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How Blue

Reba McEntire
Track 1 on My Kind of Country 

Producer

Harold Shedd
How Blue topped Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart for a week in January of 1985, becoming Reba McEntire’s third number-one hit on the chart.
Sep. 24, 19841 viewer

How Blue Lyrics

[Chorus]
How blue (How blue) can you make me?
How long until I heal?
How can I go on loving you when you're gone?
How blue
(How blue) can I feel?

[Verse 1]
Oh, honey, why did you leave me?
Don't you have a heart left in your chest
I swear to you that I'm dying
Because my mind won't let my body rest

[Chorus]
How blue (How blue) can you make me?
How long until I heal?
How can I go on loving you when you're gone?
How blue
(How blue) can I feel?

[Verse 2]
If I sink any lower
I'll go under
If I cry anymore
I'll go blind
No, there's no relief for this missing you grief
How long can you torture my mind?
[Chorus]
How blue (How blue) can you make me?
How long until I heal?
How can I go on loving you when you're gone?
How blue
(How blue) can I feel?

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How Blue topped Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart for a week in January of 1985, becoming Reba McEntire’s third number-one hit on the chart.

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My Kind of Country (1984)
Reba McEntire
  1. 1.
    How Blue
  2. 2.
    That’s What He Said
  3. 3.
    I Want to Hear It From You
  4. 4.
    It’s Not Over (If I’m Not Over You)
  5. 5.
    Somebody Should Leave
  6. 6.
    Everything But My Heart
  7. 7.
    Don’t You Believe Him
  8. 8.
    Before I Met You
  9. 9.
    He’s Only Everything
  10. 10.
    You’ve Got Me (Right Where You Want Me)
Credits
Producer
Writer
Recorded At
Sound Stage Studios, Nashville, TN
Release Date
September 24, 1984
Tags
Country
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