Released: March 23, 1981
Songwriter: Mike Settle
When the morning sun streaks across my room
And I'm wakin' up from another dream of you
Yes, you know I'm on the road once again it seems
All that's left behind is a chain of broken dreams
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh, I love you
And how I wish that love was all we'd need to live
What a life we'd have 'cause I've got so much to give
But you know I feel so sad down inside my heart
That the dollar signs should be keeping us apart
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh, how I love you
And if only I could find my way back to the time
When the problems of this life had not yet crossed my mind
And the answers could be found in children's nursery rhymes
I'd come running back to you, I'd come running back to you
But you know we can't live on dreams alone
Got to pay the rent, so I must leave you all alone
'Cause you know I made my choice many years ago
And now this traveling life, well, it's the only life I know
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh, I love you
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh, how I love you
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh, how I love you
But you know I love you
But you know I love you
Oh, I love you
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh how I love you
And I'm wakin' up from another dream of you
Yes, you know I'm on the road once again it seems
All that's left behind is a chain of broken dreams
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh, I love you
And how I wish that love was all we'd need to live
What a life we'd have 'cause I've got so much to give
But you know I feel so sad down inside my heart
That the dollar signs should be keeping us apart
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh, how I love you
And if only I could find my way back to the time
When the problems of this life had not yet crossed my mind
And the answers could be found in children's nursery rhymes
I'd come running back to you, I'd come running back to you
But you know we can't live on dreams alone
Got to pay the rent, so I must leave you all alone
'Cause you know I made my choice many years ago
And now this traveling life, well, it's the only life I know
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh, I love you
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh, how I love you
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh, how I love you
But you know I love you
But you know I love you
Oh, I love you
But you know that I love you
You know that I love you
Oh how I love you
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- Light Of A Clear Blue Morning
- Starting Over Again
- Old Flames (Can’t Hold a Candle to You)
- Heartbreak Express
- But You Know I Love You
- Single Women
- Save the Last Dance for Me
- Tennesssee Homesick Blues
- You’re the Only One
- God Won’t Get You
- Why’d You Come In Here Lookin’ Like That
- Rockin’ Years
- Shine
- Islands in the Stream
- To Know Him Is to Love Him
- Mule Skinner Blues
- Heartbreaker
- I Really Got the Feeling
- Two Doors Down
- Coat of Many Colors
- Dumb Blonde
- Just Because I’m a Woman
- My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
- Joshua
- Touch Your Woman
- Love Is Like a Butterfly
- The Bargain Store
- My Tennessee Mountain Home
- Jolene
- We Used To
- The Seeker
- All I Can Do
- Here You Come Again
- I Will Always Love You
- It’s All Wrong, But It’s All Right
- Please Don’t Stop Loving Me
- 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs (1980)
- The Essential Dolly Parton (2005)
- Jolene
- 9 to 5
- Coat of Many Colors
- I Will Always Love You
- Just Because I’m a Woman
- Here You Come Again
- From Here to the Moon and Back
- Cracker Jack
- Girl in the Movies
- Dumb Blonde
- Rockin’ Years
- Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
- Little Sparrow
- Here I Am
- The Bridge
- The Little Drummer Boy
- Before the Next Teardrop Falls
- Two Doors Down
- Red Shoes
- When Life Is Good Again
- Me and Little Andy
- Hard Candy Christmas
- Eagle When She Flies
- Joshua