“Save Your Heart” — sometimes given as “Won’t You Save Your Heart for Me” — is a bluegrass song written by Alan Bibey, one of the most respected mandolinists in modern bluegrass and acoustic music. Bibey recorded it for his 2000 album “In the Blue Room.”
The lyric is a rambler’s love song, caught between two pulls. Its narrator admits he is not the staying kind — the highway is always calling — yet he asks the woman he loves to save her heart for him anyway, hoping she might be the reason he finally settles down. That tension between wanderlust and devotion gave the song a wistful honesty.
Bibey, active since the early 1980s and a member of bands including IIIrd Tyme Out and Grasstowne, became known as a writer as well as a player, and “Save Your Heart” is among the original songs he has carried through his career.
