Come from the Heart

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"Come from the Heart"
Song
"Come from the Heart"
Single by Kathy Mattea
from the album Willow in the Wind
B-side "True North"
Released April 1989
Genre Country
Length 3:11
Label Mercury Records
Writer(s) Richard Leigh, Susanna Clark
Producer(s) Allen Reynolds
Kathy Mattea singles chronology
"Life as We Knew It"
(1988)
"Come from the Heart"
(1989)
"Burnin' Old Memories"
(1989)

"Come from the Heart" is a country music song written by Richard Leigh and Susanna Clark and published in 1987. It is most known through the 1989 single by Kathy Mattea, released in conjunction with her album Willow in the Wind, though the song was first recorded and released on the 1987 Don Williams album Traces and also released in 1988 by Clark's husband on his album Old Friends.[2]

Hard Working Americans (with front man Todd Snider) recorded the song in 2014 as a duet with Rosanne Cash.

The song includes the lyrics:

You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ll never get hurt.
You’ve got to dance like nobody’s watchin’.

which The Yale Book of Quotations attributes as the source for similar aphorisms sometimes attributed to others[1] (e.g. Annie's Mailbox attributes a version of the lyric to a combination of William Watson Purkey and Satchel Paige[3]).

Mattea's single was her third number one on the country chart, spending 14 weeks on that chart including a single week at the top.[4]

Chart performance

Chart (1989) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[5] 1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[6] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1989) Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[7] 67
US Country Songs (Billboard)[8] 32

References

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  5. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 6383." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. July 10, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
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Preceded by Billboard Hot Country Singles
number-one single

July 1, 1989
Succeeded by
"Lovin' Only Me"
by Ricky Skaggs
Preceded by RPM Country Tracks
number-one single

July 10, 1989


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