Dave & Sugar – The Door is Always Open, is a country song written by Dickey Lee and Bob McDill. First recorded by Tennessee Pulleybone for JMI Records, it went to number 75 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1973. A version by Lois Johnson, also in 1975, went to number 70 on the country music chart.

It was the Dave & Sugar version, released in 1976, that was released to radio and became known to audiences. That July, the song was the group’s first number one hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.

Dave & Sugar – The Door is Always Open
from the album Dave & Sugar
B-side «Late Nite Country Lovin’ Music»
Released April 1976
Recorded January 22, 1976
Studio RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Country
Length 2:41
Label RCA
Songwriter(s) Dickey Lee, Bob McDill
Producer(s) Jerry Bradley, Charley Pride

COUNTRYPEDIA

Dave & Sugar – The Door is Always Open Lyrics

Yes the door is always open and the light’s on in the hall
And you know that I’ll be waiting when you finally come to call

Saw your picture in the paper and I see you’ve married good
And I know that he can give you all the things I never could
But I know that he won’t give me what I need most of all
Well the door is always open and the light’s on in the hall
Yes the door is always open…

When night falls on that mansion and you’re lying in his bed
When he begs for your attention will you think of me instead
And when he reaches out to touch me with a face turned to the wall
Yes the door is always open and the light’s on in the hall
Yes the door is always open…
Yes the door is always open…

GENIUS