Jack Greene – There Goes My Everything

“There Goes My Everything” is a popular song written by Dallas Frazier and published in 1965. The song is best known in a 1966 version by Jack Greene whose version spent seven weeks at the top of the US country music chart, with a total of twenty-one weeks on the chart. It peaked at 65 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also won several awards, including “Single of the Year” and “Song of the Year” at the very first CMA Awards presentation. In addition, the accompanying album of the same title won “Album of the Year”, and Greene won “Male Vocalist of the Year”. “There Goes My Everything” is now considered a country music standard, covered by many artists.

B-side “Hardest Easy Thing”
Released October 1966
Genre Country
Label Decca
Songwriter(s) Dallas Frazier
Producer(s) Owen Bradley

Jack Greene – There Goes My Everything lyrics

There goes my only possession
There goes my everything

I hear footsteps slowly walking
As they gently walk across a lonely floor
And a voice is softly saying
Darling, this will be goodbye forever more

There goes my reason for living
There goes the one of my dreams
There goes my only possession
There goes my everything

As my memory turns back the pages
I can see the happy tears we had before
Now the love that kept this old heart beating
Has been shattered by the closing of the door

There goes my reason for living
There goes the one of my dreams
There goes my only possession
There goes my everything