Blame It on Your Heart

"Blame It On Your Heart" is a song written by Harlan Howard and Kostas, and recorded by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was released in April 1993 as the first single from her album Only What I Feel. A cover version by Deborah Allen was featured prominently in the 1993 film The Thing Called Love.

David Keith played the ex-boyfriend in the video.

'Blame It On Your Heart' was also recorded by Heidi Raye and released on Harlan Howard Records.

Content

The song and its video describes an ex-boyfriend who has "a lying, cheating, cold dead-beating, two-timing, double-dealing, mean-mistreating, loving" heart that he should blame for whatever backstabbing he gets from any other woman he does to what he did to its narrator.

Chart performance

The song charted for 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart, reaching No. 1 during the week of June 19, 1993.^[1]

Chart (1993)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[2]	2
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)^[3]	12
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1993)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[5]	18
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[6]	12

Music video

The music video for "Blame It on Your Heart" was directed by Sherman Halsey.

Covers

Allison Iraheta on American Idol Season 8 sang this song during Grand Ole Opry Week.
River Phoenix also performed this song in the 1993 movie, The Thing Called Love, one of his final films before his death.

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 207.
↑ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1005." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. July 10, 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
↑ "Patty Loveless – Chart history" Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 for Patty Loveless.
↑ "Patty Loveless – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Patty Loveless.
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1993". RPM. December 18, 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
↑ "Best of 1993: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1993. Retrieved August 5, 2013.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Preceded by "Should've Been a Cowboy" by Toby Keith	Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks number-one single June 19-June 26, 1993	Succeeded by "That Summer" by Garth Brooks

Patty Loveless
Discography
Patty Loveless	"Lonely Days, Lonely Nights" "Wicked Ways" "I Did" "After All"
If My Heart Had Windows	"You Saved Me" "If My Heart Had Windows" "A Little Bit in Love"
Honky Tonk Angel	"Blue Side of Town" "Don't Toss Us Away" "Timber, I'm Falling in Love" "The Lonely Side of Love" "Chains"
On Down the Line	"On Down the Line" "The Night's Too Long" "I'm That Kind of Girl" "Blue Memories"
Up Against My Heart	"Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way)" "Jealous Bone" "Can't Stop Myself from Loving You"
Only What I Feel	"Blame It on Your Heart" "Nothin' but the Wheel" "You Will" "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye"
When Fallen Angels Fly	"I Try to Think About Elvis" "Here I Am" "You Don't Even Know Who I Am" "Halfway Down"
The Trouble with the Truth	"You Can Feel Bad" "A Thousand Times a Day" "Lonely Too Long" "She Drew a Broken Heart" "The Trouble with the Truth"
Long Stretch of Lonesome	"You Don't Seem to Miss Me" "To Have You Back Again" "High on Love" "Like Water into Wine"
Classics	"Can't Get Enough" "My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man"
Strong Heart	"That's the Kind of Mood I'm In" "The Last Thing on My Mind" "Strong Heart"
Mountain Soul	"The Boys Are Back in Town" "Out of Control Raging Fire"
On Your Way Home	"Lovin' All Night" "On Your Way Home" "I Wanna Believe"
Dreamin' My Dreams	"Keep Your Distance"
Sleepless Nights	"Why Baby Why"
Mountain Soul II	"Busted"
Other albums	Greatest Hits Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas

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