When I Stop Dreaming Lyrics
(C. Louvin, J. Louvin)
Spoken:
When I was about fourteen years old, I was a water-boy on the river crew. The Tyran's River ran right through Mississippi County, Arkansas, where I lived. And I got a job for three dollars a day, carrying water to all the workmen that where cleaning out the river, the dredging crew. And they say, there was a cotton-mouse marks in every square yard. On the banks of the Tyran's River, I saw some mighty big ones. But the thing that stuck with me about that job on that river crew was that every at one o'clock, no matter where I was, no matter what I was supposed to being giving water to the workmen or where I was supposed to be, I was hiding up in one of the workmen's cars, listening to the radio in the car, because coming from my Memphis Radio Station, there was a group called "The Lonesome Valley Trio".
That was Smiling Eddy Hill and Ira and Charley, the Louvin Brothers, singing those gospel songs. How I loved it. Years later, I finally got to meet Ira and Charley, even worked with them - Eddy Hill. And some great talents and some great songs came out of the minds of all three of those people. One of the best songs, I think the Louvin Brothers ever wrote, was "When I Stop Dreaming".
Sung:
The worst that I've ever been hurt in my life
The first time, I ever have wanted to die
Was the night when you told me you loved someone else
And you asked me if I could forget
When I stop dreaming
That's when I'll stop loving you
You may teach a flower, to bloom in the snow
You may take a pebble and teach it to grow
You may teach all the raindrops to return to the clouds
But you can't teach my heart to forget
When I stop dreaming
That's when I'll stop loving you
