Come from the Heart
{{Infobox song
| name = Come from the Heart
| cover = Come from the heart kathy.png
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Kathy Mattea
| album = Willow in the Wind
| B-side = True North
| released = April 1989
| format =
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Country
| length = 3:11
| label = Mercury
| writer = Richard Leigh, Susanna Clark
| producer = Allen Reynolds
| prev_title = Life as We Knew It
| prev_year = 1988
| next_title = Burnin' Old Memories
| next_year = 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/search/track/Come+from+the+Heart/order:year-asc | title=Albums containing a track with the title: 'Come From the Heart' | publisher=Allmusic | accessdate=March 23, 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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.{{cite book |title= The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition|last= Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link= Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=217}}
Hard Working Americans (with front man Todd Snider) recorded the song in 2014 as a duet with Rosanne Cash.
Misattribution
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{{cite web | title=Quotes Uncovered: Songs and Dancing | url= http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/quotes-uncovered-songs-and-dancing/ | last= Shapiro |first = Fred | author-link=Fred R. Shapiro | work=Freakonomics blog| publisher=The New York Times| date= July 23, 2009 | accessdate=March 3, 2010}} (e.g. Annie's Mailbox attributes a version of the lyric to a combination of William Watson Purkey and Satchel Paige{{cite web | title=Annie's Mailbox, April 25 | url= http://www.creators.com/advice/annies-mailbox/annie-s-mailbox-april-25.html | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020210520/http://www.creators.com/advice/annies-mailbox/annie-s-mailbox-april-25.html|archivedate=2009-10-20| last1= Mitchell |first1 = Kathy | last2= Sugar|first2=Marcy | work=Annie's Mailbox| publisher=Creators Syndicate| date=April 25, 2006 | accessdate=March 3, 2010 | quote=William Watson Purkey is credited with writing, "Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth." Later, the phrase "Work like you don't need the money" was added, often credited to baseball great Satchel Paige. This poem obviously speaks to a lot of people, because over the years, many others have created their own additions. We think the sentiments are life-affirming.}}). In 2004 in response to an inquiry by a group of librarians Richard Leigh stated
{{Quote|For some reason, people have a great deal of trouble attributing this lyric to its creators: Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh. The reason you can not find any printed or recorded support for these assertions dating back any earlier than our song, is because they don’t exist.... I think the folks out there must be unconsciously disappointed that something that cool came from such ordinary people, so they keep giving it the loftier authorship they believe it deserves.|Richard Leigh{{cite web |url=http://quoteinvestigator.com/about/|title=Dance Like Nobody's Watching|last1=O'Toole |first1=Garson |date= |website=Quote Investigator|publisher=|access-date=26 August 2016|quote=}}}}
Chart performance
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!align="left"|Chart (1989) !align="center"|Peak |
| {{singlechart|Canadacountry|1|chartid=6383|publishdate=July 10, 1989|accessdate=August 28, 2013}} |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|1|artist=Kathy Mattea}} |
=Year-end charts=
References
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{{Kathy Mattea songs}}
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Category:Songs written by Richard Leigh (songwriter)