"I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again" is a country song. It was adapted by A. P. Carter for The Carter Family who sang it as "Single Girl, Married Girl". It was printed in Anne Warner's Traditional American Folk Songs from the Anne & Frank Warner Collection (1984), Belden's Ballads and Songs Collected by the Missouri Folk-Lore Society (1955), Morris's Folksongs of Florida (1950), Scarborough's A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains (1937), Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1932, expanded from the first edition of 1917), John A. and Alan Lomax's Folk Song U.S.A. (1947), Alan Lomax's The Folk Songs of North America as "Single Girl" (1960) and Darling's The New American Songster: Traditional Ballads and Songs of North America (1992). It is in the Roud Folk Song Index as #436. It was recorded by Anne, Judy, & Zeke Canova (1928), Cousin Emmy (1947), Vernon Dalhart (1925), Sid Harkreader (1925), Kelly Harrell (1925) (1926), Roscoe Holcomb, Lulu Belle & Scotty (1938,1939), New Lost City Ramblers as "Single Girl" on Remembrance of Things to Come (1973), Frank Proffitt as "Single Girl" on Memorial Album (1968), Riley Puckett (1939), Pete Seeger as "When I Was Single" on Frontier Ballads (c. 1954) and Henry Whitter (1925).