Her Hello Was My Goodbye Song Lyrics and Chords by Dottie West
Her Hello Was My Goodbye
Recorded by Dottie West
Written by Quinn Garton
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She only
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smiled and said hello
But your
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eyes were
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stars
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And I
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knew her
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hello was my
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goodbye
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She held your
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hand a bit too long
As I
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stood there
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lookin'
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I watched you
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I watched you fall in
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love
Was it the
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time was it the place
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was it her pretty face
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held you like a moth around the
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flame
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Though it's hard to realize
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I know my eyes
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don't
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fact remains you
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love her just the
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same
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In a
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twinkle of an eye
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My dream world
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fell from the sky
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I knew her
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hello was my good
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bye
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I know
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you'll try hard to explain
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won't you please
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fail me the pain
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I knew her
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hello was my good
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bye
FAQ
Who sang the the song Her Hello Was My Goodbye?
- The song Her Hello Was My Goodbye 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.
