performance by We Five is noteworthy for the gradual buildup in intensity , starting off somewhat flowing and gentle , increasing in intensity in the third stanza and remaining so through the fourth stanza . The fifth and final stanza starts off gently and concludes very intensely , ending with a series of guitar chords . </P>
<P> `` You Were on My Mind '' is a popular song written by Sylvia Fricker in 1962 in a bathtub in a suite at the Hotel Earle in Greenwich Village . She wrote it in the bathroom because `` it was the only place ... the cockroaches would not go '' . It was originally performed by Fricker and her then husband - to - be Ian Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia and they recorded it for their 1964 album , Northern Journey . It was published in sheet form by M. Witmark & Sons of New York City in 1965 . In 1965 the song was covered in an up - tempo version , with slightly altered lyrics and melody by the California pop quintet We Five . Their recording reached # 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1965 and topped the Billboard easy listening chart for five weeks . Billboard ranked the record as the No. 4 song of 1965 . The performance by We Five is noteworthy for the gradual buildup in intensity , starting off somewhat flowing and gentle , increasing in intensity in the third stanza and remaining so through the fourth stanza . The fifth and final stanza starts off gently and concludes very intensely , ending with a series of guitar chords . </P>
who sings when i woke up this morning you were on my mind
who sings when i woke up this morning you were on my mind
Ian & Sylvia
Ian & Sylvia