Maggie's Dream (song) - Misplaced Pages

"Maggie's Dream" is a song written by Dave Loggins and Lisa Silver, and recorded by American country music artist Don Williams. It was released in September 1984 as the second single from the album Cafe Carolina. The song reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was covered by Trisha Yearwood on the 2017 Williams tribute album Gentle Giants: The Music of Don Williams.

Content

The song is about a waitress named Maggie, who has been single her entire life. On the surface, she seems content in her job as a truckstop waitress, having made many friendships with the truck drivers that have been customers through the years. Deep down she is lonely, having never had a true love, and dreams one day of becoming a wife and traveling beyond the mountains around Asheville (which an omniscient observer notes "she's never seen the other side), and takes solace in playing sad songs on the jukebox.

Chart performance

Chart (1984)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)	11
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	13

References

Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 386.
"Don Williams Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

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Singles	"The Shelter of Your Eyes" "Come Early Morning" "Atta Way to Go" "We Should Be Together" "I Wouldn't Want to Live If You Didn't Love Me" "The Ties That Bind" "You're My Best Friend" "(Turn Out the Light And) Love Me Tonight" "'Til the Rivers All Run Dry" "Say It Again" "I Recall a Gypsy Woman" "She Never Knew Me" "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend" "I'm Just a Country Boy" "I've Got a Winner in You" "Rake and Ramblin' Man" "Tulsa Time" "Lay Down Beside Me" "It Must Be Love" "Love Me Over Again" "Good Ole Boys Like Me" "I Believe In You" "Falling Again" "Miracles" "If I Needed You" (with Emmylou Harris) "Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good" "Listen to the Radio" "Mistakes" "If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)" "Love Is on a Roll" "Nobody but You" "Stay Young" "That's the Thing About Love" "Maggie's Dream" "Walkin' a Broken Heart" "It's Time for Love" "We've Got a Good Fire Goin''" "Heartbeat in the Darkness" "Then It's Love" "Señorita" "I'll Never Be in Love Again" "I Wouldn't Be a Man" "Another Place, Another Time" "Desperately" "Old Coyote Town" "One Good Well" "I've Been Loved by the Best" "Just as Long as I Have You" "Maybe That's All It Takes" "Back in My Younger Days" "True Love" "Lord Have Mercy on a Country Boy"
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