| Blame It on Your Heart | |
| Cover: | Blame It on Your Heart.jpg |
| Caption: | Cassette single cover |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Patty Loveless |
| Album: | Only What I Feel |
| B-Side: | What's a Broken Heart |
| Released: | April 3, 1993 |
| Recorded: | 1993 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 3:34 |
| Label: | Epic |
| Producer: | Emory Gordy Jr. |
| Prev Title: | Send a Message to My Heart |
| Prev Year: | 1992 |
| Next Title: | Nothin' but the Wheel |
| Next Year: | 1993 |
"Blame It on Your Heart" is a song written by Harlan Howard and Kostas and recorded by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was released in April 1993 as the first single from her album Only What I Feel. A cover version by Deborah Allen was featured prominently in the 1993 film The Thing Called Love.
David Keith played the ex-boyfriend in the video.
"Blame It on Your Heart" was also recorded by Heidi Raye and released on Harlan Howard Records.
The song and its video describe an ex-boyfriend who has a "lying, cheating, cold dead-beating, two-timing, double-dealing, mean-mistreating, loving" heart that he should blame for whatever backstabbing he gets from any other woman he does to what he did to its narrator.[1]
In 2024, Rolling Stone ranked the song at number 147 on its 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time ranking.[2]
The song charted for 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart, reaching number 1 during the week of June 19, 1993.[3]
| Chart (1993) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[4] | 18 | |
| US Country Songs (Billboard)[5] | 12 |
The music video for "Blame It on Your Heart" was directed by Sherman Halsey, and premiered in early 1993.