Lay Back Lover Song Lyrics and Chords by Dottie West
Lay Back Lover
Recorded by Dottie West
Written by Rafe Van Hoy and Steve Pippin
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Why don't we
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lay back lover
And hold on to each
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other
And let
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love take
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over from
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here
We've done the best we could to keep love burning
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There's not a thing we haven't
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trie
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But just like children we're still learning
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The ways to keep our love
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aliv
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e
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We've spent too many days searching for some magic way
And
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overlooked the thing that was so
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near
So come on
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lay back
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lover
And
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hold on to each
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other
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love take
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over from
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here
It's time we rea
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lized that love is
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easy
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It's not that hard to under
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stand
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If we want
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love with rhyme and
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reason
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We've got to do it hand in
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hand
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There's no sense wasting time
Tryin' to plan love line by line
When
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all we've ever needed is right
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here
If we just
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lay back
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lover
And
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hold on to each
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other
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love take
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over from
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here
Well you know love was always standing by
And looking us right in the eye
Oh
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can't you hear it whispering in your
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ear
For us to
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lay back
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lover
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hold on to each
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other
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love take
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over from
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here
So come on lay back lover
And hold on to each
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other
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love take
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over from
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here
FAQ
Who sang the the song Lay Back Lover?
- The song Lay Back Lover was sang by Dottie West.
Who is Dottie West?
- Dorothy "Dottie" Marie Marsh West (October 11, 1932 - September 4, 1991) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Along with her friends and fellow recording artists Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, she is considered one of the genre's most influential and groundbreaking female artists. West's career started in the 1960s, with her top-10 hit, "Here Comes My Baby Back Again", which won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1965, the first woman in country music to receive a Grammy.
In the early 1970s, West wrote a popular commercial for the Coca-Cola company, titled "Country Sunshine", which reached number two on Billboard's Hot Country Singles in 1973. In the late 1970s, she teamed up with country pop superstar Kenny Rogers for a series of duets, which took her career to new highs, earning platinum-selling albums and number-one records for the first time.
Her duet recordings with Rogers, "Every Time Two Fools Collide", "All I Ever Need Is You", and "What Are We Doin' in Love", became country music standards. In the mid-1970s, her image and music underwent a metamorphosis, bringing her to the peak of her popularity as a solo act, and reaching number one on her own for the first time in 1980 with "A Lesson in Leavin'".
In 2018, West was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
