"Come from the Heart" is a country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 song written by Richard Leigh

Richard Leigh (songwriter)

Richard Leigh is an American country music songwriter and singer. He is best known for penning "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" . In 1978 he received a Grammy Award for "Best Country Song" for the popular song...

 and Susanna Clark

Susanna Clark

Susanna Clark may refer to:* Susanna Clark, American songwriter and wife of Guy Clark* Susanna Clarke, British novelist...

 and published in 1987. It is most widely known through the 1989 single by Kathy Mattea

Kathy Mattea

Kathleen Alice "Kathy" Mattea is an American country music and bluegrass performer who often brings folk, Celtic and traditional country sounds to her music. Active since 1983 as a recording artist, she has recorded seventeen albums and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot...

, released in conjunction with her album Willow in the Wind

Willow in the Wind

Willow in the Wind is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. It was released in 1989 on Mercury Records. The album is her highest-peaking entry on the Top Country Albums charts, where it reached #6. It was also certified gold by the RIAA...

, though the song was first recorded and released on the 1987 Don Williams album

Don Williams discography

This is a detailed discography for American country music artist Don Williams.-1960s albums:-1970s albums:-1980s albums:-1990s albums:-2000s albums:- Compilation albums :-1970s singles:-1980s singles:-1990s singles:-B-sides:...

 Traces and also released in 1988 by Clark's husband

Guy Clark

Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....

 on his album Old Friends

Old Friends (Guy Clark album)

Old Friends is an album by American singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released in 1988.-Track listing:# "Old Friends" – 3:12# "Hands" – 2:22...

.

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

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attributes as the source for various similar aphorism

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s sometimes attributed to others (e.g. Annie's Mailbox attributes a version of the lyric to a combination of William Watson Purkey

William Watson Purkey

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 and Satchel Paige

Satchel Paige

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige was an American baseball player whose pitching in the Negro leagues and in Major League Baseball made him a legend in his own lifetime...

).

Mattea's single was her third number one on the country chart

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

, spending 14 weeks on that chart including a single week at the top..

Chart performance

Chart (1989)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks	1
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	1