The Shelter of Your Eyes

{{Infobox song

| name = The Shelter Of Your Eyes

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Don Williams

| album = Don Williams Volume One

| B-side = Playin' Around

| released = December 16, 1972

| recorded = 1972

| studio = Jack Clement's Studio, Nashville, Tennessee

| venue =

| genre = Country

| length = 2:55

| label = JMI

| writer = Don Williams

| producer = Allen Reynolds

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Come Early Morning

| next_year = 1973

}}

"The Shelter of Your Eyes" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Don Williams. It was released in December 1972 as his debut single and the first from his album Don Williams Volume One.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Mo7xm-X1r4C&q=the+shelter+of+your+eyes+don+williams&pg=PA509|title=All Music Guide To Country: The Experts' Guide to the Best Recordings in Country Music|last=Erlewine|first=Michael|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|year=1997|isbn=9780879304751|pages=509}} The single release would be the first commercial single released by 1970s country star{{Cite magazine|last=Betts|first=Stephen L.|date=September 8, 2017|title=Don Williams, Country's 'Gentle Giant,' Dead at 78|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/don-williams-countrys-gentle-giant-dead-at-78-202607/|magazine=Rolling Stone}} Don Williams, and it would be a number fourteen country chart hit.{{cite book|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2008|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2|pages=463–464}}

Williams was signed to Jack Clements' J-M-I Records and Jack Music, Inc in 1972 by Allen Reynolds, and Reynolds would go on to produce Williams' entire debut album.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XfzsAgAAQBAJ&q=don+williams|title=Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary|last=Carlin|first=Richard|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=9781135361044|pages=see URL}}

Many of Williams' best known songs would be written by other composers (including Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds and Al Turney) and this single release was notable in that it was one of the few of Williams' self-penned tunes to be a charting single.

The song was also recorded by the singer Lobo for his 1975 album "Just A Singer" on Big Tree Records, which was distributed by Atlantic Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/just-a-singer-mw0000875596|title=Lobo Discography|date=November 24, 2019|website=AllMusic|access-date=November 24, 2019}}

The B-Side "Playin' Around" was re-released on several Don Williams compilation albums throughout the 2000s.