“I’d Rather Go Blind” is a song written by Ellington Jordan and co-credited to Billy Foster. It was first recorded by Etta James in 1967, released in 1968, and has subsequently become regarded as a blues and soul classic.

Some critics have hailed “I’d Rather Go Blind” as of such emotional and poetic quality and have called it one of the great double-sided singles of the period. It is regarded double-sided because the song can either interpreted as a mother yearning for her lost child or a woman longing for her ex-lover.