WHEN I STOP DREAMING
(Charlie & Ira Louvin/Acuff-Rose, BMI, 1955)

The worst that I've ever been hurt in my life,
The first time I ever wanted to die,
Was the night when you told me you loved someone else,
And asked me if I could forget.
(Cho.:) When I stop dreaming, that's when I'll stop loving you.

I'd be like a flower unwanted in spring,
Alone and neglected, transplanted in vain
To a garden of sadness where its petals will fall
In the shadow of undying pain. (Cho.)

You can teach the flowers to bloom in the snow.
You may take a pebble and teach it to grow.
You can teach all the raindrops to return to the cloud,
But you can't teach my heart to forget. (Cho. twice)

[As performed by Del McCoury & the Dixie Pals on "High on a Mountain," Rounder 0019 (1972) and on "Songs of the Louvin Brothers," Easydisc ED CD 7034 (1997). JTD]