| "Come from the Heart" | |
| Written by | Richard Leigh and Susanna Clark |
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| Published | 1987[1] |
| Language | English |
| Form | Country music |
| Original artist | Don Williams |
| Recorded by | Guy Clark (1988), Kathy Mattea (1989) |
| "Come from the Heart" | ||||
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| Single by Kathy Mattea | ||||
| from the album Willow in the Wind | ||||
| Released | 1989 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Mercury | |||
| Writer(s) | Richard Leigh, Susanna Clark | |||
| Producer | Allen Reynolds | |||
| Kathy Mattea singles chronology | ||||
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"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]
The song includes the lyrics:
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 (1989) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country singles and tracks | 1 |
| Canadian RPM country tracks | 1 |
| Preceded by "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" by Rosanne Cash |
Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single July 1, 1989 |
Succeeded by "Lovin' Only Me" by Ricky Skaggs |
| Preceded by "Hole in My Pocket" by Ricky Van Shelton |
RPM Country Tracks number-one single July 10, 1989 |
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