When I Stop Dreaming by The Louvin Brothers
Composed by by Ira and Charlie Louvin
LP:  Handpicked Songs 1955-1962 (Capitol Nashville)
(c) The Light in the Attic, CargoRecordsGermany
Stanrdard Tuning
Key: G


[Intro]
           
When I stop dr

eaming
            
That's when I'

            
ll stop loving

 
 you


[Verse 1]
             
The worst that

             
 I've ever bee

  
n hurt in my l

ife
           
The first time

             
 I ever have w

         
anted to die
             
Was the night 

         
when you told 

me
    
You loved some

one else
             
And asked me i

          
f I could forg

et


[Bridge]
           
When I stop dr

eaming
            
That's when I'

            
ll stop loving

 
 you


[Verse 2]

I'd be like a 

flower unwante

d in spring
            
Alone and negl

             
ected transpla

        
nted in vain
             
To a garden of

            
 sadness where

     
 its petals wi

ll fall
            
In the shadows

            
 of undying pa

in


[Bridge]
           
When I stop dr

eaming
             
That's when I'

            
ll stop thinki

      
ng of you


[Verse 3]

You may teach 

the flowers to

 bloom in the 

snow
            
You may take a

             
 pebble and te

          
ach it to grow
             
You may teach 

            
all the raindr

       
ops to return 

to the clouds
            
But you can't 

              
teach my heart

    
 to forget


[Outro]
           
When I stop dr

eaming
            
That's when I'

              
ll stop crying

            
 for you