diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 23f4da29..e09d18ec 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ A preview of the next release can be installed from
 - [#1487](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1487): `babashka.tasks/clojure` should be supported without arguments to start a REPL
 - [#1496](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1496): Add `set-agent-send-executor!` and `set-agent-send-off-executor!`
 - [#1489](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1489): Don't overwrite non-empty, non-jar files when writing uberscript/uberjar ([@bobisageek](https://github.com/bobisageek))
+- [#1506](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1506): `:exec-args` in task should override `:exec-args` on fn metadata
 
 ## 1.1.173 (2023-02-04)
 
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/cli.clj b/src/babashka/impl/cli.clj
index 753e99a7..7a152fc2 100644
--- a/src/babashka/impl/cli.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/cli.clj
@@ -21,14 +21,16 @@
       ns (:ns (meta the-var))
       ns-meta (meta ns)
       ct (babashka.tasks/current-task)
+      exec-args (babashka.cli/merge-opts (:exec-args (:org.babashka/cli ns-meta))
+                                         (:exec-args (:org.babashka/cli the-var-meta))
+                                         (:exec-args (:org.babashka/cli ct))
+                                         (:exec-args ct)
+                                         (:exec-args extra-opts))
       cli-opts (babashka.cli/merge-opts (:org.babashka/cli ns-meta)
                                         (:org.babashka/cli the-var-meta)
                                         (:org.babashka/cli ct)
                                         extra-opts)
-      task-exec-args (:exec-args ct)
-      cli-exec-args (:exec-args cli-opts)
-      exec-args {:exec-args (babashka.cli/merge-opts cli-exec-args task-exec-args)}
-      cli-opts (babashka.cli/merge-opts exec-args cli-opts)
+      cli-opts (assoc cli-opts :exec-args exec-args)
       opts (babashka.cli/parse-opts *command-line-args* cli-opts)]
 (the-var opts))"
            (random-uuid)
diff --git a/test-resources/babashka/exec_test.clj b/test-resources/babashka/exec_test.clj
index a18676bf..d68ab185 100644
--- a/test-resources/babashka/exec_test.clj
+++ b/test-resources/babashka/exec_test.clj
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
   {:org.babashka/cli {:coerce {:foo []}}})
 
 (defn exec-test
-  {:org.babashka/cli {:coerce {:bar :keyword}}}
+  {:org.babashka/cli
+   {:exec-args {:foo :foo}
+    :coerce {:bar :keyword}}}
   [m]
   (if (:meta m)
     (prn (meta m))
diff --git a/test/babashka/exec_test.clj b/test/babashka/exec_test.clj
index 6af27024..960de5fa 100644
--- a/test/babashka/exec_test.clj
+++ b/test/babashka/exec_test.clj
@@ -37,8 +37,13 @@
   (testing "task exec args"
     (u/with-config
       "{:deps {}
-      :tasks {foo {:exec-args {:foo :bar}
-                   :task (exec 'babashka.exec-test/exec-test)}}}"
+        :tasks {foo {:task (exec 'babashka.exec-test/exec-test)}}}"
+      (is (= {:foo :foo, :bar :yeah}
+             (edn/read-string (bb "-cp" "test-resources" "run" "foo" "--bar" "yeah")))))
+    (u/with-config
+      "{:deps {}
+        :tasks {foo {:exec-args {:foo :bar}
+                     :task (exec 'babashka.exec-test/exec-test)}}}"
       (is (= {:foo :bar, :bar :yeah}
              (edn/read-string (bb "-cp" "test-resources" "run" "foo" "--bar" "yeah"))))))
   (testing "meta"