Forty Days and Forty Nights

"Forty Days and Forty Nights"
Single by Muddy Waters
B-side"All Aboard"
Released1956 (1956)
RecordedChicago, January 1956
GenreBlues
Length2:51
LabelChess
Songwriter(s)Bernard Roth
Producer(s)Leonard Chess, Phil Chess
Muddy Waters singles chronology
"Trouble No More"
(1955)
"Forty Days and Forty Nights"
(1956)
"Don't Go No Farther"
(1956)

"Forty Days and Forty Nights" is a blues song recorded by Muddy Waters in 1956. Called "a big, bold record", it spent six weeks in the Billboard R&B chart, where it reached number seven. "Forty Days and Forty Nights" has been interpreted and recorded by a variety of artists.