"Come from the Heart" is a country music song written by Richard Leigh and Susanna Clark and published in 1987.

[2] Hard Working Americans (with front man Todd Snider) recorded the song in 2014 as a duet with Rosanne Cash.

In 2004 in response to an inquiry by a group of librarians Richard Leigh stated For some reason, people have a great deal of trouble attributing this lyric to its creators: Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh.

The reason you can not find any printed or recorded support for these assertions dating back any earlier than our song, is because they don’t exist....

I think the folks out there must be unconsciously disappointed that something that cool came from such ordinary people, so they keep giving it the loftier authorship they believe it deserves.